Robert Shingledecker, founder of the Tiny Core Linux project, announced on June 28th, the release of Tiny Core Linux 2.1, a very small Linux distribution that is only 11 MB in size.
This version comes with many updates:
- The new modutils will further improve space efficiency
- Two added modules, hwmon and rfkill, bring better support for laptops.
Tiny Core Linux aims to be an extremely lightweight core desktop upon which users can install their choice of applications. It can operate in four modes: Cloud/Internet – the default boot mode where the system boots entirely in the RAM, PPR/TCE mode – the user has to specify a persistent storage partition and can use the TCE repository, PPR/TCZ mode – the same as PPR/TCE, except it uses the TCZ extension type, and the PPI/TCE mode – installs extensions on a Linux partition or a loop back file.
· The df and mount bind options are now better supported through the inclusion of tmpfs instead of initramfs;
· A new squashfs module fixes several boot crashes;
· The new Aterm application better interacts with appbrowser;
· Added WaitforX to fix WM timing problems;
· Updated Busybox to 1.13.4;
· Added usbinstall, a CLI (command line interface) tool to provide easy USB installations on different devices: pendrives, USB HDDs, USB Zips or USBext;
· Added the upgrade_tce.sh batch upgrade script;
· The virtual hard drive was updated and now supports persistent home;
· Extra shells were eliminated by updating the desktop.sh and jwm_makemenu;
· Startx now supports additional X server core elements;
· tc-config and tc-restore were updated and norestore was moved to tc-config;
· The tce-wget CLI extension fetcher was updated;
· Crond and sshd were moved after restore to better support user selected options;
· Improved mountpoint detection by adding a space to the end of searched devices in tc-functions;
· Removed memdisk and mbr.bin, already present in the extensions;
· Extra delimiters in the date section of a filename were removed;
· The system now falls back to prior lspci;
· Fixed a bug in the "nofstab" boot option.
Trackback(0)
TrackBack URI for this entry
Comments (1)
Write comment
Newer news items:
- 13/08/2009 05:57 - 10 reasons Linux should be your netbook operating system
- 17/07/2009 11:48 - Open-source adoption faces extra obstacles in China
- 12/07/2009 11:49 - Chrome OS: what does it mean for Android?
- 11/07/2009 06:11 - What open source can learn from Apple
- 01/07/2009 10:57 - Is Red Hat a Takeover Target?
Older news items:
- 17/06/2009 07:48 - Happy to be back in a Linux environment By Ubuntu 8.04
- 11/06/2009 13:09 - Fedora is out today with its latest release, Fedora 11
- 11/06/2009 13:02 - Fastboot's Inclusion Linux 2.6.30
- 09/06/2009 10:49 - New Release -stable 0.10.0 ISO
- 07/06/2009 05:43 - Based on XFCE - Calculate Linux Desktop 9.6 released
Free - Magazines
My Tweets
more info...!
Chat
Please login to be able to chat.
You don't mention if you're using Parrot; you could replace a number of "interpreters" (examples: m4, bc, tcl, ruby, lua, PHP, Python, Perl 6) with Parrot-based implementations, for even more space-saving.
Good stuff - keep it up!
-Paul Reiber
Reiber Labs