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  cas
  A very clever immutable Linux distro, and is the basis for the excellent PiCorePlayer, a favourite of mine to run Squeezebox clients (and/or Lyrion music server) on any Pihttps://picoreplayer.org/
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  eccgecko
  Would it be possible to boot into this from an existing system and use PiCore to take a full system backup by piping dd to nc?After reading https://askubuntu.com/questions/1416758/remote-full-system-b... I’ve been debating whether to try this out on some of my live headless pi’s that I manage remotely, but have been worried to try it without a test system first.Seems like booting into PiCore could be perfect for this scenario. You could even use some of the A/B try-boot functionality that rpi have introduced into the bootloader over the past year, and basically have a kind of live recovery os. Would love to know if that could be possible.Been mulling this over for the past couple weeks and then this HN post about PiCore pops-up literally day I was going over that askubuntu post again! I’m taking it as a sign…..
• alsetmusic
  TinyCoreLinux has had a special place in my heart for years. This makes me wanna break out some of the pis from nerdy storage bins.
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  weikju
  If only TinyCore’s design sensibilities had garnered more attention over the ostree monstrosity
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  packetlost
  Note: this readme appears to be from a very old version (5.x)
• worksonmine
  Cool project, but they should really upgrade at least the downloads to https...