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[darry19662018]

[darry19662018]

While I'm at it merry xmas and new year to all.

[6502coder]

I have been happily running the 571 builds from a flash drive, but I have avoided the 5.8 builds so far due to the remarks about the newer kernels causing noticeably slower disk writes.

Nonetheless I did a LiveCD test of the 5.8.3 r6773 build posted today. No bugs found so far.

The really good news: I did a few cursory speed tests involving copying largish (10-150 MB) files, and comparison with the same tests on the most recent 571 build showed the 5.8.3 r6773 build to be at worst 5% slower, which is statistically meaningless. In short, I see no meaningful slowdown. This was surprising to me because my ancient Celeron M processor HAS proved to be affected speedwise by the differences between the 4.x kernels in various builds of XenialPup and DPup Stretch.

[Volhout]

Dear Sailor (-or- 8Geee ?)

I have upgraded my PC's few month ago with 5.8.3CE and I am very happy with it's performance. Haven't seen any crashes, could make my PC's work on WIFI, touch, LCD backlight, video, audio, etc... And 5.8.3 accepted (automatically converted!) my save file from the old Slacko 5.7.0. So I converted...

Now I read from 6502coder (and verified it) that there is a new release R6773.

Is there any place / forum where I can folow the developments of this Slacko 5.8.3 ?

What has changed ? Is it possible for Sailor or others to give some info here ?

I can imagine that developers do not want to open a thread simply because of the unavoidable list of questions "can you include this xxxxx, I can't yyyy" that people expect help with. They create something for themselves, and post it out oc courtesy.

But please inform us what you did.....

Regards,

Volhout

[darry19662018]

Hey Volhout if you go to the first post of this thread it will have a link to go to Sailor's 5.8 drive and you will find latest build.

[darry19662018]

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[Volhout]

[darry19662018]

Hi Volhout,

Sorry not sure on that as I still happily run the older version.

[8Geee]

Most of the changes relate to the kernel itself. Kernel dot org puts up a list of supported kernels and their most recent update. This one is k3.18.133 right now. Most of the heavy lifting concerning meltdown/spectre seems done... so getting back to fixing apps.

Regards
8Geee

[6502coder]

Just did a frugal install of the recently-posted Slacko583 r6936z to my old Celeron M laptop. This is working great with Mike Walsh's Portable PaleMoon PET!

[8Geee]

I noticed in the 6936z edition (3.18.138) a few things I don't remember seeing before... but my last full atempt was 6552.

jwm is not behaving
gtk2 themes are default only
as such FF27 plugin does not hold the window settings from a modified rockstar gtk2

apparently woofCE due to an 'entangled' nature (example root/.packages moved to /var) cannot have glibc updated due to location differences. All it did was reload glibc2.15 and make me reset everything all over again.

GTK3 is OK, but I dont think migrating ff65.0.2 will go.
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Right now I'm working on ttuuxxx's updated version using k3.4.82 (OK for Atom CPU ONLY).
That is going well, and everything's configured. I will attempt glibc2.20, and cups2.2.11 when anchored down firmly. I have a ? or 2 for tux that i need answered first.

Regards
8Geee

[Sailor Enceladus]

Thanks 6502coder and 8Geee for the ongoing feedback and reports. I'm glad it's not just me playing around with those newer woof-CE builds. Thanks also to mikeslr for the Slacko 5.7.2 Community Edition, it looks like an interesting project!

[Volhout]

Hi Sailor Enceladus,

Tried you 5.7.1 on my Asus netbook that has succesfully performed for 5 years on Mick0's Slacko 5.7.0.
Had used 5.8.3 for few month, but that was less compatible with my SFS's (complained about missing libes, an libs that where not compiled with GCC 2.13....)
Running 5.7.1 now

I fed it with my savefile from 5.7.0 and it converted it. Alsmost everything worked out of the box, except …. the desktop. I had some custom icons on it, and it reverted to puppy standard.
After that was fixed I all worked. The palemoon portable pet was added (why not an SFS...?? that doesn't eat into the save file).

I however have one observation that puzzles me.

During bootup, after main sfs, adrive and zdrive are loaded, there is a line

/dev/loop3 not cleanly mounted, check forced
and some lines with inodes that are fixed.
After few reboots, the inodes all got fixed, but still the /dev/loop3 message remains, including the check.

Is there something I have to do ? Can I / should I / fix this...?

Everything seems to work okay, so maybe action is not needed. To be honest...I don't even know what an inode is...

Regards,

Volhout

[6502coder]

I have had a frugal install of Slacko583 on my old Celeron laptop for 3 months now and have been doing manual frugal updates to each newest version since r6936z. The only glitch occurred a couple of weeks ago when I attempted to update from r6967 to r7101, which resulted in a system where X was broken, at which point I did a fresh install of r7101.

Today I did a manual update to r7222. Got the much-discussed dire warning about mismatched Woof versions, which I ignored. At any rate, the update of my save-folder seems to have been successful as I am posting this now from the newly updated system.

BTW I also have DPupStretch 7.5 RC4 installed on this machine, and DPup and Slacko share the same installation of PaleMoon (Mike Walsh's portable version), which I placed in /mnt/home

[Sailor Enceladus]

Thanks 6502coder and Volhout for the reports! Interesting to hear how old savefiles work with all the woof-ce changes.