There was also the trial-and-error joy of fiddling with video timing to get X-Windows working. It really makes me appreciate the modern Linux installation process. Architectures older than that 2. And hoo.. I sort of agree with you, sort of not. As for the real issue, I believe the internet is even slower than it used to be with no real benefit. Common sites literally cannot be loaded at all in some areas due to the massive latency problems, while a pure html site would work eventually.
Honestly, booting Linux off an SD card from even a Pi Zero is faster than booting Linux off of a with a hard disk from the era, nevermind booting from floppy! An entire graphic OS booted from an KB, 3. I once had a PC with some flavor of Windows 95 on it that was fully booted and ready to use in 45 seconds. I doubt it gets through the POST in 45 seconds. I had some extra money so I splashed it on almost the best that was available at the time. Wow, somethings up with that system.
My three year old Ubuntu install laptop boots in about 6 seconds. Faster than CUPS can spin up. Plus mandatory updates. Then the mandatory Edge introduction. Then a wait as it steals data from firefox. You could even compile the framebuffer support in your kernel to get the pinguin logo when booting, and you could play some games in console fbdoom anyone?
However 3 years earlier 1MB were 50 a piece. You needed a boot floppy as well. Boot the boot floppy, then feed in the 13 floppies and create a system boot floppy. Yeah, it was a process. I was so happy when we started getting CDs from Walnut Creek. Boot the boot floppy, then point to the CD for the rest of the install. Still have a number of those CDs kicking around somewhere. The payoff? I had a running Win3.
Surprisingly, to me, at least, it still does. A lot of us OFs hang around here. You can tell by the stories they share. Pull up a rocker, but please use the cuspidor when expectorating. They call it i, but actual support was dropped a while ago A quick google search says they announced it in Dec , with kernel 3.
Yes indeed I just checked my old Yggdrasil images and the support is not there any more! How did that happen? Maybe someone snuck into my house and swapped out the disks? Yeah, I just remembered the same thing and googled it as well. Apparently ditching the old code removed a lot of cruft. All I used it for was as a terminal to connect to my main Linux box in the other room. Even with no GUI it took it forever to boot. The is the oldest processor supported by the modern kernel, but most distributions do not support it for their software packages.
I remember doing a zipslack install on my desktop pc in took forever to download that over 56k, if you were lucky you could download 1mb in minutes that mb ….. Remember the LDP? It had busybox and started up right into a script that mounted a CD-ROM, partitioned and formatted the hard drive and unpacked a tar file from the CD onto the hard drive. It even ran lilo. It was an auto-restore solution. The idea was always to make an image of that floppy and use it to make the CD itself bootable but for some reason I could never make that work.
It must have been quite the cut down build! I think it was a tight fit in the mid 90s. It was recommended to compile your own kernel with the modules you needed to save space, particularly if you needed to support only one or two storage interfaces, but had a bunch of other stuff you needed compiled in. Panasonic, Mitsumi, and IDE all used the same 40 wire cable. Sony of course had to be their own kind of special with a cable with fewer wires. The main thing that all did was make sound cards with support for the three proprietary or them plus IDE cost a lot more.
Less common was a soundcard with SCSI. Getting modern Linux squeezed on the floppy must have been fun! Does bring back memories of downloading Slack onto a stack of floppies… Then hoping that you could get through loading them without an error….
I assume best intent for both the developer and HAD team, but for an international audience this is no different to renaming the Redskins or Indian sporting teams. I assume they used it in the lower case sense, even though it it upper cased as the proper name of the distribution. Interesting, and thanks. As a non-Australian I was unaware that the word carries connotations beyond the descriptive for Australians. Maybe that criticism should be taken up with the author of that distribution?
If you don't see your device here, tap Scan on the top-right to scan your surroundings again. You can refer to your new Bluetooth device's user manual for specific instructions. This will usually require pressing twice or pressing and holding the Power button on the Bluetooth device. If you're prompted, enter the verification code from your Bluetooth device to your Android. Method 5. Find a USB port on your computer. Turn off all other Bluetooth devices around you.
If you have any Bluetooth-enabled device lying around, it may automatically detect and connect to your dongle adapter. Plug your Bluetooth dongle into a USB port on your computer. The dongle should fit snugly into a free, unobstructed USB port. Install your dongle adapter's required software to your computer. Make sure to check your Bluetooth dongle's user manual, and install all the required software to run it on your computer.
The required software will vary between different models and manufacturers. You can usually find the required software on the website of your Bluetooth adapter's manufacturer.
You may be able to find it on the manufacturer's Downloads or Drivers page. Enable Bluetooth on the device you want to connect to your dongle. If you want to connect a Bluetooth device to your computer via your Bluetooth adapter, make sure your device is turned on, and in pairing mode. Pairing mode instructions will be different for every device. You may be required to press twice or press and hold the Power button on your new Bluetooth device.
Make sure to refer to your Bluetooth device's user manual for specific pairing mode instructions. Connect to your Bluetooth device via your dongle adapter. Some Bluetooth adapters will automatically connect to the first Bluetooth device around, while others require you to use desktop software to set up a connection. If your dongle adapter requires a desktop software for connection, you can open the software on your computer, and select the device you want to connect in the app.
Method 6. Click Device Manager on the menu. This will open your computer's Device Manager panel in a new window. Right-click your current Bluetooth adapter. Find your Bluetooth driver under the Bluetooth heading in Device Manager, and right-click on it to see your options. This will usually be Qualcomm, Atheros, or Broadcom. These are the three most common Bluetooth drivers for Windows. Click Update driver software on the right-click menu. This will open your update options in a new dialogue box.
Select Search automatically for updated driver software in the pop-up. Windows will automatically search online for the latest available update for your Bluetooth adapter and install it on your computer.
If you're prompted, confirm the driver installation. Alternatively, you can go to your PC manufacturer's website, and download the latest Bluetooth driver for your computer here. This may download an executable EXE file or a group of individual driver files. If you download an EXE, you can just run it on your computer to install. If you download a group of drive files, you can select Browse my computer for driver software in the Update window here, and manually select the location of the downloaded driver files.
Click Close in the installation window. You'll see a message saying "Windows has successfully updated your driver software" when your installation is finished.
Click this button to close the installer, and use Bluetooth. Method 7. Click the Download button. This is a blue button towards the top of the page. It will download the Bluetooth installer file "BluetoothUpdate1. Launch the "BluetoothUpdate1. Find the DMG installer file in your computer's Downloads folder, and double-click on its icon to start the installer.
This will open the DMG installer's contents in a new window. Double-click the "BluetoothUpdate1. This item looks like a package icon in the installer DMG. This will open the Bluetooth Update Installer in a new pop-up. So let's give it a go. As you may expect, Tiny Core starts up at lightning speed.
After a few kernel messages, you'll see a flash and then the "desktop. At the bottom of the screen, you'll find a simple dock with a few icons in it for shutting down the distro, opening the control panel, and launching apps more on that in a moment.
For such a streamlined distro, you may expect to use the command line for all configuration jobs, but the control panel includes various rather ugly but functional little tools for configuring the wired network, setting the date and time, and managing system services.
Together with the included text editor and terminal, these tools make the distro quite usable out of the box — it isn't just a tech demo that shows X and does nothing else Figure 1. So how does all this fit into 16MB? Under the hood, the supplied Linux kernel is rather limited when it comes to features and modules — hence why there's no WiFi support by default. The biggest space saver, though, is simply the lack of supplied software. With Tiny Core Linux, you're given the absolute bare essentials of a graphical operating system.
Where you go from there is completely up to you, which makes the distro ideal for setting up a web kiosk, for instance, where you don't want users to have access to anything other than a web browser. It's also a useful distro for schools, where you also want a very specific set of software installed. Of course, many other distros let you fine-tune the range of installed software, but with most of them you spend more time removing unwanted stuff.
So, how do you install additional software? Click the Apps button in the dock at the bottom of the screen, and a dialog box will appear asking if you want Tiny Core to find the fastest mirror server for downloading packages — so click Yes. After a few moments, the main application browser window appears; it's rather spartan by default and doesn't show any available software, but you can fix that by clicking Apps in the top-left to open a menu.
Then, go to Cloud Remote and Browse. You can also search for specific packages using the bar at the top. For example, to install Dillo [4] , a super slimline and somewhat feature-lacking web browser that's built with FLTK, type dillo into the search bar, hit Enter, and then select the result in the left-hand panel. Then click the Go button at the bottom of the window, and Tiny Core will download and install Dillo into RAM so nothing is written to the hard drive at this point.
With a decent Internet connection, this should only take a few seconds, and once the process has completed, you'll see a new icon in the right-hand side of the dock to launch Dillo. You can also launch programs by right-clicking on the desktop and going into the Applications menu that appears.
For basic browsing tasks, such as reading Wikipedia Figure 3 , it does a decent job and is much more suitable than Firefox which is also available as a Tiny Core package on very old hardware or machines with limited RAM. You can stick with FLTK apps to conserve resources, and while many of them look clunky and dated, they handle the basics. Some examples worth checking out include Fluff a file manager , flPicSee an image viewer , and Flit an applet tray that provides battery information and a clock — run it from a terminal.
To explore more FLTK software, check out the wiki [5]. To do this, first install tc-install-GUI via the Apps program, as described earlier in this tutorial.
A new tc-install icon will be added to the dock at the bottom, so click it to start the installer. I won't go through every step of the installation process here, because it's already described in great detail on the installation page [6].
Another useful resource as you explore Tiny Core in greater depth is the Core book, Into the Core, which is available both in PDF and printed formats [7]. If you're looking for something that has slightly more features than Tiny Core Linux — at least, in its freshly booted state — then it's worth investigating Damn Small Linux.
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