Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced last evening (November 26th) the immediate availability of the Tiny Core Linux 2.6 distribution, a version that brings updated applications and scripts, various improvements and, of course, a couple of bug fixes. But let's take a closer look at some of the most important changes brought by the new Tiny Core Linux 2.6 operating system:

· Added select utility instead of dialog;
· The blkid, libuuid and libblkid tools were updated;
· rebuildfstab was updated to reflect removals and to drop additional mount points;
· The xsetup.sh script was updated using select;
· The mktclocal tool was updated using select;
· The tc-terminal-server script was updated using select;
· A missing link was updated in the libpng.so library;
· Support for cryptohome was removed;
· The tc-config script was updated to reflect new changes;
· The rc.shutdown script was updated to support the BusyBox syntax;
· The tce-load script was updated to support the BusyBox mount utility;
· Replaced the GNU versions of the losetup, mount, lsmod, rmmod, insmod, modprobe tools with the BusyBox ones;
· Support for the cramfs and ziofs filesystems was removed (all extensions uses squashfs);
· The ed, fsck, eject, expand and unexpand applets of BusyBox were removed;
· The flwm_topside_restart script was fixed to correctly update the system menu;
· flwm menu .wmx was updated to reflect new changes;
· The restore boot option of tc-restore.sh was updated to override the default backup location;
· The .xsesion and xsetup.sh scripts were updated for better redirection of error messages;
· The tiny ASCII penguin was restored in MOTD.

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 can use 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.

Download Tiny Core Linux 2.6 right now from Softpedia.