piCore16 Beta

[Paul_123]

Team Tiny Core is happy to announce the beta release of piCore-16.0.  Both 32 and 64bit images are ready for download/testing.

Changelog for 16.0 beta1 (Since the Alpha1 release):
* rpi-kernel 6.12.25

* Fixed backup errors due to no DSA keys from openssh
* Removed Old module config file for 8192 driver.
* Update module config for rpi wireless (brcmfmac)


Changelog for 16.0 alpha1:
* rpi-kernel 6.12.15
* glibc updated to 2.40
* gcc updated to 14.2.0
* binutils updated to 2.43.1
* e2fsprogs base libs/apps updated to 1.47.1
* util-linux base libs/apps updated to 2.40.2
* Micropython updated to 1.24.1
* OpenSSL updated to 3.4.1
* OpenSSH updated to 9.9p2
* CoreScripts updated to latest in git.

* Fix udev rules for proper serial console configuration.

32bit - http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/armhf/release_candidates/RPi/piCore-16.0.0-beta1.img.gz  (This should run on all rpi boards)
         - sha256: 92efe99b4e821a6a0c469b119db520d1e9347b04ad8c7f586614085ea7d25dd6  piCore-16.0.0-beta1.img.gz

64bit - http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/aarch64/release_candidates/RPi/piCore64-16.0.0-beta1.img.gz  (rpi zero2W, pi3, pi4, pi5)
         - sha256: 51018e946d82f923af2b06df6fa6b9ceac1b5824be2f59964e2e0cb1601b2478  piCore64-16.0.0-beta1.img.gz

Note: Image files are now just gzipped, you can just zcat the image if using dd to write your image, or some imaging tools support writing compressed images.
Note:  When using 32bit images, the pi4 and pi5 will use a 64bit kernel.  please make sure to look at uname if manually downloading kernel module extensions.

[Juanito]

Both piCore (on an RPi3) and piCore64 (on an RPi5) seem to work OK for me 

[uli]

Thanks, works very well, indeed - on Raspi Zero W.
Though there might possibly be some inconsistency with extension names imlib2 vs. imlib2-bin. The latter seems to be used in Xprogs dependencies, but cannot be found in the repository.

[Rich]

Hi uli
That's because in aarch64, the /usr/local/bin/ files were separated
from the imlib2.tcz extension, and in armhf they weren't.

[Rich]

Hi uli
Xprogs.tcz.dep updated in the TC16 armhf repository.

[mortegai]

Updated piCore64 to 16.x from 15.x on RPi4
Updated existing extensions.
Everything works correctly, except that exittc (TC Exit Options) defaults to Safe when I have the BACKUP="0" environment variable set.

[Rich]

Hi mortegai
I see the issue. Will submit a fix.