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| 2019-01-17 | liveinit: clean up that remount command |   Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2019-01-17 | 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 | 2 | -7/+5 |
| 2019-01-17 | PLASMA5: update package list | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+7 |
| 2019-01-17 | XFCE: update package list | Eric Hameleers | 3 | -0/+5 |
| 2019-01-05 | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.3.0.11.3.0.1 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2019-01-05 | 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 | 1 | -5/+10 |
| 2019-01-05 | Refreshed the package lists for alien, multilib and plasma5 repos | Eric Hameleers | 3 | -0/+10 |
| 2019-01-05 | init: the dhcpcd 'pid' file is in another location now. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -4/+15 |
| 2018-11-04 | XFCE: added ed, bc, smartmontools, xf86-input-libinput...I added ed, bc, smartmontools because they are small and someone needed it.
The xf86-input-libinput was added to fix the TrackPoint with recent versions
of the X server.
| Eric Hameleers | 3 | -0/+4 |
| 2018-09-09 | XFCE: place the commented-out packages alphabetically like before | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -14/+14 |
| 2018-09-09 | 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 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-09-04 | README.txt updated | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -5/+9 |
| 2018-09-04 | 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 | 6 | -27/+87 |
| 2018-09-04 | XFCE: some more pruning of large files to keep ISO size below 703 MB | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+20 |
| 2018-09-04 | On loading of 'distro_os.cfg' do not overwrite pre-defined values...Variables defined on the boot commandline have preference over
any variable set in the .cfg file.
| Eric Hameleers | 1 | -4/+13 |
| 2018-09-04 | liveinit: cosmetical re-arrangement | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+3 |
| 2018-09-04 | XFCE: move compiler related packages from 'min' to 'noxbase'...With the goal to make the 'min' module smaller so that potentially
we can compress it with zstd instead of xz and thus minimize the size
increase of the resulting squashfs module (~10%).
Quick benchmark with just the 'min' module zstd-compressed and the rest
xz-compressed shows more than 10% reduction in the boot-up time of the
XFCE Live OS. Unfortunately, this will add 20 MB to the ISO size which
will have to come from somewhere in order to keep the ISO size below
703 MB.
| Eric Hameleers | 2 | -5/+5 |
| 2018-09-04 | PLASMA5: syndication moved from kdepim to frameworks | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-09-01 | 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 | 2 | -24/+58 |
| 2018-09-01 | XFCE: some more pruning to manage the ISO back below CDROM max size | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+3 |
| 2018-09-01 | 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 | 1 | -1/+2 |
| 2018-09-01 | 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 | 4 | -136/+142 |
| 2018-09-01 | 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 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-08-26 | 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 | 2 | -10/+35 |
| 2018-08-26 | Rename some variables in anticipation of adding zstd compression support | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -7/+7 |
| 2018-08-05 | SLACKWARE: disable baloo | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+8 |
| 2018-08-05 | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.2.0.11.2.0.1 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-08-05 | Add modules in alphabetical order, because that is how they are assembled | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -6/+6 |
| 2018-08-05 | PLASMA5: updated package list; switched from 'testing' to 'latest' | Eric Hameleers | 2 | -3/+3 |
| 2018-06-30 | 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 | 1 | -25/+0 |
| 2018-06-27 | XFCE: keep the ISO size below 700 MB while adding required packages | Eric Hameleers | 3 | -2/+11 |
| 2018-06-25 | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.2.01.2.0 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-06-25 | 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 | 1 | -4/+15 |
| 2018-06-24 | Slackpkg started requiring opt-in to using it on slackware-current | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+6 |
| 2018-06-24 | PLASMA5: add missing packages and switch to 'testing' repository | Eric Hameleers | 2 | -1/+7 |
| 2018-06-15 | 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 | 4 | -1/+52 |
| 2018-06-15 | Add grep match colorization to the user profile | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+4 |
| 2018-06-15 | Update package lists for multilib and plasma | Eric Hameleers | 2 | -0/+4 |
| 2018-05-10 | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.81.1.9.8 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-05-10 | XFCE: try to increase compression rate a bit | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+9 |
| 2018-05-10 | Update the package lists for PLASMA5 and XFCE | Eric Hameleers | 3 | -15/+26 |
| 2018-03-31 | Adapt to new behaviour of glibc-zoneinfo and the timeconfig script | Eric Hameleers | 2 | -3/+4 |
| 2018-03-15 | XFCE: more tricks to reduce ISO size. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -2/+5 |
| 2018-03-15 | 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 | 2 | -2/+7 |
| 2018-03-15 | multilib: refresh the package list. | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+1 |
| 2018-03-14 | Slackware Live Edition: version 1.1.9.71.1.9.7 | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-03-12 | 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 | 1 | -1/+1 |
| 2018-03-12 | Remove unneeded firmware files to reduce the XFCE ISO size | Eric Hameleers | 1 | -0/+4 |
| 2018-03-12 | 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 | 2 | -1/+7 |
| 2018-03-12 | 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 | 1 | -0/+1 |
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