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Tiny Core 11.0 Alpha 1 Testing

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Juanito:
Team Tiny Core is pleased to announce that Tiny Core 11.0 Alpha1 is available for public testing:

http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86/release_candidates/
http://repo.tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/release_candidates/

This is an alpha level cut. If you decide to help test, then please test carefully. We don't want anyone to lose data.

Since this is an alpha cut, we ask that only experienced users test. This cut is not for general use. The features in any alpha are not fixed and may change before a public release candidate is available.

We appreciate testing and feedback.

If you use distribution files note that you need a new vmlinuz and core.gz (or rootfs.gz + modules.gz)

Changelog for 11.0 alpha1:
* kernel updated to 5.4.3
* glibc updated to 2.30
* gcc updated to 9.2.0
* e2fsprogs base libs/apps updated to 1.45.4
* util-linux base libs/apps updated to 2.34
* busybox updated to 1.31.1
* .ashrc removed #alias d='dmenu_run &'

Note:

* we discovered a bug on the 32-bit version, in Intel IOMMU, preventing boot. If you have a high-end Intel system with IOMMU and VT-D, you may need intel_iommu=off to boot the 32-bit version
* the nouveau kernel module is now enabled, but it is in a separate extension and not in graphics-KERNEL. The nvidia binary driver is still recommended.
* Intel compute sticks, etc should now detect their embedded mmc flash
* for 64 bit version only: task_xacct and ipmi are enabled
* we will move extensions from linking to openssl-1.0.2 -> 1.1.1 as 1.0.2 is at end of life
* Xorg-7.7 will move from using the depreciated xf86-input-evdev to xf86-input-libinput, it is still possible to use xf86-input-evdev if required

andyj:
Trying to build open-vm-tools for TC-11 64-bit, running into a few issues, tce-status -i returns no extensions loaded. Many of them did get downloaded, so at least I have them.

Edit: turns out busybox mount no longer likes bs=4096.

Juanito:
Ah - my mistake, I fixed that, but then uploaded the wrong rootfs/rootfs64.

The problem is the new kernel squashfs module.

I'll upload the corrected versions tomorrow.

Juanito:
New versions uploaded.

andyj:
I need a few little things like libtirpc, procps-ng, and fuse, and some bigger ones like gtk and glibmm. I did manage to get Xorg, flwm, wbar, and aterm going, but I don't know what else I can test at this point until I can get building.

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