X-Slacko Slim 4.4r49 (unique, stable, and flexible)

[Marv]

I'm running r26 on several laptops, including three Pentium Ms that require the forcepae option in the kernel if it is PAE. Slim seems to run with about 3 to 5% less idle CPU than X-slacko 4.2 on those elderly machines hence my interest. Two of those laptops are just running my turns counting programs for old looms now but one still gets pretty much daily general use by a friend.

The 3.14.56 kernel in Slim as in its parent X-slacko 4.2 doesn't support this hence I swap kernels (manually in Slim as it doesn't have a z-drv). Not too hard, just extract the Slim Main SFS, copy in the extracted z-drv contents from the kernel desired, delete the old kernel files in /lib/modules, resquash and run (of course with the new kernel vmlinux). In the case of 4.1.31 I reverted the firmware to that from 4.1.30 as 4.1.31 has LOTS more firmware in it and my targeted machines are few. Haven't broken it doing it this way in quite a while

I just did a quick head-to-head comparison of 4.5.2 (my previous std swap-in kernel), 4.1.30 & 4.1.31 (in current and previous LxPupXenials) and 4.8.1 (from an LxPupSc). All boot and run satisfactorily on the 1.6GHz Pentium M 725 laptops. 4.1.30 and 4.1.31 are pretty clearly the best match to those machines in terms of video performance, CPU and memory use with 4.5.2 a pretty close second. Amazingly the 4.8.1 kernel booted and ran fine but the video FPS was about 1/4 of that of the other kernels. Obviously a kernel/xorg/driver/hardware mismatch.

So for now my Slim is using the 4.1.31 PAE kernel with firmware reverted to the 4.1.30 selection. The resquashed SFS with Open Sans fonts and a pet theme or two added comes in at 147.7 Mb.

r26 and Midori continue to work well here both on the machines above and on my less ancient core 2 duo laptops.

Thanks,

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* LDD GUI frontend and gtkhash is added
* Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 package on-demand database added (Run update PPM database to get this package database)
* Missing Puppy 5 and slacko 14.2 package database is added.
* Bugfixes on puppy scripts especially download_file, quicksetup, pburn, and update_mgr.

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... kRDbG9EdXc

[Sage]

27: Is good, thanks - a lot tidier.

[Marv]

r27 downloaded and r26 install updated. Thanks for the gtkhash and the LDD GUI. Kernel swap to 4.1.31 for the Pentium Ms done, timed at 7 minutes total. My time plus core 2 duo unsquash and HC squash time. Running well.

Thanks,

[Pelo]

About synaptic again. I have Xenialdog available. Applications provided are older than with our usual Puppies.
Older is not so important. What is important is application not available via synaptic. Salix is much more interest for apps coverage.

[belham2]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* LDD GUI frontend and gtkhash is added
* Slackware 14.0 and 14.2 package on-demand database added (Run update PPM database to get this package database)
* Missing Puppy 5 and slacko 14.2 package database is added.
* Bugfixes on puppy scripts especially download_file, quicksetup, pburn, and update_mgr.

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... kRDbG9EdXc

Hi Mistfire,

Have a very old computer I'd like to try your slim x-slacko version on. I went to download v27, and I notice there is no file integrity check possible. Is there a reason (at the least) a md5 sum for all these iterations you are releasing is not provided? There's no way for us to check if the iso gets to us in one unaltered piece.

Md5/sha1/sha256/sha512sums are relatively easy to incorporate into any upload, and your iso seems to have them. But why are they not listed in your first post of this thread??? If these file check sums are listed somewhere else, forgive my asking & not finding them. But I have looked throughout this thread, and cannot find them listed, other than a offhand reference from festus that is no longer valid.

Thanks

[uwagan]

hi is there a devx package for this? i want gcc etc..

thanks

[Geoffrey]

I'm sure that it is based on slacko-6.3.2, get the devx here http://distro.ibiblio.org/puppylinux/pu ... -6.3.2/32/

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released:

Changes:
* Some improvements in puppy scripts
* New and improved pupcamera
* Improved wine integration
* With wine application launcher

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... 3JFT0FWLVk
MD5 checksum: 5a63552b7f362855e7f5d250e6c6e141

[Sage]

28:Looked good initially. Loaded FP 10.10.x.y.z, restartX, loadFF, bbc.co.uk/tv - crash. Exit, FF, restore - OK. Search programme. Crash. Repeat all, start programme - crash. All these procedures/apps/etc. work with all other Puppies. plenty of mem/bandwidth/etc.
Still ask if Save wanted when booted into NoSave.
Sorry.
???

[belham2]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released:

Changes:
* Some improvements in puppy scripts
* New and improved pupcamera
* Improved wine integration
* With wine application launcher

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... 3JFT0FWLVk
MD5 checksum: 5a63552b7f362855e7f5d250e6c6e141

Hi Mistfire,

Just wanted to provide feedback on this latest r28 ISO: On my USB frugal folder install, I used the same 'savefile' from the previous r27 ISO, deleted everything else in the folder and copied over all the new files from the new r28. Everything still works great. Keep up the good work. Also, a big 'thank you' for throwing the md5sum in there for the latest r28

[mistfire]

28:Looked good initially. Loaded FP 10.10.x.y.z, restartX, loadFF, bbc.co.uk/tv - crash. Exit, FF, restore - OK. Search programme. Crash. Repeat all, start programme - crash. All these procedures/apps/etc. work with all other Puppies. plenty of mem/bandwidth/etc.
Still ask if Save wanted when booted into NoSave.
Sorry.
???

Did you try to boot at pristine state?

[Sage]

Live CD only, but re-initialised X.

[mistfire]

@Sage that is very strange x-slacko slim is working fine in my pc and virtual box.


In few days I will try to release a new iteration of x-slacko slim.

[edoc]

Has anyone tried the Brave browser with X-Slacko, please?

https://www.brave.com/downloads.html

Brave for Linux comes in two versions:
64 bit .deb for Debian/Ubuntu and 64 bit .rpm for Fedora/openSUSE.

[mistfire]

@edoc Brave browser has no x86 version. It will not work on x-slacko slim

[edoc]

Ahhh ... OK, thanks ... now why didn't I notice that?



Is there a Puppy version somewhat similar to X-Slacko Slim that is 64?

I am running JustLighthouse 64 but that's a Slackware-based distro that's not cross-repository friendly.

[mistfire]

@edoc sorry but I have no idea about other 64-bit puplets but you can try lxpup. It might have 64-bit version.

[mistfire]

New X-Slacko Slim iteration released

Changes:
* IrDA and bluetooth data transfer capable
* PPPOE, GPPTP, legacy grub installer, mkcramfs, and pure-ftpd is added
* Overhauled puppy scripts
* Improved pBurn
* Improved and more compact pupdial
* Pupget installer improvements
* Revisions in puppy remaster script
* PPM remove package fixes
* Improved Interface in Simple ADB and vnStat GUI

Download link: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B2FRk ... HpWSURkWkU
MD5 Checksum: 2320c84eecc61c037659a45dc46c8de0

[mistfire]

Hello I need someone to test the IrDA connectivity of x-slacko slim I could not perform that test because I have no Infrared device.