Bundles: working toward a better porteus

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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#16 by Blaze » 11 Jun 2017, 18:34

brokenman wrote:To help things along on the linux side, I have created an ISO with multiple partitions inside. People can use "dd" to put the iso onto a USB. The result is a USB device with a fat32 partition1 (with the boot files) and an ext4 partition2 with the porteus files. No need to know how to partition a USB device because the dd tool takes care of it all.
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#17 by Ed_P » 11 Jun 2017, 21:05

brokenman wrote:No need to know how to partition a USB device because the dd tool takes care of it all.
Gee, I boot Porteus from USB drives without partitioning them. :)
Blaze wrote:For Windows can be used Rufus - more info here
For Windows Easy2Boot can be used also. For more Easy2Boot Porteus info see here: 73 - Try Porteus with persistence booting from an ISO.
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#18 by Bogomips » 11 Jun 2017, 21:22

Ed_P wrote:IMO Too much confusion over bundles vs modules
TTBOMK all bundles are modules, but not all modules are bundles. :D AFAIK a bundle is a module with more than 1 package.
Ed_P wrote:It seemed to me the concept was to develop "bundles" for every app in USM whether there was a need for them or not which I don't agree with.
On the other hand some people make enormous modules using usm, while others can make much smaller modules with better choice of options for dependencies for the same initial package. 8)
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#19 by Evan » 12 Jun 2017, 07:45

brokenman wrote:
BTW Nice to see you more active again brokenman.
Thanks. I knew the first half of this year would be tough. The second half will also be tough, but I will try to be around a little more.
It would be nice if you could put out a Monthly post like other projects that do a Blog or Roadmap.

Even if it's just one line for the rest of the year to tell us that you're busy and we can all piss off until next month { just like a linus torvalds rant :) } then at least users can safely donate their time and money knowing that you have not given up and will be back eventually.

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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#20 by donald » 12 Jun 2017, 08:03

-- bundles --
It will all start with a list (poll?) of the (10?) "most wanted" applications.
Let's see what comes out..

To pre build a module for every single mini app is somehow overkill.

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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#21 by Evan » 12 Jun 2017, 08:11

Couldn't it just be made easier in some way to use SlackBuilds as a single click without having to hunt down dependencies and fix symlinks?

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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#22 by Bogomips » 12 Jun 2017, 11:19

Evan wrote:It would be nice if you could put out a Monthly post like other projects that do a Blog or Roadmap.
Best suggestion you've made so far, IMHO.. :good:
Evan wrote:users can safely donate their time and money knowing that you have not given up and will be back eventually.
Does away with feeling of insecurity which I presume, gets to quite a few users from time to time. :unknown:
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#23 by ncmprhnsbl » 12 Jun 2017, 23:02

donald wrote:-- bundles --
It will all start with a list (poll?) of the (10?) "most wanted" applications.
Let's see what comes out..
to me, this would be a sensible approach..
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#24 by francois » 13 Jun 2017, 02:39

A little step for man, ...
Small is beautiful.
I support this proposition.
Prendre son temps, profiter de celui qui passe.

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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#25 by Bogomips » 13 Jun 2017, 11:24

Propose donald for head of electoral commission, and to be in charge of taking nominations for bundles, :D
francois as polling officer to set up the poll and to determine duration of poll. Evan can be on the hustings. ;)
In the meantime there is nothing to stop us from getting our very own favourite bundles uploaded? :roll:
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Re: Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#26 by fulalas » 14 Jun 2017, 04:13

I don't know if this helps, but most* of Arch Linux packages are compatible with Porteus. For Porteus x86 I think it's a matter of plug 'n play. For Porteus x64 you usually just need to rename /usr/lib to /usr/lib64 and /usr/lib32 to /usr/lib, since Arch x64 has a different folder nomenclature -- I can't understand why Linux distros diverge on this regard...

Let's take Wine Staging, for example: https://www.archlinux.org/packages/mult ... e-staging/ . After extracting it, we'll have /usr/lib and /usr/lib32. By just renaming them and creating a module from it, you'll have a working Wine module for Porteus x64. Of course you can also remove include, man, locale folders in order to reduce the module size.

The advantage of this approach is clear: Arch Linux is constantly compiling (I'm mean, like crazy!) new versions of almost all Linux programs I'm aware of. Also, their website is very clean and direct to the point :good:

*Some programs, like Qmmp, make internal calls to /usr/lib folder, so their x64 versions won't work with Porteus, unless you put a symlink inside /usr/lib pointing to Porteus correct folder /usr/lib64/xxx

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Post#27 by francois » 28 May 2018, 19:51

So to relaunch donald proposition, what would be these ten mostly used applications?
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Post#28 by brokenman » 31 May 2018, 12:10

Please do respond guys. It would be nice to see an idea grow legs.
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Post#29 by Ed_P » 31 May 2018, 15:17

My list. Some of which already exist.

1. Internet access
2. Browser
3. Flash player for browser
4. Java player for browser - Slaxmax's Java module Tip: Build your own Java Oracle module
5. Printing
6. Tight VNC
7. Games - like donald's xmahjong
8. Kodi
9. Picture editing - similar to Window's Paint capabilities. Not too elaborate.
10. Way to capture streaming video for later watching. Football, basketball, soccer, Olympics, etc.
11. GParted
12. PK-zip or 7-zip

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  1. USM (Package Manager) - not bad to add ability for updates via Slackware-current mirrors
  2. Porteus Updater (Global and small updates)
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Mission, goals and mean: working toward a better porteus

Post#30 by francois » 31 May 2018, 17:45

libreoffice
Installing LibreOffice on pen drive

Code: Select all

root@porteus:~# update-libreoffice
kodi
Kodi Krypton
https://filehorst.de/d/cIeazCkq
gimp
Gimp-2.10.4 for Porteus 4.0
https://mega.nz/#!vAZiBAwI!IssXbUt3G0B6 ... rt46OtMiOc
vlc
shotcut
pitivi
fotoxx
photivo
kde-games for kde
gparted
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