14 DAY TRIAL // Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced on October 9th the availability of Tiny Core Linux 2.4.0, a version that brings major updates to this very small Linux distribution (only 11 MB in size). However, today (October 10th), its creator announced the first maintenance version of the aforementioned release. Without further ado, let's have a look at the long list of changes that are present in Tiny Core 2.4.1:
· Flwm (Fast Light Window Manager) has been updated to version 1.12; · updated various components of flwm; · flwm_restart received menu refresh capability; · appbrowser was updated; · wbar.sh is now able to read even more configuration files from $HOME/.wbar; · flpicsee was updated to version 1.0 (the Ctrl hotkeys were replaced with Alt ones); · setbackground is now able to process a compressed logo template, in order to save space; · .Xdefaults supports the transparency mode of aterm; · .xsession can now start/check watcher and/or flit; · watcher will no longer overlay flit, and they were both moved to extensions; · tc-config can now process dependency file at startup; · fixed a few bugs in tce-load; · /dev/loop supports 255 loop devices (max_loop=255 is still needed); · rc.shutdown was updated to remove external calls; · fstype was updated to remove external calls; · in order to make the desktop environment reentrant and with better support for microcore, the startx, tc-config and .profile scripts were updated; · added new tce-setup, in order to load all the tce apps at boot; · tce-setup is called now by tc-config; · the filetool.sh and tc-restore scripts implement blowfish encrypted backup; · the default backup directory is now located in persistent tce folder; · fixed an issue with dependency partial downloads in tce-load; · /opt/.tcrc was updated; · removed the checkfs boot option (the "base norestore" option can be used instead); · optimized the code of tce-setup; · tc-config offers now more streamlined and consistent messages at startup; · the usbinstall script works better when it is launched from the system menu; · isolinux.cfg was updated to include max_loop=255; · free loop has been fixed; · errors about extensions are now shown at boot; · fixed tcz2ran.lst; · fixed the 'base norestore noicons' option; · $fstab_pid was added before the tce access; · removed pci.ids (the pic-ids.tcz and libpci.tczl extensions can be used instead); · in order to display the names of the extensions, during boot, the "showapps" boot code was added.
Don't forget to check out the official release announcement for some important notes about this release!
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.
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