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Old 06-11-2021, 02:37 PM   #1
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Slack Live Edition experience


I thought that it may be useful for others if I will share my experience using this Slackware version. First of all: praise AlienBob for this excellent system. My configuration: Lenovo ThinkPad T430, without hard drive. System runs from USB pendrive - I have two SD cards (mmc) of sizes 8GB and 32GB - they serve to save data. I fully customized Xfce. When stop to work I suspend system. Works fine. I built geany, transmission, coolreader for ebooks and radio station reapers (remind no hard drive). Ktorrent is too heavy - when starts it also starts other services - say kdeconnectd (why?). This edition - the one I run offers Firefox ESR - still. I switch off totally pulseaudio and use alsa only system. Watching movies - standalone or on youtube works fine. At the end - if someone needs stable system to survive up to Slackware 15.0 release - this Live Edition is very good candidate. Install on hard drive and use it - for sure you will be very satisfied and regain belief in Slackware stability. Of course in case of full installation I suggest to switch off automatic -current updates - they for sure damage the system. Only what really is necessary - but I think someone can live for long time without updates at all. Live Edition is somehow closed, rigid. careless update for sure will break it. Better is to wait for next Live Edition.
 
Old 06-12-2021, 05:59 AM   #2
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+1 on that.

I have two (clones of each other) with XFCE & wine on them, and one software package under wine on there consuming about 7G. Alien Bob periodically makes fresh isos from current for the live usb, and there's a iso to squashfs conversion done when the usb disk is being made.

I don't really care what's on there, once I have wine, basic tools & internet. The wine is 5.18. SSD is faster than usb any day, so these serve as a 'save my a**' distro, and also for backups to usb drives. It's non-trivial to back up slackware when you're booting off slackware, with /proc, /sys, & /dev populated.

I only renew them every few years, but like everything else, they are backed up. I never trust one usb drive - a hang over from poor experiences with usb key longevity.
 
  


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