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Don't use Tiny Core Linux. The wiki is a mess of articles for two different versions, neither of which is the current one. Sign-up to the forum has been broken for years and the owner seems to like it that way because the same happened when he created Damn Small Linux.
I think Tinycore is more like a learning tool than a daily driver. If you want to know the basics of how a Linux system boots you should read the book.
I especially like how the entire system is basically one big shell script.
tiny core is for small embeded systems, like car ignitions, modems, little robotics modules/arduinos etc.
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Don't use it for anything important as its not well maintained. You should either use buildroot, openwrt or Debian.
I've programmed Arduinos and microcontrollers, including one with an ARM Cortex M4 CPU. In all cases, I just write C code on my computer and download it onto the board with a USB cable. No OS needed.