Porteus

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 12:19**

I invite everyone to try PorteuX distro. It's inspired by Slax and Porteus but with heaps of improvements, including a nice app store where you can download not just browsers but also Steam, VirtualBox, Nvidia drivers, multilib lite, messengers, emulators, etc. Performance has been improved and many issues have been fixed.

It's open source so anyone can build it from scratch. It's not limited to use Slackware 15.0 as the base system, but also Slackware current. The ISOs are available for download on the Github page, which also includes a more detailed changelog: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases

At the moment, the following desktop environments are available:
. KDE 5.23.5 (or 5.27.0 in current)
. LXDE 0.10.1
. LXQt 1.2.0
. Xfce 4.12
. Xfce 4.16
. Xfce 4.18

It's also possible to use Porteus 5 desktop environments modules (compatibility module is required and available on the Github page).

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 12:35**

Very interesting.

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 16:51**

Why Xfce 4.12, 4.16, 4.18 ?
Are there really serious differences?

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 18:19**

FYI To download an ISO click the "Show all 31 assets" link at the bottom of the PorteuX releases page.

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 18:48**

Not bad to get othes locales for all DE's. Thanks for the Next Experience

Posted: **01 Mar 2023, 19:35**

I take it PorteuX doesn't support ISO booting.

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PorteuX - The Next Experience
  checking PorteuX data
sh: true: unknown operand
sh: true: unknown operandelaying 10 seconds
 :
 :
sh: true: unknown operandelaying 2 seconds
  device not ready yet? delaying 1 seconds

PorteuX data not found.
 :

My grub2 PorteuX boot menu:

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menuentry " PorteuX " --class slackware   --class icon-porteus  {

     set linux_folder=
     set iso=/ISOs/porteux-v0.1-lxqt-1.2.0-x86_64.iso
     
     if [ -f /boot/syslinux/vmlinuz ]; then linux_folder=""; fi
     search -f $iso --set=root
     sleep -v -i 3

#     set porteus_parms="extramod=$linux_folder/Modules;$linux_folder/modsavedat noload=save.dat volume=33 reboot=cold"

     loopback loop $iso
     linux (loop)/boot/syslinux/vmlinuz from=$iso   # $porteus_parms
     initrd (loop)/boot/syslinux/initrd.xz
     echo "Booting PorteuX" 
}

Posted: **02 Mar 2023, 12:54**

Thanks for that porteus kind of remix. Will try for sure.

Posted: **02 Mar 2023, 17:52**

Do note francois even though it is based on Porteus and contains many of it's features, functions and code the from=/path/porteux.iso cheatcode noted in it's /boot/docs/cheatcodes.txt file does not work at this point. You will need to install it first before you can try it.

Posted: **03 Mar 2023, 08:20**

Hi fulalas,
I want to try porteux

Which script do I have to use

in folder boot: porteux-installer-for-linux.run
or
in folder porteux: create-iso.sh

Thanks

Posted: **06 Mar 2023, 23:29**

Just tried PorteuX. Works great. Found the audio and networking out of the box. Runs all of my Porteus 5 modules perfectly. Thank you very much.

I recently acquired an HP laptop from a pawn shop. UEFI only. Still under warranty!

Once I realized it looked for FAT32 partitions to boot I made a few 10 Gib partitions and began to dump the contents of any iso I could find into them. Now all I need to do is interrupt the boot process with F9 and use the file explorer to pick the efi boot file. No bcd editor required. No install script to run.

Most linux distros run fine. Even WinPEs believe it or not. The few that do not I try in VirtualBox.

Vic

Posted: **07 Mar 2023, 00:54**

A 250MB FAT2 partition is more than adequate to hold multiple UEFI folders. The Porteus 5.0 EFI folder is less than 1 MB.

Posted: **07 Mar 2023, 13:05**

Hi Ed.
What method for dumping any arbitrary iso less than 4 GiB into its own space for testing would you use?

Vic

Posted: **08 Mar 2023, 15:20**

Hi Vic.

I download and boot the ISOs directly via grub2 scripts. For ISOs that don't support that option like PorteuX I buy/find a USB stick if I want to test it.

For UEFI systems you need a FAT32 partition for the ISO's EFI folder but the rest of the ISO folders can be put on NTFS or EXT4 partitions. To share files between the ISO system and Windows systems NTFS is the better option.

Ed

Posted: **09 Mar 2023, 00:29**

Hi Ed.

It took me quite a while but I finally figured out how to do what I wanted with the info you provided. Lots of pain but it was great.

Thank you for pointing me in the direction I needed.

I am now able to do what I was doing before but in a cleaner way. I made a 1 Gib partition for FAT32 EFI. All EFI folders and files are in there.

I still use FAT32 partitions for WinPe stuff right now but I am now able to have EXT4 partitions for Linux distros. Yay.

Thanks again.

Vic

Posted: **09 Mar 2023, 00:52**

Vic wrote: ↑
09 Mar 2023, 00:29
I still use FAT32 partitions for WinPe stuff right now

Did you ever use Bart's 911CD stuff?