piCore-12.0alpha1

[Juanito]

Team Tiny Core is proud to announce the first alpha release of piCore-12.0

For RPi0 and RPi1:
http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/armv6/test_releases/RPi/piCore-12.0alpha1.zip

For RPi2, RPi3 and RPi4:
http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/armv7/test_releases/RPi/piCore-12.0alpha1.zip

..and for the first time a 64-bit release for RPi3 and RPi4:
http://tinycorelinux.net/12.x/aarch64/test_releases/RPi/piCore64-12.0-alpha1.zip

Note that the 64-bit extension support is limited as everything has to be built from scratch.

Core components

- kernel 5.4.51
- glibc-2.31
- busybox-1.31.1
- gcc-10.1.0
- util-linux-2.35.2
- e2fsprogs-1.45.6

Please try it out and share your experience, bugs found, etc.

[aus9]

Hi
Thanks to Bela, you and contributors for RPi TC development. README is on first partition.
Snippets from bmarkus' README....First partition..... is unmounted during operation.

Please consider putting a copy of README under tce dir to minimise dummies like me, from not seeing it, not researching it etc etc

In final release post  either say please read the README under tce dir and/or publish the user password

thanks for reading

[aus9]

Just a suggestion even tho its only minor. In 6 series if I restart the openssh daemon I get messages that:
file /var/empty already exists
addgroup group sshd in use
adduser user sshd in use.

I did a small mod to change the contents of /usr/local/etc/init.d/openssh so that line reads
[ -d /var/empty ] || mkdir /var/empty  in lieu of -f and that seems to remove that issue.

Yes I do know that every dir is also a file in Linux but forgive my weirdness.

[Juanito]

Maybe at the same time the init.d can be converted to use group staff like x86/x86_64?

[aus9]

I am not sure. Forgot to add did the same thing to convert -f to -d for same file above
/usr/local/etc/ssh

[aus9]

also, there seems to be differences between at least one dep file TC64 versus Arm 6
eg
http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/armv6/tcz/fltk-1.3.tcz.dep
libjpeg-turbo.tcz
libpng.tcz
libXinerama.tcz
libXft.tcz
libXcursor.tcz


http://tinycorelinux.net/11.x/x86_64/tcz/fltk-1.3.tcz.dep
libXext.tcz
libjpeg-turbo.tcz
libpng.tcz

I have no clue why that is.

[Juanito]

I think that is because originally fltk had been compiled against libXinerama, libXft and libXcursor, unlike x86/x86_64, but then the deps belong with ftlk-1.3.

[mbivol10]

Can't wait to install this (64 bit) on the pi 4B  xD Where can I find the nodejs source to compile? Do I just clone it from nodejs github?

[Juanito]

It's better to use releases: https://github.com/nodejs/node/releases

[mbivol10]

That's where I was going to get it from ... what package contains gcc/g++ ? I need those to do compilation

Btw, it works great on the 4b

[Juanito]

Load the compiletc extension.

[mbivol10]

 I did ... still nothing

[Rich]

Hi mbivol10
Try this:

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sudo rm -rf /usr/local/tce.installed/compiletc
sudo rm -rf /etc/sysconfig/tcedir/optional/compiletc*
tce-load -liw compiletc

[Paul_123]

I would guess he did not expand the 2nd partition, and ran out of space downloading.

[aus9]

aarch64....I have a working image of it with flwm success desktop with ethernet. Yet to test anything wl or bt etc

One thing I noticed, the key generation is so much  faster than for my arm 6 11x.
I noticed you and Paul have been busy beavers populating the Apps list.

thanks heaps

cheers