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Raspberry Pi / Re: Does this work with Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

« Last post by Paul_123 on Today at 08:22:06 AM »

Personally I would not run the 64bit version.   The zero2W only has 512k ram, and the memory footprint of 64bit is higher.

There are several threads around here on how to add wifi to the image before booting, but you will still need a keyboard and monitor to add wifi credentials.

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Does this work with Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

« Last post by Juanito on Today at 06:30:50 AM »

The WiFi won’t work out of the box, so it would be easier to have a keyboard, mouse and monitor handy.

The screen resolution should be OK - I don’t have an RPi0 2W to check.

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Raspberry Pi / Re: Does this work with Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

« Last post by MaxFury on Today at 02:07:57 AM »

Oh and, would this version of TCL support 1920x1080 resolution?

Thanks

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Raspberry Pi / Does this work with Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W

« Last post by MaxFury on Today at 01:19:09 AM »

Can I run this
http://www.tinycorelinux.net/16.x/aarch64/release/RPi/piCore64-16.0.0.img.gz

on Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W out of the box? just burn the img onto a SD card and turn the power on, will it work?

-thanks

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TCE Talk / Re: Firefox

« Last post by CNK on February 22, 2026, 06:21:57 PM »

The nightly builds are retrieved differently to the normal, beta, and ESR releases, so the script doesn't support them.

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TCE Q&A Forum / Re: is XFE working with smb?

« Last post by nick65go on February 22, 2026, 05:32:18 AM »

Because I started this topic, then I should clarify/state that Xfe (2.1.1+) is working with smb protocol    but not by default, it needs some other tcz (fuse3, gvfs) and configuration.

In summary, after I manage to have the win11 "windows shares" to be seen in the "host" linux (Arch linux type) then in a chroot I can see it also. So when Alpine linux runs in a chroot, I started xfe, and in left-side panel in tab "Places" (not tab "Tree"), down in section "Mount Points" it shows an item like "tmp@192.168.x.x.

My problem was that the "host" runs systemd services + wayland, and I need to have active processes running like gvfs-*(fuse, smb, ?) plus also to change /etc/fuse.cfg to allow not-root users to see mounted devices. Then moreover, from the "guest" (Alpine in chroot) I need the proper access rights to "host" /run/user/1000/gvfs (here is smb seen as mounted in host).

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Raspberry Pi / Delicate primes computed using PARI/GP (Tiny Core friendly)

« Last post by geev03 on February 22, 2026, 05:18:49 AM »

I’ve successfully computed delicate primes using PARI/GP, and wanted to share this here since it runs well even on minimal systems like Tiny Core Linux.

A delicate prime is a prime number such that changing any single decimal digit to any other digit always produces a composite number. Even one digit mutation destroying primality makes these primes extremely rare and interesting.

PARI/GP approach

The idea is simple and efficient:

Check if a number is prime

For each digit position:

Replace the digit with all other digits 0–9

Skip the original digit

Test primality of the modified number

If any modification is prime → reject

If all modifications are composite → delicate prime

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isdelicate(p)=
{
  if (!isprime(p), return(0));
  d = digits(p);
  for (i=1, #d,
    for (x=0,9,
      if (x != d[i],
        v = fromdigits(subst(d, i, x));
        if (v > 1 && isprime(v), return(0))
      )
    )
  );
  return(1);
}

delicates(limit)=
{
  forprime(p=2, limit,
    if (isdelicate(p),
      print(p)
    )
  )
}

Usage example:

delicates(10^7)
Notes

Runs comfortably on low-memory systems

No external libraries needed beyond PARI/GP

Easy to adapt for:

Larger ranges

Other bases

“Strong” delicate prime definitions

This is another nice example of how PARI/GP shines on minimal Linux setups like Tiny Core when exploring number theory.

To get the result in a file, gp -q <wp.gp > result.txt &

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

« Last post by mocore on February 22, 2026, 03:37:09 AM »

 

"Across Europe, a steady political drumbeat has been urging both the public and public institutions to loosen their dependence on Big Tech." 

&

https://dillo-browser.github.io/news/migration-from-github/

so its a trend almost like an : "Exodus movement of our repo"
 

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TCE Q&A Forum / Re: Why are tinycore64 tcz files in the 32bit tcz mirror download folder

« Last post by Rich on February 21, 2026, 10:21:25 PM »

Hi jackk
Welcome to the forum.

It allows you to run 32 bit programs under a 64 bit kernel.
Instead of using core.gz for an initrd, you would create a core64.gz like this:

Code: [Select]

cat rootfs.gz modules64.gz > core64.gzand then boot vmlinuz64 along with core64.gz.

This gives you a kernel that can manage a large amount of RAM and
allocate up to 4 Gig of RAM to each 32 bit program you are running.

When loading an extension that requires kernel modules, the tinycore64
version will be used instead.

You can not run 64 bit programs in this type of environment.

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TCE Q&A Forum / Why are tinycore64 tcz files in the 32bit tcz mirror download folder

« Last post by jackk on February 21, 2026, 09:43:18 PM »

I see some tinycore64 tcz files in the 32bit mirror download folder and don't understand why they are there. The folder typically has the 32bit version of the the software when it has the 64 bit version. It seems too frequent to be a mistake. I am looking at the 17.x collection. I am undertaking sustained learning project to get familiar with Tiny Core and admit to being puzzled by this feature.