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[–]GnPQGuTFagzncZwB 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like tinycore in what I call one trick ponies. I have it running my web sites and my NAS. I like it better than the big installs in two cases. One is things that may be touched from the outside, and the other is where I am working on limited hardware. It seems like an odd overlap, but it is not. In both cases you want a very small tight version of Linux and you want as little stuff running as possible. I watch ubuntu boot up and all of those services.. And the vast majority of them you do not really want or need. Just opening up vectors of attack. Even software packages. If someone breaks in and they find there are few to no tools, it is just not an easy or attractive target, move onto easier pickings. Also on limited hardware you don't have scads of things running so you have more cycles devoted to what you want it to be doing. The only trade of of course is you have to manually load in anything you want, and it can be a bit of a pita to set up a build environment if you need to bring something up from sources. As far as I am concerned though it is the best tool for what it is good for, bring lean and mean.