NOX: Bowlful (i686) Development Notes
Posted: Tue Jul 08, 2014 7:52 pm
I'm very happy to announce the immediate availability of the development release "LinuxBBQ Bowlful", a noX edition for 32-bit that runs on a Slackware 14.1 base.
The kernel in this release is version 3.10.17 (the "longterm" release kernel), the base is built with only the full A package set (REC), and a sane selection from the AP, L (some libraries) and N package sets, as well as sbopkg for easier installation of moar packages, ncdu for visual representation of the file system and UnionFS-Fuse for the creation of bootable snapshots. This means, you have working bbq tools (careful, not all of them do work here!), dialogs, alsa, mpg123, DHCP, gcc, make, tmux and gpm.
Please remember that this is a development version - it is installable with "sudo bbqinstaller", though this hasn't been tested fully. Snapshots can not be created with "bbqsnapshot" yet. The bash aliases are not linked to slackpkg, so please read up on how to use slackpkg and sbopkg.
Slackware has an excellent documentation online, be sure to use it. In a nutshell, most things can be managed in /etc/rc.d/, for example network in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. If you want to have DHCP running on eth0 in the live session, run "sudo dhcpcd" after booting up. You should be connected in no time.
Read more in the superb slackbook: http://slackbook.org/html/book.html
This release is intentionally kept pretty minimal - no X server, no framebuffer terminal, no additional extras like python (if you install it with 'slackpkg install python[TAB]' you will also be able to use VIM instead of VI).
Please report back how things go -- if libraries are missing, please google first, actually everything can be downloaded from different mirrors, and installed using "installpkg FILENAME.tgz/txz/tlz/tbz. installpkg is like dpkg, slackpkg is like APT. ;)
And before you ask "But why another Slackware?"
The answer is quite easy: slackware is a pretty huge distro, it fits a DVD or a half dozen CDs. Of course you can go Salix or Zenwalk, but they don't offer noX versions. I wanted to have a kind of 'netinstall iso of killx', but one that comes with some bbqtools, GRUB2 and sudo, and that can be put on an ISO, shared and remastered. So, a bowlful of Slack, you just need a pipe and a lighter.
Happy Slacking!
username: bbq (autologin on TTY1) / root
password: bbq
ISO (238MB or so) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... slackware/
Upload ongoing, please wait (30-60 mins) until the servers are synced ;)
The kernel in this release is version 3.10.17 (the "longterm" release kernel), the base is built with only the full A package set (REC), and a sane selection from the AP, L (some libraries) and N package sets, as well as sbopkg for easier installation of moar packages, ncdu for visual representation of the file system and UnionFS-Fuse for the creation of bootable snapshots. This means, you have working bbq tools (careful, not all of them do work here!), dialogs, alsa, mpg123, DHCP, gcc, make, tmux and gpm.
Please remember that this is a development version - it is installable with "sudo bbqinstaller", though this hasn't been tested fully. Snapshots can not be created with "bbqsnapshot" yet. The bash aliases are not linked to slackpkg, so please read up on how to use slackpkg and sbopkg.
Slackware has an excellent documentation online, be sure to use it. In a nutshell, most things can be managed in /etc/rc.d/, for example network in /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf. If you want to have DHCP running on eth0 in the live session, run "sudo dhcpcd" after booting up. You should be connected in no time.
Read more in the superb slackbook: http://slackbook.org/html/book.html
This release is intentionally kept pretty minimal - no X server, no framebuffer terminal, no additional extras like python (if you install it with 'slackpkg install python[TAB]' you will also be able to use VIM instead of VI).
Please report back how things go -- if libraries are missing, please google first, actually everything can be downloaded from different mirrors, and installed using "installpkg FILENAME.tgz/txz/tlz/tbz. installpkg is like dpkg, slackpkg is like APT. ;)
And before you ask "But why another Slackware?"
The answer is quite easy: slackware is a pretty huge distro, it fits a DVD or a half dozen CDs. Of course you can go Salix or Zenwalk, but they don't offer noX versions. I wanted to have a kind of 'netinstall iso of killx', but one that comes with some bbqtools, GRUB2 and sudo, and that can be put on an ISO, shared and remastered. So, a bowlful of Slack, you just need a pipe and a lighter.
Happy Slacking!
username: bbq (autologin on TTY1) / root
password: bbq
ISO (238MB or so) at http://sourceforge.net/projects/linuxbb ... slackware/
Upload ongoing, please wait (30-60 mins) until the servers are synced ;)