Author Topic: LINUX: Free book for the Tiny Core Linux distro (Read 15,382 times)

40hz · « **on:** March 11, 2014, 02:42 AM »

This was recently posted over at Distrowatch:

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ewemoa · « **Reply #1 on:** March 12, 2014, 12:07 AM »

Also skimmed it -- looks like one could spend many hours tweaking! IIUC, the version of the book I looked at seems to cover the 4.x series -- the most recent version seems to be 5.2. Not sure how different the two series are but details might be available via the Final Releases section of the forums.

Thanks for sharing

40hz · « **Reply #2 on:** March 12, 2014, 02:28 AM »

^From what I can see, the major changes seem to have been uodating the kernal to 3.8.13, busybox to 1.21.1 , and Xorg to 7.7 which shouldn’t affect the information found in the book very much if at all.

Quote from: ewemoa on March 12, 2014, 12:07 AM

Thanks for sharing

You're more than welcome!

ewemoa · « **Reply #3 on:** March 12, 2014, 07:13 AM »

SCM extensions seemed to have been dropped in the 5.x series:

http://forum.tinycorelinux.net/index.php/topic,15895.0.html

Found this confusing because:

http://tinycorelinux.net/

mentioned:

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There are no major changes to the base, but X libs have been updated to Xorg-7.7 and imlib2, libjpeg and libpng have been factored out of the base. In addition, sce extensions have been dropped from this release.

May be a typo (sce -> scm)?

Found this nice picture:

http://tinycorelinux.net/arch_core.html

I guess it hasn't been updated for 5.x.

Stoic Joker · « **Reply #4 on:** March 12, 2014, 11:58 AM »

Hm... If I could get Samba running on the base core edition/version(?) in a VM. That would be a perfect place to study/play with Linux.

(Don't mind me...I have these moments periodically)