First alpha for Tiny Core Linux 16.0 dropped yesterday...

[MikeRocor]

... and I'm all excited about it.

tc@dolly:~$ neofetch
                                                                                
    0000                   Host: dolly 
   00                      Model: HP ENVY x360 Convertible 
  00     00                OS: TinyCoreLinux 16.0alpha1 x86_64 
  00     00  0000          Kernel: 6.12.11-tinycore64 
   00                      Uptime: 4 hours, 43 mins 
    0000                   Packages: 279 (tce-status) 
      00  0000             Shell: sh 
     00  00  00            Resolution: , 1920x1080 
    00  00    00           WM: JWM 
   00  00      00          Terminal: /dev/pts/1 
  00  00        00         CPU: Intel i5-6200U (4) @ 2.800GHz 
  00  00        00         GPU: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520] 
               00          Memory: 1660MiB / 11908MiB 
  00  00      00    (°-    Disk (/mnt/sdb1): 95.9G / 3.6T (3%) 
   0000      00     //\    tce dir: /mnt/sdb1/boot/core16.0a1/tce64 
    00  0000  0000  v_/_   Local IP: 10.0.0.6

 

[KGIII]

Just an FYI. Ye old neofetch is dead. Long live the king.

Neofetch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[MikeRocor]

Just an FYI. Ye old neofetch is dead. Long live the king.

Neofetch - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Bummer about that. I only started using it around New Years and I kind of like it.

I started a project to really inventory all the junk computers I have with an eye toward deciding which to keep and which to shotcan (or donate) so I put together a "sysreports" script to run a suite of system info programs and log their output to text files in my "postit note" system. The reports include lsusb, lspci, lshw, /proc/cpuinfo, /proc/meminfo, dmidecode, hardinfo, inxi, neofetch and various info about the storage from fdisk -l, blkid and df ... basically so I can look up anything I might want to know about a system without having to fire it up again.

While neofetch doesn't provide the comprehensive details that, for instance, hardinfo and lshw do, it's a nice synopsis and is a bit more visually appealing to the eye.

I hadn't known that neofetch was discontinued but, in as much as it's just a bash script it doesn't seem to outrageous to keep it around.

I originally started hacking on it to make it suit my own purposes - until I realized just how customizable it is via its "config.conf" file. Then I reverted back to the stock script and put together a nice config file (and slapped myself around a bit for not rtfm in the first place).

But in that little digression, I found that fully half of neofetch's 10417 lines of script are devoted to help text (265 lines) and all those ascii art logos (that still only include the more popular ones - even though there's a facility for getting the ascii art from an external file (which I had to create for the Tiny Core logo)).

I could imagine myself cutting out -all- the logos to external files and debashifying the rest so it could run on busybox ash ('cause I usually don't have bash loaded and it seems dumb to have a dependency on that). I could also imagine myself just continuing to use it as-is.

 

[KGIII]

Bummer about that. I only started using it around New Years and I kind of like it.

There are a zillion other *fetch options, so it should be easy to find a replacement. The venerable screenfetch is still available.

While neofetch doesn't provide the comprehensive details that, for instance, hardinfo and lshw do, it's a nice synopsis and is a bit more visually appealing to the eye.

If you're not already familiar, give inxi a try.

 

[MikeRocor]

Hmmm... inxi is already on my list but I hadn't heard of screenfetch before. Ima look into that one.

 

[MikeRocor]

Ok then. Now I have screenfetch 3.9.9 in my arsenal as well. I haven't played with it enough to decide if it will be a go-to utility for that sort of thing.

 

[theLegionWithin]

i've been using fastfetch

 

[MikeRocor]

Tiny Core 16 advanced from alpha to beta status yesterday. Yay!

tc@dolly:~$ neofetch
                                                                                
    0000                   Host: dolly
   00                      Model: HP ENVY x360 Convertible
  00     00                OS: TinyCoreLinux 16.0beta1 x86_64
  00     00  0000          Kernel: 6.12.11-tinycore64
   00                      Uptime: 1 hour, 40 mins
    0000                   Packages: 308 (tce-status)
      00  0000             Shell: sh
     00  00  00            Resolution: , 1920x1080
    00  00    00           WM: JWM
   00  00      00          Terminal: aterm
  00  00        00         CPU: Intel i5-6200U (4) @ 2.800GHz
  00  00        00         GPU: Intel Skylake GT2 [HD Graphics 520]
               00          Memory: 1499MiB / 11908MiB
  00  00      00    (°-    Disk (/mnt/sdb1): 99.3G / 3.6T (3%)
   0000      00     //\    tce dir: /mnt/sdb1/boot/core16.0a1/tce64
    00  0000  0000  v_/_   Local IP: 192.168.1.109