14 DAY TRIAL // Robert Shingledecker has released Tiny Core Linux 2.3, a new update to the popular minimal Linux Distribution. Probably the most important change in the new release is the switch from Joe's Window Manager (JWM) to the Fast Light Window Manager (FLWM). This window manager switch causes a lot of changes, like the inclusion of flit, a FLTK notification area that allows for battery and date display and sound control right on the desktop. Users that are updating from Tiny Core 2.2 should update their ".profile" file, otherwise the new window manager will fail to start.
As a new security feature, Tiny Core 2.3 allows the users to turn off the autologin function, which was enforced by default until now. However, the users will need to have their passwords properly set up before enabling this function, since failure to do so may cause an incapacity to log in.
Support for TCZ application packages was extended, allowing for these extensions to be loaded in RAM if the user wishes to. This behavior can be configured on an individual basis, by adding the desired modules to a "tcz2ram.lst" file and placing it in the extension directory, or globally, by creating a "tcz2ram.flg" file in that same directory. Still, not all the TCZ packages may work when loaded that way, at least until all of them are checked or updated.
Busybox was updated to version 1.14.3, and the developers made modifications to the window manager's configuration file to enable regular user access to the umount, ping and passwd utilities.
TinyCore's set of special utilities and scripts received many updates. xsetup.sh now allows for Xorg to run without a configuration file, and setbackground was modified to support the new Esetroot wallpaper setting method. Appbrowser's interface was cleaned and, along with tce-load, was updated to support loading extensions in RAM.
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