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Eric Hameleers announces
[May 18,] on the final day of my short holiday (of sorts), I prepped and released version 1.0.0 of my liveslak project. It is stable and the bugs that were reported (plus some more) have been taken care of.
The "1.0.0" marker is not the end of its development, of course. It means that I consider the project production-ready. It will be used to create Live Editions of Slackware 14.2 (64bit and 32bit) when that is released. There's still some more ideas for liveslak that I want to implement and those will become available as 1.x releases.
For demonstration purposes, I have generated a new set of ISO images using liveslak version 1.0.0. There are ISO images for a full Slackware (64bit and 32bit versions), 64bit Plasma5 and MATE variants, and the 700MB small XFCE variant (also 64bit). They are based on Slackware-current dated "Thu May 12 01:50:21 UTC 2016".
[...] I will re-write [the original blog post] into a landing page for anyone who is interested in a Live Edition of Slackware. [...] All previous articles about the liveslak project aka Slackware Live Edition are accessible through this shortcut link, by the way [links to changelogs].
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Sunday May 22 2016, @08:36PM
It's an Open Source clone of the BeOS [haiku-os.org]. BSD-licensed. Pay no attention to the fact that it's not beta yet; the stuff that really matters is quite stable, it's just that they keep trying out new ways to tile windows.
I've been using it for years and have only rarely had trouble with it. You're more likely to crash a hard drive than lose a file due to a bug.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday May 22 2016, @09:05PM
I've wondered a bit about that OS (but never got ambitious enough to actually try it).
Do you recall the size of your ISO?
How is the state of default apps|repos?
Ever have to compile an app from source?
Where did you get the source?
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 24 2016, @01:47AM
I've only compiled from source when I've been contributing to the development.
BeOS didn't have a real package manager; Haiku does.
The default apps are most of what you need, however I don't really like Pe, the "Programmer's Editor". I'd rather use vi, which does not come by default.
It has a posix layer so most *NIX apps will build out of the box. Some are included by default.
Haiku's source is at http://cgit.haiku-os.org/ [haiku-os.org]
There are nightly automated builds. Most of them are quite stable. Download the latest nightly, it will probably be OK for you.
It runs fine in a VM if you just want to try it out. It can run natively on lots of hardware, but I expect the need for more drivers is why it's not beta yet.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 24 2016, @09:14AM
has a posix layer so most *NIX apps will build out of the box
Cool.
the need for more drivers
When it comes to hardware, I've thought of Linux as one of The Big 3 for quite some time.
gregkh and the Linux Driver Project guys have Linux users quite spoiled.
Thanks for the info.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Tuesday May 24 2016, @02:30PM
Linux drivers could be informative were they not such rats' nests.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 25 2016, @12:40AM
This guy wasn't an experienced device driver hacker as such but he tweaked what he had enough to get his new gadget going.
Adding an unsupported resolution [googleusercontent.com] (orig) [goodbyemicrosoft.net]
That one was clearly not -that- big a mess.
...and, of course, I'll take *something* over what the closed-source stuff offers any day.
-- OriginalOwner_ [soylentnews.org]