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microcore_v3.5rc1
« on: January 29, 2011, 12:01:04 PM »
The First Release Candidate of Micro Core v3.5 is now posted and ready for testing.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release_candidates/microcore

microcore_3.5rc1.iso
microcore_3.5rc1.iso.md5.txt

Change log for Micro Core v3.5:

* Clean up of tce-audit 'delete' spurious messages.
* New tce-remove support for tce-audit/appsaudit.
* Moved thinkpad_acpi.ko from base to extension.
* Updated tc-config crond call and removed duplicate crond script.
* Updated busybox 1.18.1 plus patches.
* Scripts adjusted to remove extra spaces to reduce size.
* fsck replaced with busybox fsck
* zsync upgraded to 0.6.2.
* Changed all core components from .gz to tcz.
  (Note need to add them to onboot.lst, order is important.)
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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #1 on: January 29, 2011, 03:54:35 PM »
Looks good.
I am already using gzs converted to tczs in my optional directory.

I was wondering if the rc core components could have rc in their names.
Ex: Xprogs-rc.tcz
I use symlinks to share optional between release and release-candidate tce directories.


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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #2 on: January 29, 2011, 10:12:20 PM »
Particularly using "rc" as suffix of files unrelated to 'run commands' might potentially lead to confusion.
Perhaps "-rel" or something else might be less problematic.
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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #3 on: January 30, 2011, 06:54:56 AM »
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Perhaps "-rel" or something else might be less problematic.

Well... "-rel" would seem to lose the "condidate" part.  I like the idea of using some kind of signal, though.  How about something indicating to -which- rc it applies, for the benefit of those of us who don't do cleanup diligently?  Something like  Xprogs-3.5rc1.tcz
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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2011, 01:02:38 PM »
* Changed all core components from .gz to tcz.
  (Note need to add them to onboot.lst, order is important.)

What should the order be? If this is indeed important, it could perhaps be mentioned in the OP?

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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2011, 02:24:29 PM »
I only mentioned it because .gzs load before tczs. So to emulate prior setup place new tczs before existing tczs.
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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #6 on: February 03, 2011, 04:06:33 AM »
Perhaps intended, but after using "sudo tce-setup" and starting x and also rebooting with Xprogs, Xlibs, Xvesa, flwm, wbar in onboot.lst in that order, the screen background is black/blank.

Using panel/wallpaper/colour and chosing any colour brings back the screen background and tinycore logo.

[all this with no backup]
« Last Edit: February 03, 2011, 04:08:18 AM by Juanito »

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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #7 on: February 03, 2011, 06:49:45 PM »
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Re: microcore_v3.5rc1
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2011, 11:39:35 PM »
fixed  :)