Linux :
Tiny Core 2.4.1 Released
by Jl Garcia
on Mon, Oct 12, 2009 12:00 AM
(977 reads)
- Flwm (Fast Light Window Manager) has been updated to version 1.12;
- updated various components of flwm;
- flwm_restart received menu refresh capability;
- appbrowser was updated;
- wbar.sh is now able to read even more configuration files from $HOME/.wbar;
- flpicsee was updated to version 1.0 (the Ctrl hotkeys were replaced with Alt ones);
- setbackground is now able to process a compressed logo template, in order to save space;
- .Xdefaults supports the transparency mode of aterm;
- .xsession can now start/check watcher and/or flit;
- watcher will no longer overlay flit, and they were both moved to extensions;
- tc-config can now process dependency file at startup;
- fixed a few bugs in tce-load;
- /dev/loop supports 255 loop devices (max_loop=255 is still needed);
- rc.shutdown was updated to remove external calls;
- fstype was updated to remove external calls;
- in order to make the desktop environment reentrant and with better support for microcore, the startx, tc-config and .profile scripts were updated;
- added new tce-setup, in order to load all the tce apps at boot;
- tce-setup is called now by tc-config;
- the filetool.sh and tc-restore scripts implement blowfish encrypted backup;
- the default backup directory is now located in persistent tce folder;
- fixed an issue with dependency partial downloads in tce-load;
- /opt/.tcrc was updated;
- removed the checkfs boot option (the "base norestore" option can be used instead);
- optimized the code of tce-setup;
- tc-config offers now more streamlined and consistent messages at startup;
- the usbinstall script works better when it is launched from the system menu;
- isolinux.cfg was updated to include max_loop=255;
- free loop has been fixed;
- errors about extensions are now shown at boot;
- fixed tcz2ran.lst;
- fixed the 'base norestore noicons' option;
- $fstab_pid was added before the tce access;
- removed pci.ids (the pic-ids.tcz and libpci.tczl extensions can be used instead);
- in order to display the names of the extensions, during boot, the "showapps" boot code was added.