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2021-01-12Implement a small Console OS - a rescue environment in RAM1.3.9 Eric Hameleers1-5/+11
This uses two squashfs modules that are currently only found in the LEAN and XFCE images: 'min' and 'noxbase'. These two provide a functional console-only Slackware with a lot of useful programs. It will connect to a DHCP server automatically and it also contains the 'setup2hd' script to be able to install Slackware from a network mirror. And since the Console OS gets loaded into RAM, you can remove your USB stick after booting and use that stick for other purposes. Use-case: - You have one computer with a network connection and one USB stick, and want to create a persistent Slackware Live on USB. - Download an ISO supporting 'Console OS' to the computer's hard drive, and transfer the ISO to the USB stick using the computer's ISO imaging tools, making the stick bootable but not persistent. - Boot from the USB stick, select the "Console OS in RAM" option. - After you logged into the Console Slackware, mount the computer's hard drive. - Use the 'iso2usb.sh' script that comes with liveslak to extract the ISO content to the USB stick, making it persistent. See the README.txt for instructions. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Implemented as an extension of the liveslak 'toram' boot parameter. Adding 'toram=core' to the boot commandline will load circa 500 MB of squashfs modules into RAM and boot into a sparse but functional console environment. For supported Live variants (currently LEAN and XFCE) the script 'make_slackware_live.sh' will automatically add a menu item "Console OS in RAM" to the Syslinux and Grub bootloaders, using this 'toram=core' parameter. TODO: add this as an option to all liveslak variants. Not so trivial to do.
2021-01-12XFCE: start CUPS only if cupsd is installed Eric Hameleers1-2/+6
2021-01-12Add Kwayland profile scripts to make Plasma Wayland behave better Eric Hameleers1-0/+18
Implementing LuckyCyborg's proposal from this post: https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/requests-for-current-14-2-15-0-a-4175620463/page432.html#post6206168 Let's see whether this works.
2021-01-12Add a .screenrc file for some more comfort during SCREEN sessions Eric Hameleers1-0/+43
2021-01-12Fix the rc.gpm script generation Eric Hameleers1-13/+14
2021-01-12No longer make 'us american english' the default for liveslak Eric Hameleers2-5/+13
Define a 'generic english' to be the new default, with UTC as its timezone.
2021-01-12liveinit: avoid an error visible during boot Eric Hameleers1-1/+2
2021-01-12Re-order pkglists for Console OS and to fix XFCE notification area Eric Hameleers6-16/+14
XFCE notification area suddenly requires libdbusmenu and gobject-introspection. Also, I fixed Plasma5 Vaults in the LEAN image by adding fuse.
2021-01-06Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.8.41.3.8.4 Eric Hameleers1-1/+1
2021-01-06Add a new live variant: LEAN Eric Hameleers9-35/+33
The new 'LEAN' variant of liveslak is a 1.5 GB ISO, containing basic but powerful XFCE and Plasma5 desktop environments. Useful if you want a small-ish Live OS but you feel that the XFCE ISO is too seveery stripped for your purposes.
2021-01-06Fix /etc/localtime file, needs to be a symlink Eric Hameleers2-10/+7
2021-01-06DAW: updated package lists and fixing menu icon display Eric Hameleers1-3/+3
2021-01-06Some cosmetic changes to comments Eric Hameleers1-3/+3
2021-01-06Further updates for the PLASMA5 to KTOWN rename Eric Hameleers2-9/+9
2021-01-06PLASMA5 variant renamed to KTOWN Eric Hameleers5-17/+14
Since Plasma5 is now actually a part of Slackware, renaming the old PLASMA5 variant to KTOWN signals where these packages are coming from. The KTOWN variant will be used again once new development of ktown packages commences (perhaps offering Plasma6).
2020-12-30Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.8.31.3.8.3 Eric Hameleers1-1/+1
Small version bump needed for a re-spin of the DAW ISO. The new kernel enabled a PC Speaker driver which grabbed the default hardware device and JACK does not work with it. Patrick has now blacklisted snd-pcsp in the eudev package, and all is well again.
2020-12-28Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.8.21.3.8.2 Eric Hameleers1-1/+1
2020-12-28DAW: make all plugins available to the user Eric Hameleers1-0/+6
2020-12-28Fix logic error in finding package full name from its basename Eric Hameleers1-1/+1
2020-12-28DAW: some of the configuration has moved from liveslak to daw_base package Eric Hameleers1-15/+30
2020-12-28Attempt to let polkit treat 'wheel' group members as admins Eric Hameleers1-0/+8
2020-12-28Prefer ktown 'latest' to 'testing' repository Eric Hameleers1-5/+5
The 'testing' repository is not guaranteed to be available.
2020-12-28liveinit: fix a chown command Eric Hameleers1-1/+1
2020-12-28DAW: update package lists Eric Hameleers3-4/+12
2020-12-28Update liloconfig.patch to work with the latest -current change Eric Hameleers1-41/+22
2020-12-28Update helptexts for syslinux and grub boot screens Eric Hameleers2-0/+16
2020-12-28DAW: wallpaper images moved out of liveslak and into daw_base package Eric Hameleers5-0/+0