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Beta3 of Slackware Live Edition is Available

posted by takyon on Sunday December 27 2015, @10:31PM   Printer-friendly
from the not-slacking dept.

-- OriginalOwner_ writes:

Eric Hameleers blogs once again:

It took me a while to get to a level where I could do another public update of my "liveslak" scripts for the Slackware Live Edition. The previous two articles about the Live OS generated quite some feedback and I think I was able to address a lot of those remarks and suggestions in the updated code. My TODO has however only shrunk [by] one item...

A "Beta3"[1] is what we have now. My milestone for emitting a new Beta was to have a working UEFI boot. And I hope I managed that. Works here... for what it's worth.

  - What is Slackware Live Edition?

[...] We're talking about a "live OS" here, which you can run off a CDROM, a DVD, or a USB stick and does not have to be installed to a computer hard drive. You can carry the USB stick version with you in your pocket. You'll have a pre-configured Slackware OS up & running in a minute wherever you can get your hands on a computer with a USB port. The USB version is "persistent" meaning that the OS stores your updates on the stick. The CD/DVD versions (and the USB stick if you configure it accordingly) run without persistence, which means that all the changes you make to the OS are lost on reboot.

[1] The link in TFA for "Beta3" doesn't appear to be what was intended (DIY rather than ready-to-go ISOs).

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Gravis on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:00PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:00PM (#281529)

    fuck beta! [fuckbeta.com] ;)

  • (Score: 2) by Nuke on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:02PM

    by Nuke (3162) on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:02PM (#281530)

    Thanks for the painstaking explanation of what a live edition is, but I think we all knew that here.

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @12:10AM

      by Anonymous Coward on Monday December 28 2015, @12:10AM (#281542)

      Yeah. I think that, this late in the game, everyone knows that you can boot to Linux on removable media to e.g. recover Windoze passwords or un-bork a system or recover data before paving over an inferior OS.

      A bunch may also know that you can use e.g. TAILS and carry an OS in your pocket which anonymizes you (leaving no footprints online or on the host machine) and that it can be used on any box whose firmware isn't completely locked down.

      I'm not sure, however, that large numbers of folks know about persistence.
      That you can carry not only an OS but your data and preferences on the same device still seems like magic to many folks.

      -- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]

  • (Score: 4, Informative) by Gravis on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:31PM

    by Gravis (4596) on Sunday December 27 2015, @11:31PM (#281536)

    Slackware is still 100% free of systemd infection.