14 DAY TRIAL // Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced on January 23rd the immediate availability of the Tiny Core Linux 2.8 operating system. The new release brings, as usual, a lot of bugfixes, updates to scripts, included applications, and various improvements. Without further introduction, let's take a closer look at some of the most important changes brought by the new Tiny Core Linux 2.8 operating system:
· FLTK was updated to version 1.1.10; · FLWM includes now a different layout for the close button; · appbrowser was updated to handle the new extension support structure and onboot.lst; · appsaudit was updated with the OnBoot new menu section, in order to support onboot.lst administration; · appsaudit includes the Updates menu option, for checking available updates; · appsaudit was also updated to allow removing items selectively; · cpanel was reorganized and updated with OnDemand, USB Install, TCE Update, Run Command, Xvesa Setup, Xkill; · "Select Mirror"/tcemirror offers now easy selection of repository mirrors; · tce-load, tce-setup and tce-audit were updated to support the new extension support structure and onboot.lst; · tce-load allows now multiple loading; · Droped the .tcz requirement from tce-load; · tce-update now prompts the user before the batch update operation starts; · tce-update now supports selective interaction; · /opt/.filetool.lst was updated for tcemirror; · Removed symlinker; · Removed dropbearmulti and GNU ftp; · /opt/.tcrc was replaced by /opt/tcemirror; · Faster boot times by updating the udev rules; · rebuildfstab was updated to respond faster; · filetool.sh now ignores sockets; · Fixed a tc-terminal-server typo; · tc-config PXE was updated to handle the extension support structure; · cd_dvd_symlinks.sh now handles better multiple DVD and CD-ROM devices.
About Tiny Core Linux
Tiny Core Linux aims to be an extremely lightweight core desktop upon which users can install their choice of applications. It can operate in four modes: Cloud/Internet – the default boot mode where the system boots entirely in the RAM, PPR/TCE mode – the user has to specify a persistent storage partition and employ the TCE repository, PPR/TCZ mode – the same as PPR/TCE, except it uses the TCZ extension type, and the PPI/TCE mode – installs extensions on a Linux partition or a loop back file.
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