Live report

Just for people interested in Live Edition. My uptime is

$ uptime -p
up 5 weeks, 3 days, 17 hours, 40 minutes

no serious issues so far. My daily driver is Xfce. I run alsa only system, firefox ESR. Among websites: youtube, e-mail, news portals. I watch movies with mplayer. I built several packages. Yesterday nodejs, today qemu. Storage I use is just usb pendrive 8 GB and sd card 8 GB. All this on Lenovo ThinkPad T430 with 8 GB RAM. And I have plan to buy hard drive in future .

Are you running the Live OS in RAM or does it run from the USB stick?
I think that a full-blown Slackware Live (4 GB ISO) loaded into RAM of a 8 GB computer will quickly degrade performance when it runs out of RAM, but the smaller LEAN or XFCE ISOs could just be ideal.

It is live system on squashfs. Image is directly dd'ed into usb pendrive. System boots from pendrive. I didn't notice any performance degrade comparing to running system installed as usually on hard drive. I don't think that performance degrade can be noticed by human in terms of human activities. Only some programs may suffer of this. To build nodejs it took a couple of hours - but I have no comparison. I never built nodejs earlier.

I was curious about / on overlay file system. Nice job. But question is: can physical storage be added to overlay during system boot? Just idea. Say I have sd card. And idea is to add that storage on sd card to overlay. That sd storage would be just on top. So all changes in system would be saved. And after reboot restored. This way I would reach persistent system. Just a thought.

It's worth investigating how that feature can be added. Would take until after summer though, I am too occupied with my day job now.

Thanks.

My experiment of using on daily driver liveslak seems is going to end. Some new goals to achieve. On this video liveslak in action you can see on your own eyes how it is to work on liveslak.

I emphasize again: no hard drive, system boots from usb, additional storage are two usb drives 2GB and 8GB, abd sd card 8GB. So enjoy. This is one my very few desktop recordings - so quality not very good. But my point was to show that experience working on liveslak is not much different comparing with usual installation on hard drive.

During session on video you may won't notice that I started in terminal alpine linux qemu vm - but with -nographic option.

Again all the glory goes to AlienBob.


edit: youtube looks slow due to slow network (very), video is not very good. There are frames dropping. Well native resolution is 1600x900.