Recent Posts

21

TCE Tips & Tricks / Re: firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?

« Last post by Juanito on September 05, 2025, 04:18:25 PM »

I’ve compiled Firefox for tinycore/piCore a number of times, it’s been difficult to do so for x86 for some time now.

22

TCE Tips & Tricks / firefox 144 as last version for x86 (32 bits)?

« Last post by nick65go on September 05, 2025, 03:39:06 PM »

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-Ending-32-bit-Linux
My understanding is that no many (if any) TC developers compile Firefox from sources. So most TC users grab a Firefox using a smart script (get-firefox-latest.sh) to grab already compiled Firefox from horse mouth. From year 2026 this will not be possible, and no Firefox securities / updates will be available easy to download for 32 bits.

This is an important / unfair kick in the back for understaffed /hobby Linux distros . At least for me, without Firefox browser I will not touch a distro for production or important LIVE things.

23

TCB Bugs / Re: PS1 bug in TC16

« Last post by nick65go on September 05, 2025, 02:53:13 PM »

Here a demo. with two fictive users (John and Smith), each with different shell prompter

Code: [Select]

❯ ls -l home/
drwxr-xr-x - abc  5 Sep 19:52  John
drwxr-xr-x - abc  5 Sep 19:53  Smith

❯ cat home/John/.profile
PS1='\u@GREEN:\w\$ '
export PS1

❯ cat home/Smith/.profile
PS1='\u@RED:\w\$ '
export PS1If you use a LOGIN SHELL, sh -l, or login, you get the user specific prompter.
But if you just SU/SUDO (switch user) , the shell prompter stays as former user:

Code: [Select]

~/Desktop/TinyCore/demo
❯ sudo chroot . /bin/login -f John
John@GREEN:~$ cd /
John@GREEN:/$ su Smith
Smith@GREEN:/$                        <==same GREEN prompter as for John, former user

Smith@GREEN:/$ sudo login -f Smith
Smith@RED:~$ exit                      <==now the new user prompter RED
Smith@GREEN:/$ ^CThe way to change the shell prompter even for a non-login shell is to have, BEFORE summon the su or sudo, the ENV (environment variable) set to a personal script somewhere, as ENV=full-path-to-that-executable-script-to-change-PS1. So every time you change user, the new sh shell will SOURCE that script.

24

TCB Bugs / Re: PS1 bug in TC16

« Last post by nick65go on September 05, 2025, 11:54:24 AM »

hm, it is a difference if the shell (ash or sh) is interactive (like sudo sh) or a login shell (ash -l); maybe only the login shell read the /etc/profile* and then the ".profile" from user (tc or root) home.

25

Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Re: Walled Culture - Glyn Moody - grab it now, read it sooner!

« Last post by gadget42 on September 05, 2025, 09:34:58 AM »

Glyn Moody: Why Powerful But Hard To Detect Backdoors Could Become A Routine Problem For Open Source Projects Because Of AI

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/09/04/why-powerful-but-hard-to-detect-backdoors-could-become-a-routine-problem-for-open-source-projects-because-of-ai/

26

Corepure64 / Re: What is corepure for

« Last post by neonix on September 05, 2025, 08:07:56 AM »

CorePure64 is 64-bit version of Linux operating system for x86_64 architecture. It allows to use more than 4 GB of RAM, and many web browsers are published only for 64-bit systems, becouse they require SSE2 instructions set that many 32-bit procesors don't have.

27

Raspberry Pi / Re: Upgrading piCore 13 to run on Raspberry Pi 5

« Last post by Juanito on September 05, 2025, 06:28:26 AM »

piCore64 16.x is working fine for me on an RPi5 with Xorg-3d.

You need graphics-6.12.25-piCore-v8-16k.tcz with the RPi5 - if you use "tce-load -w graphics-KERNEL" from the command line, it will download the appropriate version.

Wayland also works fine and vulkan will work with both x11 and wayland.

28

Raspberry Pi / Re: Upgrading piCore 13 to run on Raspberry Pi 5

« Last post by Rabie on September 05, 2025, 05:51:34 AM »

Which version works best with the Pi5?
I’ve tried piCore64 as well as the 32-bit version, but I keep getting a “failed waitforX” error when I install xorg-3d.

Of course, I’ve installed graphics-6.6.47-piCore-v8.tcz (for 64-bit) and graphics-6.6.47-piCore-v7.tcz (for 32-bit), respectively.

What could be causing this issue?

29

TCB Bugs / Re: PS1 bug in TC16

« Last post by adb014 on September 05, 2025, 03:58:10 AM »

Yet I'd set my own prompt in /home/tc/.profile and "sudo sh" doesn't reread /etc/profile. I only saw the problem when I removed the setting of PS1 in /home/tc/.profile

30

Off-Topic - Tiny Core Lounge / Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

« Last post by gadget42 on September 05, 2025, 02:48:07 AM »

Addressing the unauthorized issuance of multiple TLS certificates for 1.1.1.1

https://blog.cloudflare.com/unauthorized-issuance-of-certificates-for-1-1-1-1/

regardless of opinions of/on Cloudflare, their incident reports are very insightful, informative, and professional

also of potential interest:

https://groups.google.com/a/mozilla.org/g/dev-security-policy/c/SgwC1QsEpvc

https://crt.sh/

https://radar.cloudflare.com/certificate-transparency

https://www.reddit.com/r/dns/comments/1fv5f9u/what_dns_do_you_recommend_1111_vs_9999_vs_opendns/

footnote/sidenote: originally saw this via arstechnica rss feed but at time of posting their website is down for maintenance

here is the arstechnica url:
https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/09/mis-issued-certificates-for-1-1-1-1-dns-service-pose-a-threat-to-the-internet/