tinycore_v3.5rc2

[roberts]

The Second Release Candidate of Tiny Core v3.5 is now posted and ready for testing.
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/tinycorelinux/3.x/release_candidates

tinycore_3.5rc2.iso
tinycore_3.5rc2.iso.md5.txt

Change log for Tiny Core v3.5:

rc1
* Clean up of tce-audit 'delete' spurious messages.
* New tce-remove support for tce-audit/appsaudit.
* Update wbar_rm_icon to support tce-remove.
* Updated appsaudit to support removing ondemand uninstalled extensions without rebooting.
* Updated appsaudit, added highlight on FAILED md5 checking.
* Moved thinkpad_acpi.ko from base to extension.
* Updated tc-config crond call and removed duplicate crond script.
* Updated wbarconf added many more bar position options.
* Updated services to support nested daemon starting.
* Updated appbrowser moved Mirror Selection to support mirror.tcz extension.
* Updated busybox 1.18.1 plus patches.
* Scripts adjusted to remove extra spaces to reduce size.
* fsck replaced with busybox fsck
* zsync upgraded to 0.6.2.
* updated fluff file manager to 0.8.9

rc2

* New autoscan-devices compiled to improve boot speed.
* Updated tc-functions for call to autoscan-devices.
* New rotdash compiled to improve boot speed.
* Updated tce-audit builddb to not force fetch of all .dep files when no tce.db exists.
* Corrected typo in .desktop item for fluff file manager.
* Corrected permission on protect option bfe file.
* New logo tag line. Fast. Easy. Modular. Extendable.

[maro]

Hmm, I wonder whether
   chown tc:root /etc/sysconfig/bfe
in '/etc/init.d/tc-config' should rather be
   chown ${USER}:root /etc/sysconfig/bfe

[roberts]

Indeed. Corrected. Thanks.

[Juanito]

The terminal window is opaque (also in rc1 i guess), whereas it was pseudo-transparent in tc-3.4 (I believe).

[curaga]

@Juanito: it's still transparent here on bare TC 3.5rc1 and rc2. Maybe it's a MC issue?

[roberts]

Indeed. MC only. Xprogs.tcz issued. Solved and repost of Xprogs.tcz

[bmarkus]

Missing in changelog:

- fixed handling of Termminal=true in freedesktop.org menu on WBAR

[uli]

Might there be an issue with either wget or networking in general ?
I am running tc on a virtualbox, default settings, 512MB, booted off the tinycore iso.

doing a $ time wget http://my-local-server I see a real time consumption of 0m0.01s with tc3.4.1, as expected (it's 30k of data being fetched).

With tc3.5rc2 I see a horrible 0m6.01s.

Did a quick check with some real hardware and concluded it's rather not a mere vbox issue, but might be real. Unfortunately no time to explore any further myself...

[curaga]

@uli

There were only a couple changes to wget between busybox 1.17.2 and 1.18.1. If you find that is a busybox bug, please report it upstream.

[uli]

@uli

There were only a couple changes to wget between busybox 1.17.2 and 1.18.1. If you find that is a busybox bug, please report it upstream.

Thanks. Replacing 1.18.1 by 1.17.2 did in fact solve the problem for me. Though I wouldn't know how to "report it upstream". But maybe some more senior bug hunter wishes to confirm and report the issue.

update: problem has been reported. Further tests show that issue persists in busybox 1.18.3

update_1 problem fixed in latest bugfix to 1.18.3

[curaga]

File a bug here:
https://bugs.busybox.net/

Or send a mail:
http://busybox.net/lists.html

[roberts]

Looks like a patch for wget is now available for 1.18.3
http://busybox.net/downloads/fixes-1.18.3/