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| * | Finish the zstd compression implementation in liveslak...The new zstd compression support for squashfs modules allows for a much
snappier system because zstd decompression is 5 times faster than that of
xz (see https://sourceforge.net/p/squashfs/mailman/message/35989805/), but
at the expense of ISO sizes that are at least 10% bigger. The latter means
that we have to do some more pruning of the XFCE and PLASMA5 images to make
these fit in a CDROM and DVD image, respectively.
Here are some initial benchmarks with PLASMA5 Live ISO images,
booting in QEMU (times are in minutes:seconds):
Stage ZSTD XZ
---------------------------------------
Boot to runlevel 4 start 0:39 0:50
SDDM Login Manager visible 0:55 1:26
Plasma5 desktop ready 1:42 3:17
I also tested two of the bigger applications, measuring the time between
entering the command in a terminal and having a usable application window:
Stage ZSTD XZ
----------------------------------------
LO Writer window visible 0:17 0:34
Chromium window visible 0:09 0:14
It is obvious that a big Desktop Environment like Plasma5 where a lot of
binaries have to be loaded from their squashfs modules benefits a lot
from zstd, because after booting, the Plasma5 DE is available in
roughly 53% of the time it takes when using xz compression.
Zstd support in squashfs was added to Linux kernel 4.14. That means,
no customimzation of Slackware is required to make the Live OS work from
zstd-compressed squashfs modules.
In order to *create* these zstd-compressed squashfs modules, you will need
some custom packages at the moment, until they get added to Slackware-current:
zstd and a rebuild squashfs-tools to add the lacking zstd support to
mksqhashfs/unsquashfs.
|   Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-01 | 2 | -24/+58 |
| * | XFCE: some more pruning to manage the ISO back below CDROM max size | Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-01 | 1 | -1/+3 |
| * | When installing local packages from subdir, use 'upgradepkg'...The old use of 'installpkg' prevented upgrading an already present package
while 'upgradepkg --install-new' allows for all options.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-01 | 1 | -1/+2 |
| * | XFCE: update the package list so that the ISO stays below CDROM size...Also, split 'x_base' into 'noxbase' and 'x_base' so that in future
we can create a 'rescue' option using just 'min' and 'noxbase'.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-01 | 4 | -136/+142 |
| * | PLASMA5: do not add 'kde-wallpapers' to the ISO...These wallpapers don't really add value to the ISO and when using the
new supported compressor 'zstd' we need to trim the ISO size down to
the max size of a DVD.
The zstd compression creates ISOs that are ~10% larger than when using xz.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-01 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add zstd compression support for squashfs modules...This will provide compression ratios approaching those of xz,
while achieving decompression rations similar to lzo (5 times faster
than xz).
We will need to have a zstd package in Slackware first, and then
rebuild squashfs-tools to add zstd support.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-26 | 2 | -10/+35 |
| * | Rename some variables in anticipation of adding zstd compression support | Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-26 | 1 | -7/+7 |
| * | SLACKWARE: disable baloo | Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-05 | 1 | -0/+8 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.2.0.11.2.0.1 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-05 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add modules in alphabetical order, because that is how they are assembled | Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-05 | 1 | -6/+6 |
| * | PLASMA5: updated package list; switched from 'testing' to 'latest' | Eric Hameleers | 2018-08-05 | 2 | -3/+3 |
| * | New eliloconfig in Slackware 14.2 no longer needs our patch...The elilo package in Slackware 14.2's ./patches has our liveslak patch
to eliloconfig already incorporated.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-30 | 1 | -25/+0 |
| * | XFCE: keep the ISO size below 700 MB while adding required packages | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-27 | 3 | -2/+11 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.2.01.2.0 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-25 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Use correct 'ktown' URL in slackpkgplus.conf...If we use 'testing' repository to get the Plasma 5 packages, then the
slackpkg/slackpkg+ configuration should reference that 'testing' URL
as well, to avoid confusion when the user runs 'slackpkg upgrade-all'.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-25 | 1 | -4/+15 |
| * | Slackpkg started requiring opt-in to using it on slackware-current | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-24 | 1 | -0/+6 |
| * | PLASMA5: add missing packages and switch to 'testing' repository | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-24 | 2 | -1/+7 |
| * | Add support for on-disk OS configuration file...The configuration file must be in the liveslak main directory ('/liveslak'
by default) and be called 'DISTRO_os.cfg' where DISTRO is the lower-case
name of the distro ('slackware' by default).
The following variables can be defined in the configuration file,
one per line, in the format VAR=value:
BLACKLIST, INIT, KEYMAP, LIVE_HOSTNAME, LOAD, LOCALE, LUKSVOL, NOLOAD,
RUNLEVEL, TWEAKS, TZ, XKB.
Since the configuration file is sourced by the live init script, it is OK
to have comments in it that are prefixed with '#'.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-15 | 4 | -1/+52 |
| * | Add grep match colorization to the user profile | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-15 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | Update package lists for multilib and plasma | Eric Hameleers | 2018-06-15 | 2 | -0/+4 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.81.1.9.8 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-05-10 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | XFCE: try to increase compression rate a bit | Eric Hameleers | 2018-05-10 | 1 | -0/+9 |
| * | Update the package lists for PLASMA5 and XFCE | Eric Hameleers | 2018-05-10 | 3 | -15/+26 |
| * | Adapt to new behaviour of glibc-zoneinfo and the timeconfig script | Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-31 | 2 | -3/+4 |
| * | XFCE: more tricks to reduce ISO size. | Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-15 | 1 | -2/+5 |
| * | XFCE: rename xbase.lst to x_base.lst...The order in which the squashfs modules were created should be respected
when they are re-assembled to an overlay filesystem.
The assembly is done in lexicographical order - therefore xbase.lst
needed to be renamed to x_base.lst.
Failing to adhere to the original assembly order causes weirdness.
In my case it meant that the complete directory /usr/share/applications
as contained in xapbase.lst was invisible in the resulting overlay, causing
near-empty menus in XFCE.
Also added several packages to x_base.lst that are now part of Slackware.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-15 | 2 | -2/+7 |
| * | multilib: refresh the package list. | Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-15 | 1 | -0/+1 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.71.1.9.7 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-14 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add user 'live' to group 'input'...Group membership of 'input' is needed to access input devices that are
exposed through libinput (touch devices are only exposed through libinput)
and seems to be a requirement for Wayland.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-12 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Remove unneeded firmware files to reduce the XFCE ISO size | Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-12 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | XFCE: keep ISO size below 737.280.000 bytes (703 MB)...ghostscript is again removed to make room for new additions in -current.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-12 | 2 | -1/+7 |
| * | PLASMA5: add applications-extra:falkon...Falkon is the renamed qupzilla browser. Eventually, falkon will find
its way into Applications. Consider this a preview version.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-12 | 1 | -0/+1 |
| * | README.txt needed an update...- Explanation of the partition layout of a USB stick
when created with iso2usb.sh
- Updated URLS
- Many small fixes, mostly typos
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-03-09 | 1 | -14/+27 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.61.1.9.6 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-02-10 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | PLASMA5: added two new dependencies, cryptopp and cryfs | Eric Hameleers | 2018-02-10 | 1 | -0/+2 |
| * | PLASMA5: no longer apply 'kde4plasma5' package list...There are no KDE4 packages left in the latest Plasma 5 releases.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-02-09 | 1 | -1/+2 |
| * | PLASMA5: added new packages...frameworks: purpose
applications-extra: calligraplan
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-02-09 | 1 | -1/+3 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.51.1.9.5 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-01-19 | 1 | -2/+2 |
| * | alien pkglist: added acpilight and poppler-qt5...- acpilight is able to control the backlight brightness of a laptop screen,
this will be used by the Lumina Desktop if present.
- poppler-qt5 is a new dependency for Lumina Desktop in case you do not have
my Plasma5 'ktown' packages installed, specifically its poppler package
which already contains the required Qt5 libraries.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-01-19 | 1 | -1/+3 |
| * | Make the 'make-grub.sh' script compatible with grub-2.02...In particular, it seems that including the 'ahci' grub module caused failure
on boot, because the actual Live USB stick would not be detected and the
local harddisk would be detected as (ahci0).
The script has also been enhanced so that the 'grub-mkimage' commandline will
not get fed any non-existing module, which would otherwise abort the command.
| Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-27 | 1 | -8/+18 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.41.1.9.4 | Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-23 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | PLASMA5: add new package | Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-23 | 1 | -0/+1 |
| * | XFCE: add new required packages | Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-23 | 2 | -0/+3 |
| * | Multilib module: add lzlib, plzip and Mako | Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-23 | 1 | -0/+3 |
| * | README: small updates and polishing to align with the Wiki text | Eric Hameleers | 2017-12-23 | 1 | -5/+5 |
| * | XFCE: add some new dependencies for iproute2 and xfce4-terminal...Added:
+ libcap-ng
+ libmnl
+ libtasn1
+ pcre2
Removed:
- xpdf (started depending on qt which we don't have in the XFCE ISO)
| Eric Hameleers | 2017-11-23 | 3 | -1/+6 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.31.1.9.3 | Eric Hameleers | 2017-11-22 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add support for removing packages in a subsequent squashfs module...A pkglist has a certain syntax:
- Lines starting with '#' are considered comments and are ignored.
- Empty lines will be ignored.
- A line not containing '%' is considered to name a single package
to install/upgrade.
- Two strings separated by '%' are considered as 'old' and 'new' package
where the old package will be upgraded by the new package.
This is useful in situations where the package names differ (udev -> eudev).
- One string with '%' at the end is considered a package removal request.
The string in front of the '%' is the package name to be removed.
This syntax was added in liveslak-1.1.9.3.
| Eric Hameleers | 2017-11-22 | 1 | -32/+40 |
| * | PLASMA5: set QtWebkit as the Konqueror rendering engine if available | Eric Hameleers | 2017-11-22 | 1 | -0/+11 |
| * | Show information about CDROM and DVD media sizes at the end...This way you can check in a pinch whether your new ISO will fit or not.
| Eric Hameleers | 2017-11-22 | 1 | -0/+2 |
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