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roberts:
The Second Release Candidate of Tiny Core v3.8 is now posted and ready for testing.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release_candidates

tinycore_3.8rc2.iso
tinycore_3.8rc2.iso.md5.txt

Change log:
rc1
* New icons for AppBrowser and AppsAudit.
* Updated mnttool - added a refresh button.
* Updated AppsBrowser - clear Search&Provides field upon results.
* Updated Wallpaper - Improved GUI. Now with a single window.
* Updated AppsAudit - updated error reporting and now reports stale extensions.
* Updated tce-load - now allows re-downloading non-installed extensions to better handle download failures.
* Updated tce-setup & tce-load to ensure busybox calls thus avoiding conflicts with gnu utilities.
* Updated rc.shutdown - removed sleep to improve shutdown speed.

rc2
* Updated AppsAudit - md5 function slowness corrected.
* Updated wbarconf - support for no initial .wbar
* Updated busybox  -  1.18.5 new depmod applet and audit of required applets.
* Updated search.sh  - improved searching by title results and support for fat file-system.
* Updated provides.sh  - support for fat file-system.
* Updated tce-setup, tce-load, and loadpack.sh - alias for new depmod applet.
* Updated .profile - new user login sudo issue resolved.
* Removed remnant .wbar from /etc/skel
* Updated AppBrowser & AppsAudit icons - slightly larger

Note: depmod has been moved to extensions, gnu depmod may be required by certain extensions, e.g., alsa.

netnomad:
hi roberts,

the md5sum-check is now just like a dream again! good job!
now i have only the problem to restore my backup.
3.8rc1 worked just fine for me, but in 3.8rc2 my encrypted backup isn't restored anymore.
the error message in red letters disappears so fast that i can't read it...

this is the entry of my multibootiso-config

title MicroCore testing
find --set-root /microcore-testing.iso
map /microcore-testing.iso (hd32) || map --mem /testing-testing.iso (hd32)
map --hook
kernel (hd32)/boot/bzImage waitusb=5 protect restore=LABEL=tc laptop mydata=mc-test multivt
initrd (hd32)/boot/microcore.gz
boot

thank you for your help!

roberts:
Fixed encrypted restore. Reposted rc2.

netnomad:
now it restores just fine... thank you!

maro:
Robert, as I can see that BusyBox got rebuild I wonder whether this suggestion (i.e. to include the 'stat' applet) was considered and revoked or has it just "fallen through the cracks"?

Furthermore I'd like to pause for a moment to lament the removal of 'uuencode' / 'uudecode' from the Core. Those might be rather ancient tools in the eyes of many who have not known the limitations of 7-bit ASCII emails (e.g. in the early 1990). I for one can still see their use in allowing the inclusion of binary blobs (e.g. icon files) in scripts to build an extension. True, those tools live on in the 'shareutils.tcz' extension, but until now one could rely on the fact that they were there right "out of the box".

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