Porteus

Firmware was removed from the kernel source and is now handled by the distro packages. You can get all the firmware in the kernel-firmware slackware package.
http://packages.slackware.com

Thanks. I'll apply these patches. Further patches are welcome.

Thanks alsass,

The patches would be appreciated.

mloop is just a script to ease mounting of file systems. It's the file system that is read-only as is reported in the above output. mount -o loop /path/to/module.xzm /mnt/loop mount -o loop /path/to/savefile.dat /mnt/loop You will get two different results with the above commands. One writable and o...

Probably tonight. I will upload the base ISO for desktop maintainers to create desktops around.

I'll see if I can add slackwarepatches to the GUI.

slackware-patches IS slackware.

jssouza wrote: ↑

08 Mar 2018, 12:16

I guess this is now a general problem in all porteus scripts that check /proc/cmdline.

I the next release you may now check the single file /etc/bootcmd.cfg

I understand the concept but why not have the lines in linuxrc copy all the cheatcodes from the porteus-v4.0-$ARCH.cfg file into the /proc/cmdline file when booting Perhaps not. /proc/cmdline is a process file. It's not writable even as root during boot and it is used to communicate with the kernel...

cp /etc/bootcmd.cfg /proc/cmdline work?

No. No. Absolutely not. This is a process file created every boot. I've put a few lines in linuxrc to copy all used cheatcodes from both /proc/cmdline and the porteus-v4.0-$ARCH.cfg file into a single config file so all scripts can just check one file.

<r><QUOTE author="Ed_P" post_id="63111" time="1520572831" user_id="1571"><s>[quote=Ed_P post_id=63111 time=1520572831 user_id=1571]</s> Maybe an early run routine that merges the .cfg file cheatcodes into the cmdline ones would be an easier approach. <e>[/quote]</e></QUOTE>Splendid idea! I'll see if...

Thanks jssouza,

I know there are many cheatcodes that won`t work. It`s a matter of me tracking them all down and adding the extra check. Thanks for the list.

I know SourceForge is under a DoS attack but I thought all the Slackware files were stored on the mirrors' sites. LIBS.TXT.gz is not a slackware file. It's the file that slackware does not have that USM creates in order to know dependencies. It is stored on sourceforge. I had assumed sourceforge wo...

The entire basis of modern day parallel computing has been exploited. This is not the end of 'spectre like' attack vectors.

For those interested, some time ago I added: pkexec-add-application

This little script adds apps to pkexec.