Tiny Core v7.0

[Juanito]

Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the release of Core v7.0
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/7.x/x86/release
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/7.x/x86_64/release

Changelog for 7.0:
* kernel updated to 4.2.9 with the latest stable patch, with these config changes:
  - minstrel enabled for some wireless cards
  - vmmouse disabled for VMWare + Xvesa
  - the cpu limit on the 64-bit kernel raised to 64
* busybox updated to 1.24.1
* busybox patched to fix "crontab -e" error
* glibc updated to 2.22
* glibc patched for dns vunerability
* gcc updated to 5.2.0
* e2fsprogs base libs/apps updated to 1.42.13
* util-linux base libs/apps updated to 2.27
* tc-config: use full path for hwclock, from Misalf

Note:

* there is a drm/i915 kernel driver error pending a fix
* the alsa extensions have been refactored and updated
* the Xorg-7.7 extensions have been updated.
* there is a significant (+/-20mb) increase in CorePlus iso size due to an increase in firmware extension size
* most other extensions have been copied over from the 6.x repo

[Lee]

The md5 summs for modules.gz and modules64.gz don't seem to match?

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tc@apollo:/mnt/sda1/boot/core7.0$ for X in *.txt ; do md5sum -c $X ; done
core.gz: OK
modules.gz: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
modules64.gz: FAILED
md5sum: WARNING: 1 computed checksum did NOT match
rootfs.gz: OK

Also, I've always wondered - why no md5 sums for vmlinuz and vmliunz64 ?

The Linux Mint thing makes me more conscious of these things than I used to be.

[Juanito]

md5sums regenerated and added for vmlinuz{,64} - thanks

[nick65go]

on welcome page, maybe a small corection?
for "v7.0 Core v7.0 updates the linux kernel version to 4.2.9
There are no major changes to the base, but Xorg-7.7 and alsa have been refactored/updated.
See System Announcement in the support forum for detailed change log and update notes. "

Thanks for your systematicaly improvments.

[Juanito]

typo fixed - thanks

[thane]

The Welcome page still shows the latest version as 6.4.1.

[Juanito]

Thanks - I finally seem to have got it right this time...

[as]

Hello

This message mentions that the 64-bit config will have scsi_virtio in version 7 but I can't see that in the release notes.

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,19035.msg116911.html#msg116911

Do you know if scsi_virtio is enabled in V7.0?

thanks

[curaga]

Yes:

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$ grep SCSI_VIRTIO config-4.2.9-tinycore*
config-4.2.9-tinycore:CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y
config-4.2.9-tinycore64:CONFIG_SCSI_VIRTIO=y


[Juanito]

Note that the corepure64 files have been reposted to fix an issue with /usr/bin/locale.