Tiny Core v5.2

[Juanito]

Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce the release of Core v5.2:

http://www.tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/release

Change log:
* rebuildfstab: do not replace fstab entries for a device that does not have "Added by TC" on the line (thanks to Gerald Clark)
* init: increase the default inode count
* ondemand: don't list extensions under subdirs in onboot maintenance
* ldd: add wildcard to support both x86 and x86_64
* busybox updated to 1.21.1 plus wget patches and split suid/nosuid for better security
* ldd: Added quotes for binaries with spaces in their names
* /etc/services: modified to suit rpcbind rather than portmap
* tc-functions: Removed the getpasswd stars to allow backspace to work

Note:

rootfs64.gz available for corepure64

a new nfs-utils extension has been issued to work with tc-5.2

[Zendrael]

Thanks!

Updating all systems in 3... 2... 1... 

[thane]

5.2 looks OK, but when checking for updates in Apps I get warning notice about latest version being 5.1 (http://distro.ibiblio.org/tinycorelinux/).

[Juanito]

On http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/ I don't see that error...

[gerald_clark]

Your selected mirror just has not caught up yet.

[beerstein]

core plus 5.2 works great for me. Some extensions I would like to see:
 nmap, lighttpd or mongoose,php

Firefox 21 gives me youtube out of the box, but no sound. I remember I had that problem before / but forgot.
Installed OSS and - osstest works but not in youtube.

Thank you for the good work

[bmarkus]

core plus 5.2 works great for me. Some extensions I would like to see:
 nmap, lighttpd or mongoose,php

I will add nmap and mongoose

[bmarkus]

nmap/zenmap added to x86 repo

[curaga]

Firefox 21 gives me youtube out of the box, but no sound. I remember I had that problem before / but forgot.
Installed OSS and - osstest works but not in youtube.

HTML5 video needs specific sound support (ie Firefox would need to be compiled for OSS, not for alsa). Last time IIRC you installed alsa.

[beerstein]

thanx -yes you are right curaga  - I think I have to use Alsa or go back to an older Firefox version.

[coreplayer2]

Usually this boot screen flashes by too quickly to read, but I finally caught it :p

When booting using rootfs-520.gz + modules-3813.gz + vmlinuz-3813.  during loading of vmlinuz there is a slight momentary pause in the boot process for this message.

Code: [Select]

early console in decompress_kernel

Decompressing Linux... Parsing ELF... done.
Booting the kernel

Is just interesting that I've never noticed it before, or is this new?  is a debugging feature?

[curaga]

Early console is a debugging feature (to print errors before the console is up), but rest assured it's not sleeping there but doing useful work

[coreplayer2]

Thank you for the explanation

[andrewb]

I just upgraded from 4.7.5 to 5.2 (yes a big jump, but I've been working on the 'if it ain't broke don't fix it' principle). Now my installation is broken. It booted when I replaced the core.gz & vmlinuz files & rebooted with the 4.7.5 extension set. Booted to a desktop with jwm-snapshot wm running. No wifi, so connected via cable & did an extension update using the Apps manager-> Maintenance -> updates. On rebooting I get to a cli, no wifi.  tce-load-wi says wifi downloaded, but tce-load wifi.tcz says wireless-3.8.13 missing, attempt to tce-load -wi this & get wget error - bad address 'tinycore.mirror.uber.com.au'.

A simple step by step guide to updating TC would be useful - either on the wiki or in the FAQ on the website.

I have updated many times, having used TC since it started, but never had a fail on this scale.

Beginning to think my first instincts were right - 'if it ain't broke don't fix it'

[Juanito]

Did you follow the instructions in the release post:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15889.0.html

If the mirror is giving problems, it's maybe better to take the extension from:

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/5.x/x86/tcz/wireless-3.8.13-tinycore.tcz

..and that avatar from the dsl days still makes me smile