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Technology/TinyCore Linux, (sdf.org), 05/10/2019
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I have a thin client with a 1GB soldered-on disk, which I 
picked up from a thrift store a couple years back for a few 
bucks. It's a neat little machine, but it requires an OS 
that isn't a hog (as most modern ones are.) Enter TinyCore 
linux...

Previously I had installed TinyCore 7. They're at 10 now, 
and I wanted to upgrade, but to be honest, the upgrade path 
wasn't very clear. My main reason for the upgrade was 
improvements in the wireless drivers, I can't speak to any 
other gains.

Today I finally just wiped the disk and re-installed TC10 
from scratch. It was fairly smooth, but there were a few 
gotchas:

 1. TinyCore 10 (I used the CorePlus version) has some sort
    of timeout loading packages at boot. My external DVD
    drive was too slow, and it dumped me at a prompt with
    nothing useful loaded, and no indication that there
    was a problem, except that nothing worked. The solution
    was to add a waitusb=10 line to the options at boot 
    time. Problem 100% solved.

 2. Video didn't work with the mode I installed with. It
    failed gracefully and asked me for another mode, which
    I input. I then had to update the option in 
    /mnt/sda1/tce/boot/... something. It's in there, a cfg 
    file. I don't know if there's a utility to updated it,
    I just did it in vi.

Other than that, everything worked like a charm. Wifi is a 
lot more stable (so far, I've only tested a little, but it 
was dying every few minutes before.) Packages were as easy 
to install as before. All in all, it's a rockin' OS if 
you've got a very small amount of space available. I'd love 
to hear of other/better options, if anyone has them!