Oct 15, 2010 12:05 GMT  ·  By

Tiny Core 3.2 has been released, one month after the previous release. The minimalistic Linux distro comes with an updated BusyBox and a number of changes and improvements to the highly-customized environment. Most of the changes are under the hood.

Highlights of Tiny Core 3.2:

· BusyBox 1.17.2; · Better localization support in Appsaudit, Wallpaper, and Swapfile; · Updated AppBrowser and System Stats, all tabs now allow mouse "select for copy"; · Eliminated trailing null item in FLTK browser widget in Appsaudit and Appbrowser; · tce-load now handles case of missing dependency file; · filetool.sh got a "-d" switch for a dry run, compare restore boot code and improved encrypted backup; · Filetool GUI gets support for None/Backup/Safe options; · Moved 'protect' and 'secure' after extension loading to support alternate layout keyboards in tc-config; · No reboot required anymore to move from OnBoot to OnDemand; · Ondemand script added selection and removal of freedesktop items, improved pathing and support to handle freedesktop while also using wbar; · Inittab-save updated with askfirst for tty3-6 for memory savings when using multivt boot code; · Fixed inconsistency with X-FullPathIcon in .desktop-tinycore items; · Removed stats.txt from /opt/.xfiletool.lst; · Added ondemand directory to PATH;

The changes require users to update their .profile to benefit from the added ondemand PATH. Users also need to recreate any ondemand they made for a freedesktop desktop environment in a previous release.

About Tiny Core

Tiny Core takes lightweight Linux distributions to the extreme, weighing in at just 10 MB, but still providing a full graphical environment. It is designed to be a highly mobile distro coming with just the bare-bones minimum, Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, and Fltk.

Tiny Core 3.2 is available for download here on Softpedia.