Tiny Core Linux 2.1 Uses Just 48 MB RAM At Boot
A few months ago, Downloadtube.com has made popular the fascinating Linux distribution Tiny Core Linux. It is based on Linux 2.6 kernel, Busybox, Tiny X, Fltk, and Jwm. The new stable release of Tiny Core Linux 2.1 has just 11 MB in size and requires at boot only 48 MB RAM. You can run Tiny Core Linux from CD-ROM, USB drive and hard drive at an incredible speed, even on older machines. Version 2.1 of Tiny Core Linux runs also entirely in RAM, delivering you a customizable X desktop. It comes with new features, such as the better support of laptops and many improvements.
Among the new features existing on a long list, you will notice the existence of usbinstall, a command line tool intended to install to pendrive, usbhdd, usbzip, or usbext, as well as of upgrade_tce.sh, a command line script, an extremely conservative batch upgrade script. There are also updated startx and xsetup.sh with support for additional X server core elements.
From the available applications, ready to be installed with a few mouse clicks, you will find: Opera browser, Kompozer, Inkscape, Mplayer and others, which will permit you to run multimedia files, read email, connect to other devices through a BlueTooth and practically successfully execute any desired task.
Tiny Core Linux 2.1 is available for free download as Live CD ISO. It can be used to bring back to life any old computer, because this Linux distribution performs optimally on this kind of hardware.
What Is New In Tiny Core Linux 2.1 (change log):
-New modutils results in much space savings.
-New changed from using initramfs to tmpfs for better support of df and mount bind option.
-New squashfs module to prevent spurious squashfs errors upon boot.
-New aterm for better interaction with appbrowser.
-New waitforX eliminates WM timing issues, update your .xsession.
-New busybox to 1.13.4 - command line history set to 150.
-New usbinstall, a command line tool to install to pendrive, usbhdd, usbzip, or usbext.
-New upgrade_tce.sh command line script, an extremely conservative batch upgrade script.
-New added modules hwmon & rfkill for better support of laptops.
-Updated virtual hard drive to support persistent home on a virtual hard drive.
-Updated desktop.sh for dynamic wbar adds exec - eliminates extra shell.
-Updated jwm_makemenu for dynamic menu adds exec - eliminates extra shell.
-Updated startx with support for additional X server core elements.
-Updated xsetup.sh for support of additional X server core elements.
-Updated tc-config & tc-restore.sh with norestore moved from tc-restore.sh to tc-config.
-Updated tce-wget, the command line tool for fetching extensions.
-Updated tc-config, crond & sshd moved to after restore for better support of user selected options.
-Updated tc-functions. Added space to end of searched devices for better mountpoint detection.
-Updated screenshot to remove extra delimiters in date section of filename.
-Fallback to prior lspci for default detail report.
-Fixed bug in ‘nofstab’ boot option.
-Deleted memdisk and mbr.bin as they are available in extensions.
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