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| * | Allow cusomization of the UidNumber for the live user account...By default the UidNumber which is used to create the live account is: 1000.
The variable LIVEUIDNR can be set to another unused value if you want.
Remember, customizations go into 'make_slackware_live.conf'
so that you do not have to edit 'make_slackware_live.sh'.
|   Eric Hameleers | 2020-03-31 | 1 | -1/+4 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.51.3.5 | Eric Hameleers | 2020-02-20 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | make_slackware_live.sh code to transform the new templates into scripts | Eric Hameleers | 2020-02-20 | 1 | -1/+11 |
| * | Allow direct scanning via xsane (no temporary intermediate files) in Gimp...This was fixed in Slackware as well in the meantime, but it does not harm
to keep it in here.
| Eric Hameleers | 2020-02-20 | 1 | -0/+6 |
| * | make_slackware_live.sh: some cosmetic fixes. | Eric Hameleers | 2020-02-20 | 1 | -58/+67 |
| * | Remove KDE4BASE and add DAW as a Live Variant....Nobody used the 1 GB ISO with a stripped KDE4 anyway, so I removed it.
DAW is a 'Work In Progress': I want a Ditigal Audio Workstation as a
Live Slackware OS with Plasma5. I want to learn if Plasma5 is lean and
fast enough for realtime audio processing. Probably it also needs PAM,
which will enter the main distro soon.
| Eric Hameleers | 2020-02-20 | 1 | -11/+85 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.4.1 | Eric Hameleers | 2020-01-24 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Do not add CACert certificates for now; website is offline | Eric Hameleers | 2020-01-24 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | make_slackware_live.sh: updated copyright year with 2020 | Eric Hameleers | 2020-01-24 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.41.3.4 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-12-26 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Updates to package lists. Reduce Plasma5 ISO size...Note that the Plasma5 ISO size reduction was achieved by removing
almost all of the 'alien' packages which originate in my regular
package repositories.
Which means if you want a Plasma5 Live with calibre, libreoffice,
qbittorrent, vlc and all the other goodies, you will have to create
a persistent Live USB stick and add my packages as "addon modules".
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-12-26 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Remove '--no-absolute-filenames' from cpio invocations...Since cpio 2.13, this option strips '/' and '../' from symbolic and
hard links during extraction of a cpio archive like our initramfs.
This is implemented as a fix for CVE-2015-1197 but breaks the initrd.
And leaving out this option does not have the adverse effect
I always thought it would have... archive extraction is still done
into the current directory and not in the filesystem root.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-20 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | PLASMA5: set the OS name to 'Slackware Live' in 'System Information' | Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-13 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.31.3.3 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-02 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | NFS root (PXE boot): add virtio drivers required for older VM...The virtio_pci driver is required in some cases when using older
types of virtual machine software.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-02 | 1 | -20/+22 |
| * | Replace @ULANG@ with the actual language in syslinux submenus | Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-01 | 1 | -0/+2 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.2.51.3.2.5 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-01 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Fix a logic bug in finding packages | Eric Hameleers | 2019-11-01 | 1 | -13/+17 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.2.41.3.2.4 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-09-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | XFCE: remove man pages to shrink ISO size | Eric Hameleers | 2019-09-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.2.31.3.2.3 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-07-13 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.2.21.3.2.2 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-06-13 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Make the EmojiOne TTF font universally available | Eric Hameleers | 2019-06-13 | 1 | -0/+14 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.21.3.2 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-05-11 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | PLASMA5: add realtime capabilities like Studioware has too | Eric Hameleers | 2019-05-11 | 1 | -1/+10 |
| * | XFCE: file removals to bring ISO below CDROM size again | Eric Hameleers | 2019-05-11 | 1 | -11/+24 |
| * | make_slackware_live.sh: small cleanup | Eric Hameleers | 2019-05-11 | 1 | -1/+0 |
| * | Make the '-m' commandline switch more universal...The '-m' parameter of the 'make_slackware_live.sh' script allows you
to add more packages to the Live ISO without modifying any of the script's
"SEQ_*" package sequence variables.
However, the script would prepend "pkglist:" to the argument value, which
is redundant since 'pkglist' is the default anyway.
By removing this prepend string we can now allow a syntax like this:
"-m local:foo" to add a series of packages in the subdirectory 'foo'
of the 'local' (or 'local64') directory more easily.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-04-23 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Add missing template vars to upslak.sh...Several template vars were added to liveinit.tpl but I had forgotten
to also incorporate those in the upslak.sh script.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-04-14 | 1 | -1/+2 |
| * | Configure kdesu to use sudo instead of su...That will cause kdesu to ask for the 'live' password instead of the
'root' password.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-27 | 1 | -0/+7 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.1.1...Minor version bump in order to release a new Plasma5 Live ISO.
1.3.1.1 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.1...Main highlight is that PXE booting is working again.
1.3.1 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-15 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Fix PXE boot. Fix pxeserver. Add support for PXE-booting UEFI-based PC's...Note that UEFI PXE-boot is not yet working, I do not know why.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-15 | 1 | -5/+9 |
| * | Add grub-mkimage to the list of required programs | Eric Hameleers | 2019-02-15 | 1 | -2/+2 |
| * | Quell the noise generated by dhcpcd on boot | Eric Hameleers | 2019-01-23 | 1 | -0/+4 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.0.21.3.0.2 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-01-17 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Follow the Slackware init with respect to readonly root on boot...The live init script creates a /etc/fastboot file to prevent any
file system check on boot. This is cleaner than hacking rc.S and failing.
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-01-17 | 1 | -3/+0 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.0.11.3.0.1 | Eric Hameleers | 2019-01-05 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | KDE4: take care of changes in search/semantic backends...- virtuoso-ose is no longer part of Slackware.
- akonadi backend to be used is now called SQLITE instead of SQLITE3
| Eric Hameleers | 2019-01-05 | 1 | -5/+10 |
| * | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.0...The fairly large version bump is warranted because this is the first
release to support zstd compression. The resulting ISO will boot to
a usable desktop environment almost twice as fast as previous releases
of liveslak. THe runtime behaviour will also be a lot snappier.
This should make a lot of people happy.
Note that I have to keep the XFCE ISO xz-compressed to keep its size
below 703 MB. The other ISOs will use zstd compression, adding roughly
10% to the ISO size but speeding up the Live OS with 60% or more.
1.3.0 | Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-09 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| * | Make the default language of the Live ISO configurable...Added a new parameter to 'make_slackware_live.sh' script:
-l <localization>
For example, create a liveslak ISO with dutch as the default language
instead of US english:
# ./make_slackware_live.sh -l nl
Using this parameter you can onfigure a different default language
for the resulting ISO image. The default localization if you do not
supply this parameter remains "us" as before.
The boot menu offers a selection of other languages/localizations
to pick from (currently you can select any of 'be br da gb de de_ch es
fr fr_ch it ja nl pt ru se us') but now you can create your own brand
of liveslak ISO with your own language as the default.
| Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-04 | 1 | -11/+49 |
| * | XFCE: some more pruning of large files to keep ISO size below 703 MB | Eric Hameleers | 2018-09-04 | 1 | -2/+20 |
| * | 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 | 1 | -20/+35 |
| * | 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 | 1 | -2/+2 |
| * | 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 | 1 | -7/+31 |
| * | 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 |
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