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Offline roberts

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microcore_v2.6rc1
« on: November 15, 2009, 03:19:56 PM »
The First Release Candidate of Micro Core v2.6 (microcore_2.6rc1.iso), is now posted and ready for testing.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release_candidates/microcore/

microcore_2.6rc1.iso
microcore_2.6rc1.iso.md5.txt

Xlibs.core.tczl.md5.txt
Xlibs.core.tczl

Xprogs.core.tczl.md5.txt
Xprogs.core.tczl

flwm.tcz
flwm.tcz.md5.txt

flwm_topside.tcz
flwm_topside.tcz.md5.txt

* Updated bzImage for smaller size (upx'ed)
* Updated rebuildfstab to drop extra mount points.
* New select utility replaces dialog
* Dropped dialog, use dialog.tcz extension (posted)
* Updated xsetup.sh
* Updated mktclocal
* Updated tc-terminal-server
* Updated missing link libpng.so
* Updated blkid, libblkid, and libuuid
* Dropped cryptohome support.
* Busybox mount and losetup replace GNU versions

Notes:
Be sure to update your kernel with new smaller, faster booting, bzImage
I decided to drop dialog as it is quite big and only used by three
programs, which are rarely used. Also, dialog screen gets
easily messed up when booting with xsetup. Cryptohome dropped was a team decision.

Note also; the distribution files are also availble:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/2.x/release_candidates/distribution_files

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Re: microcore_v2.6rc1
« Reply #1 on: November 16, 2009, 09:12:32 AM »
microcore_v2.6rc1 is now posted, The only change is GNU mount replaces busybox mount.
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