r/tinycorelinux

It was a busy day IRL and I just now got around to installing it.

I don't think it changed any since the beta release. I'll be installing it this afternoon.

TinyCore 16.1 has been released today with minor fixes.

Both 32-bit and 64-bit flavours are up, but as usual, no "64-bit Plus" version exists, solidifying my theory that the 64-bit version is a second class citizen ;-)

Hey, this is weird, but Windows Defender reports the "Woreflint.A!cl Trojan" on all three downloads on the official page:

http://tinycorelinux.net/downloads.html

Doesn't happen on any other download from the web, my machine is a brand new installation and shouldn't be infected, virus scans are negative.

Virustotal seems to find nothing though.https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/edc33c5ed05d6c2512df5da48567f52be08d42c4965ffdaf110c9a2d221170c0/detection

Probably a false positive.

Edit: Can confirm from another unrelated machine. You can

Looks like a minor update, but I'll install it later today.

If you're a TinyCore fan, check this out. spirit OS is a curated distro based on TinyCore. Never heard of it till now. From their home page:

Spirit OS is a lightweight remaster of Tiny Core Linux 16.1, designed for very old 32-bit computers (without UEFI). It includes IceWM 3.6.0, full multimedia support (video/music with codecs), Wi-Fi tools, and a lightweight browser. Powered by glibc 2.40 and Linux kernel 6.12.11-tinycore, it's everything you need to bring your old PC back to life in 2025.

Included Software

• IceWM – A lightweight, classic window manager with taskbar and menu.
• Dillo – An ultra-light web browser for very low-resource systems.
• Flv

I've been using it non-stop since the alpha came out in early February. It's rock solid and had a few nice updates.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

Your top 10 posts:

• "Windows Defender finds Woreflint.A!cl Virus in all three Downloads on Official Site" by u/adsci
• "[Happy Cakeday, r/tinycorelinux! Today you're 8](https://www.reddit.com/r/tinycorelinux/comments/k02z2p)" by u/AutoModerator
• "creating a shared folder in Tiny Core Linux with a VM (already almost done)" by u/AncapElijah
• "[Why doesn't TinyCore us

Downloading it now... As with the alpha, I'm doing a full install in parallel with the alpha cur (and 16.2 and so on).

I ran the alpha for 3 weeks straight and had zero problems with it and, honestly, I don't think there were any changes between the alpha and the beta - but it's easy enough to do a fresh install that there's no point in -not- doing due diligence and all that.

I saw this video of the creator and maintainer of the ToyBox, comparing it with the BusyBox (which he used to maintain previously) on the Linux Foundation channel on YouTube. He pointed out that ToyBox uses almost half the resources to accomplish the same task as BusyBox. It is very tiny and optimized compared to BusyBox. And it is probably a good enough product as it is shipped with Android (which is the most used Linux distro out there).

As ToyBox is almost half in size compared to BusyBox, in my opinion it will reduce the size on TinyCore image significantly if used in it, without sacrificing on t