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File sizes

I am going through our this page and verifying all of the citations.

I have a question about file sizes Here are the sizes I personally verified:

ISO size of Core x86 Version 12.0: 15.3 MB (16,054,272 bytes)
ISO size of TinyCore x86 Version 12.0: 20.0 MB (20,971,520 bytes)
ISO size of CorePlus x86 Version 12.0: 155 MB (162,529,280 bytes)
IMG Size of piCore Version 13.0.3 (after unzipping): 84.0 MB (88,080,384 bytes)

Right now I just put these results in edit comments -- I am hoping to find a reliable secondary source to confirm my WP:OR.

My question is about dCore. For dCore x86 I have bionic, jessie, stretch, trusty, wheezy, and xenial.[1] For dCore 64 I have bionic64, buster64, focal64, and stretch64.[2] Which should I use for measuring the size of dCore?

Related: dCore FAQ,[3] Question "Why offer so many Debian and Ubuntu flavors?" --Guy Macon (talk) 02:46, 5 April 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Guy Macon, for the dCore sizes I would choose the most current stable builds to represent the file sizes of both the x86 and dCore 64 versions because those will be the most likely to appear in future secondary sourcing, and that is what appears in the current sourcing. I also think you can use the primary sources for the data per talk here:

User_talk:Guy_Macon#Answer_to_questions_about_Linux_Categories. Absent of secondary sourcing, you could always list all of the file sizes of each version explaining that there are different sizes available depending what version you choose, but that is a whole lot of un-needed work when you can still explain that there are many sizes available and simply list the most current stable version as an example of one of them. Nothing at all wrong with that... Huggums537 (talk) 08:06, 29 July 2021 (UTC)[reply]