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Tiny Core 11.0 Alpha 1 Testing

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Juanito:
The alpha testing is probably more about the base, but the balance of the extensions will be added relatively soon.

andyj:
My idea of testing is: Starting from the base, can I build the rest of the system? Which in my case means "can I build a LAMP stack?"

GNUser:
I did some rudimentary tests on my X200 laptop:

1. I tested the WiFi stack (wpa_supplicant-dbus.tcz and all its dependencies, including the new openssl) and it's working perfectly
2. SSH client (openssh.tcz and its dependencies) also works
3. All TCE-specific shell scripts I tried are working fine

I can do more extensive testing once more extensions become available.

One heads up is that some BusyBox applets will have slightly different syntax. I guess this kind of thing is inevitable. In particular, the timeout applet now has a slightly different syntax (no more -t flag), which broke some of my shell scripts:

BB 1.29.3 syntax:

--- Code: ---timeout [-t SECS] [-s SIG] PROG ARGS
--- End code ---

BB 1.31.1 syntax:

--- Code: ---timeout [-s SIG] SECS PROG ARGS

--- End code ---

Rich:
Hi GNUser
That may have been done to make it compatible with the full version found in  coreutils.tcz:

--- Code: ---tc@E310:~$ timeout --help
Usage: timeout [OPTION] DURATION COMMAND [ARG]...
 ---~ SNIP ~---
  -s, --signal=SIGNAL
                 specify the signal to be sent on timeout;
                   SIGNAL may be a name like 'HUP' or a number;
                   see 'kill -l' for a list of signals
 ---~ SNIP ~---
DURATION is a floating point number with an optional suffix:
's' for seconds (the default), 'm' for minutes, 'h' for hours or 'd' for days.
A duration of 0 disables the associated timeout.
--- End code ---

Now if you write something using the  Busybox  syntax, it won't break if it encounters the full GNU version of  timeout.

GNUser:
Thanks, Rich. Yes, I do vaguely remember adding the -t flags when I copied these scripts from Devuan (which uses GNU coreutils) to TCL/BusyBox. Now that the syntax is the same, hopefully this is the last time I make edits because of this.

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