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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Information technologies news

« Last post by vinceASPECT on Today at 10:00:54 AM »

Thanks.

FF ver 149 is nice with the free VPN and the new layout and look.

it's a great improvement.

50 gigs free VPN per month........likely plenty of data for most users

well done to Mozilla.  ( and it's free) 

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Programming & Scripting - Unofficial / Re: Possibility of using AI agents to code in Tiny Core Linux

« Last post by Juanito on Today at 09:03:48 AM »

What hardware is providing the vram? Nvidia is problematic due to its proprietary nature.

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Programming & Scripting - Unofficial / Possibility of using AI agents to code in Tiny Core Linux

« Last post by james.morowin on Today at 08:10:33 AM »

Hi, I'm James. I wanted to ask the possibility of using local llm AI agents like Ollama, Qwen and many other open source llm AI in this Linux distro (Tiny Core). I want to maximize my RAM capacity (16GB for ram, 8GB for VRAM) on my laptop to only for llm, but still with some level of GUI during the work session and in my opinion this distro fit all the criteria which it has the least RAM usage while also still modern enough to be connected to the internet. Any help is appreciated.

Best regards.

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TCE News / gnome-session removed

« Last post by Juanito on Today at 06:11:00 AM »

A while ago, gnome-session was built on tinycore x86_64 to see if a desktop designed for systemd could be made to work on a non-systemd distro.

After some hacking, the gnome desktop was made to work.

At some point with tc-16.x, the gnome desktop stopped working (most likely due to an update of glib2) and after several weeks trying unsuccessfully to get it working, I have decided to abandon it.

The following extensions have been removed from the tc-17 x86_64 repo

gdm
gnome-session
gnome-power-manager
gnome-shell
gnome-shell-extension-emoji-selector
gnome-shell-extensions
gnome-shell-extension-weather
gnome-tweaks
mutter
polari

It is possible that a couple more gnome-* extensions will only work with gnome-session, I will check for this and, if so, remove them.

If I have accidentally broken other extensions by the above removal, please report it so things can be fixed.

Edit: polari also seems to have been broken by a glib2 update, removed

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Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Information technologies news

« Last post by neonix on Today at 03:47:11 AM »

Firefox 149 brings free VPN, tab splits and better Linux integration
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/03/firefox-149-released-tab-split-free-vpn
Firefox is about to get curvy
https://www.pcworld.com/article/3082361/firefox-is-about-to-get-curvy.html
RISC-V for Infrastructure: For Now, It’s All About the Developer
https://www.sifive.com/blog/risc-v-for-infrastructure

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TCB Talk / Re: Tiny Core v17.0 upgrade issues

« Last post by Stefann on March 30, 2026, 11:47:51 AM »

Yes I will “set it up to crash”.
But first travel between April 2-10 running on TC15.
IF it crashes I will notice that as the system runs an Apache webserver that is available from outside.
My brother lives nearby and could than give it a manual reset.

The fricky thing is that “the full OS crashes”. No way to reset from outside.
My application has a watchdog around it. If that crashes it gets a restart after 15 minutes.

When I get back to “let it crash” I will also search my vga-monitor and keyboard that I have somewhere at the attic for exactly this reason.

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TCB Talk / Re: Re: Tiny Core v17.0 upgrade issues

« Last post by Paul_123 on March 30, 2026, 11:36:23 AM »

We update Glibc every release, For the most part Glibc is backwards compatible.  So there should be no reason to recompile when moving from 15->17.....but if you compiled under 17, then it will not work on 15.

Note that we keep referencing the Serial USB interface, but it could be any of them.  Now that you have logging figured out, it might be useful to set it so that it does crash, to hopefully verify the reason for the crash.

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TCB Talk / Re: Tiny Core v17.0 upgrade issues

« Last post by Stefann on March 30, 2026, 10:49:09 AM »

Hickup when I restarted on TC15,
I thought it was running (all gets started automatically all seemed up) but I noticed that the state did not change.
Better checking revealed:
- yes TC15 was running
- but my application was not

Starting it from the command line gave me:

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tc@huis:/krubo/work$ /krubo/work/krubo /krubo/work/1wire.def
/krubo/work/krubo: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_ABI_GNU_TLS' not found (required by /krubo/work/krubo)
/krubo/work/krubo: /lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.42' not found (required by /krubo/work/krubo)
What I did:
- completely recompiled my application on TC15
- restart

now all works.

Which makes me thinking:
- I probably need to do that on TC17: "completely recompile the application"

Anyway... I now want to run the thing "crash free" for upcoming days to allow me a headache-free travel April 2-10

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TCB Talk / Re: Tiny Core v17.0 upgrade issues

« Last post by Stefann on March 30, 2026, 09:02:55 AM »

Update,
After 48hrs it was still running under TC17 with extra bootcode "usbcore.autosuspend=-1"
Logging at *.notice level but not much in logging. Only some application logging I made myself and some crontab-launches.

I stopped all manual.
I will be travelling April 2-10 during which period I cannot risk a crash.
So.. I reverted back to TC15 and restarted.
That gives me a few days of run hopefully without crash.
The thing did run for multipel month without crash before I started my upgrade work so in principle it should run without crash now.
However... there is always the possibility that during the upgrade I did something "TC17 unrelated" that is causing all this. So in itself this should also give confirmation that TC15 is stable.
Target to run until April 10...11.

Note...
On the positive side..
It's extremely convenient that going back to earlier release is as simple as:
- modify tce/boot/extlinux/extlinux.conf to pick the older core.gz and vmlinuz (I did not overwrite them but kept old version as core15.gz and vmlinuz15)
- rename tce/optional directory to get the previous one back (yes I made a backup :-)
- modify tce/onboot.lst to include correct kernel extension for usb-serial

try that with windows.......

unless I get a crash: dont expect to hear form me until April-11
in the mean time: any smart idea is welcome. I will not have access to my tinycore system but travel with laptop so will check this forum regularly.

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TCB Talk / Re: Installing on a Tatung TWN-5213 CU

« Last post by peasthope on March 29, 2026, 10:09:00 PM »

...
So with  "loglevel=7" , you get messages for log levels 0 through 6.  ...

Thanks for explaining.  Will have another go during the coming weekend.

                      ,,, P