PorteuX 0.7 has been released

[porteux]

Exciting new release of PorteuX 0.7

1. fixed gtk+2 Adwaita theme cursor click on text box having wrong offset
2. added rootmount cheatcode which mounts rootcopy folder instead of copying, being faster at boot and consuming less RAM — more information in /boot/docs/cheatcodes.txt
3. added HiDPI support in MATE and Xfce
4. added support to create and check exfat partitions
5. added support to F2FS
6. added power-profiles-daemon in KDE
7. changed aufs branches limit from 511 to 32767, allowing more xzm modules to be loaded
8. changed initrd to load kernel input modules, allowing user interaction with more devices
9. changed ramsize cheatcode default value from 60% to 85%
10. changed gpicview to be able to open heic images
11. changed inactive/background gtk+3 applications to have dimmed colors
12. updated kernel to 6.5.7
13. updated MATE to 1.27.3
14. updated GNOME to 45.0 (current only)
15. updated KDE to 5.27.8 (current only)
16. updated busybox to 1.36.1
17. updated cryptsetup to 2.6.1
18. updated many packages in both stable and current
19. some tweaks in many PorteuX scripts

Download of the ISOs available at: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases

[Rava]

Using the most recent Palemoon in Porteus 5.0.1 - 005-palemoon-32.4.1.linux-x86_64-gtk2.xzm

Once more, github not displays the icon for the checksums. Sometimes it displays it, sometimes not.
When visiting https://github.com/porteux/porteux it creates a reddish info bar at the top (just below

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porteux Merge branch '0.7' 9b3ee19 Oct 16, 2023 Git stats     346 commits

) stating

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 Failed to load latest commit information. 

I disabled Advanced Night Mode for the https://github.com/porteux/porteux/releases page and enabled all of github.com in eMatrix (that would block JavaScript by default) and this is what it looks for me:

No link for checksums.

That aside, can you please confirm these sha256sum checksums for me:

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918304be22b621314c2080dc301042f6d163c03d4bb46461c51a7d07e21cfea2  05-devel-current-20231014.xzm
f2f56510dc1df1af82719d8351fa2d87a8aee81adf6cbf3a3e7074893e430837  06-crippled_sources-6.5.7.xzm
05b40c1db78f7de7f04dc86321de5f55fd0ea0ac998002437437a64e5e92a3ca  multilib-current.zip
30b32ef950bc507e789e80b6f943916e520ac3222a6a2acd4dba281b2236ece0  porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-current-x86_64.iso

I guess I can refrain from downloading nvidia-driver-current.zip when I need the nvidia-340.* version of the nvidia-driver.
I guess² no one (but the affected users themselves) cares about the ones needing nvidia drivers for older hardware like mine.

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Why is /boot/porteux-installer-for-linux.run from the porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-current-x86_64.iso (and I presume that's the same for all other ISOs) stating this:

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SHA="0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000"

instead of a valid sha checksum?

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And trying once more installing porteux on a drive of mine. Installing thus I did several times in the past. Alas! a successful boot into any porteux never resulted from any of these installs.

@porteux
When I "mount" the porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-current-x86_64.iso via mloop I can just go into /mnt/loop/boot and execute ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run ?
And porteux-installer-for-linux.run will be able to find all it needs? And copy all needed files to my thumbdrive?

Or do I have to copy all of /mnt/loop/porteux and all of /mnt/loop/boot first to my VFAT USB thumbdrive and then execute the ./porteux-installer-for-linux.run from there? (This would be the method I have to use when doing a Porteus USB thumbdrive install) (I omit EFI/ since no UEFI hardware so far)

[porteux]

@Rava:

1- we don't use checksum. Try to simplify things: Just download what you need, relax and be happy
2- regarding the Nvidia driver, a few weeks ago I provided you a .run that was supposed to be compatible with PorteuX 0.5 kernel, but you forgot to test it. Here it goes a new .run for PorteuX 0.7 compatible with kernel 6.5.x (again: no checksum):

https://www.mediafire.com/file/mvzh666n ... el-6.5.run

[Rava]

1- we don't use checksum. Try to simplify things: Just download what you need, relax and be happy

How do you ensure that rare download errors never can occur?
And that no site you ever used for hosting files can be compromised?

but you forgot to test it.

I did not forget to test it, I was unable to boot successfully into Porteux.

Here it goes a new .run for PorteuX 0.7 compatible with kernel 6.5.x (again: no checksum):
https://www.mediafire.com/file/mvzh666n ... el-6.5.run

Thanks, downloading it right now. Then i set up a new VFAT USB thumbdrive and hopefully the extracted vanilla porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-current-x86_64.iso will boot.

[Rava]

Then i set up a new VFAT USB thumbdrive and hopefully the extracted vanilla porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-current-x86_64.iso will boot.

About the NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-6.5.run
When compiling the previous NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64 drivers for Porteus (e.g. for Porteus 5.0 x86_64), one had to set up Porteus so that certain GPU drivers were blacklisted, and one had to boot into the text mode, not start X.

How is that done with NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-340.108-patched-kernel-6.5.run and Porteux?

Can I just start PorteuX 0.7 normally, start XFCE and do all the compiling there?
No GPU drivers blacklisting? No booting into text-only Virtual Console mode?

[beny]

hi porteux when slatp-get is installed in porteux the directory is /var/cache/slapt-get but the operative directory is /var/slap-get ok now seem that work, can read the package_data archive so can run

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  guest@porteux:~$ sudo slapt-mod -M audacity
Reading Package Lists...Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  audacity 
0 upgraded, 0 reinstalled, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove, 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 3.0kB/7.5MB of archives.
Do you want to continue? [y/N] y

Done
Verifying package audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Installing package audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# audacity (sound editor)
#
# Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing
# sounds.  With Audacity one can record live audio, convert tapes
# and records into digital recordings, edit Ogg Vorbis, MP3, and
# WAV sound files, and much, much more.
#
# Homepage: https://www.audacityteam.org
#
Executing install script for audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Package audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.txz installed.
Verifying package vlc-3.0.18-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Installing package vlc-3.0.18-x86_64-1ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# vlc (VLC media player)
#
# VLC media player is a free and open source media player and multi-
# media framework written by the VideoLAN project. VLC is a portable
# multimedia player, encoder, and streamer supporting many audio and
# video codecs and file formats as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various
# streaming protocols. It is able to stream over networks and to
# transcode multimedia files and save them into various formats.
#
# homepage: http://www.videolan.org/vlc/
#
Executing install script for vlc-3.0.18-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Package vlc-3.0.18-x86_64-1ponce.txz installed.
Verifying package libdca-0.0.7-x86_64-3ponce.txz.
Installing package libdca-0.0.7-x86_64-3ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# libdca (free DTS Coherent Acoustics decoder)
#
# libdca is a free library for decoding DTS Coherent Acoustics streams.
# The code is written by Gildas Bazin and was based on the a52dec
# project.  libdca: The DTS Coherent Acoustics standard is used in a
# variety of applications, including DVD, DTS audio CD, and radio
# broadcasting.  It includes libdts.
# It is released under the terms of the GPL license.
#
# Homepage: http://www.videolan.org/developers/libdca.html
#
Executing install script for libdca-0.0.7-x86_64-3ponce.txz.
Package libdca-0.0.7-x86_64-3ponce.txz installed.
Verifying package jack-1.9.22-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Installing package jack-1.9.22-x86_64-1ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# jack (realtime low-latency sound server)
#
# JACK is a system for handling real-time, low latency audio and MIDI.
# It can connect a number of different applications to an audio device,
# as well as allowing them to share audio between themselves.
#
# Its clients can run in their own processes (ie. as normal apps), or
# within the JACK server (ie. as a "plugin"). JACK also has support
# for distributing audio processing across a network, both fast &
# reliable LANs as well as slower, less reliable WANs.
#
Executing install script for jack-1.9.22-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Package jack-1.9.22-x86_64-1ponce.txz installed.
Verifying package libmpeg2-0.5.1-x86_64-2ponce.txz.
Installing package libmpeg2-0.5.1-x86_64-2ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# libmpeg2 (mpeg-video decoding library)
#
# libmpeg2 is a free library for decoding mpeg-2 and mpeg-1 video
# streams. It is released under the terms of the GPL license.
#
# Homepage: http://libmpeg2.sourceforge.net
#
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Verifying package enca-1.19-x86_64-2ponce.txz.
Installing package enca-1.19-x86_64-2ponce.txz:
PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# enca (Extremely Naive Charset Analyser)
#
# Enca is an Extremely Native Charset Analyser. It detects  character
# set and encoding of text files and can also convert them to other
# encodings.
#
# Homepage: http://freshmeat.net/projects/enca/
#
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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# transcode (Audio/Video transcoding)
#
# transcode is a text-console utility for video stream processing.
# Decoding and encoding is done by loading modules that are
# responsible for feeding transcode with raw video/audio streams
# (import modules) and encoding the frames (export modules). It
# supports elementary video and audio frame transformations,
# including de-interlacing or fast resizing of video frames and
# loading of external filters.
#
# Homepage: http://www.transcoding.org/
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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# MPlayer (Linux movie player)
#
# MPlayer is a movie player for Linux. It plays most MPEG, VOB, AVI,
# Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, FLI, RM, NuppelVideo,
# YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim,
# and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx,
# DivX 3/4/5 and even WMV movies, too (without the avifile library).
# MPlayer supports 10 types of subtitles formats: VobSub,
# MicroDVD, SubRip, SubViewer, Sami, VPlayer, RT, SSA, AQTitle, MPsub.
#
# Homepage for MPlayer is http://www.mplayerhq.hu/
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PACKAGE DESCRIPTION:
# libilbc (iLBC codec from WebRTC)
#
# iLBC codec from the WebRTC project. It provides a base for
# distribution packages and can be used as drop-in replacement for the
# non-free code from RFC 3591.
#
# Homepage: https://github.com/dekkers/libilbc
#
Executing install script for libilbc-3.0.4-x86_64-1ponce.txz.
Package libilbc-3.0.4-x86_64-1ponce.txz installed.
Parallel mksquashfs: Using 6 processors
Creating 4.0 filesystem on /tmp/audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.xzm, block size 262144.
[=============================================================|] 1553/1553 100%

Exportable Squashfs 4.0 filesystem, xz compressed, data block size 262144
	compressed data, compressed metadata, compressed fragments,
	compressed xattrs, compressed ids
	duplicates are removed
Filesystem size 16164.65 Kbytes (15.79 Mbytes)
	26.88% of uncompressed filesystem size (60137.49 Kbytes)
Inode table size 12670 bytes (12.37 Kbytes)
	24.05% of uncompressed inode table size (52686 bytes)
Directory table size 14000 bytes (13.67 Kbytes)
	33.89% of uncompressed directory table size (41309 bytes)
Xattr table size 40 bytes (0.04 Kbytes)
	100.00% of uncompressed xattr table size (40 bytes)
Number of duplicate files found 7
Number of inodes 1586
Number of files 1428
Number of fragments 115
Number of symbolic links 34
Number of device nodes 0
Number of fifo nodes 0
Number of socket nodes 0
Number of directories 124
Number of hard-links 0
Number of ids (unique uids + gids) 2
Number of uids 1
	root (0)
Number of gids 2
	root (0)
	audio (17)
chown: warning: '.' should be ':': ‘guest.’

====> '/tmp/audacity-3.3.3-x86_64-1ponce.xzm' was created successfully.

guest@porteux:~$ 

                                                                              

[porteux]

@Rava:

0- download this and keep it in any folder that you can access from text mode boot but don't reboot yet
1- copy this to your /porteux/base folder: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/raw/ ... cklist.xzm
2- download devel and crippled modules from the App Store (the application inside PorteuX) and put them in /porteux/base
3- reboot into text mode fresh
4- install the Nvidia driver as root (choose yes to everything that is being asked) but don't reboot yet
5- call this as guest (not root) to run the desktop environment: startx
6- make sure the driver is working properly -- try to open Settings -> Nvidia X Server Settings

If it's working, that's a good sign. Now we need to make a module out of it:

1- logout and execute the script from step 0 above
2- your module should be automatically copied to /porteux/modules
3- call as root: reboot
4- boot into graphics (normal) mode
5- make sure the driver is working properly -- try to open Settings -> Nvidia X Server Settings

There's a chance the driver won't work because this script is made for 5xx version. I can't guarantee much, but we're always learning, aren't we?

@beny, gonna take a look at this later. Thanks!

[Rava]

0- download this and keep it in any folder that you can access from text mode boot but don't reboot yet
1- copy this to your /porteux/base folder: https://github.com/porteux/porteux/raw/ ... cklist.xzm

Done and done (via Porteus 5.0.1)

2- download devel and crippled modules from the App Store (the application inside PorteuX) and put them in /porteux/base

Not done like so, I downloaded both via Porteus 5.0.1 and gitub directly.

3- reboot into text mode fresh

Will do that soon; first step is creating a vanilla boot of PorteuX 0.7 without any changes to see if that boots and works as intended, then move forward step by step in creating the PorteuX 0.7 NV driver V340.108 - like creating a 2nd boot entry via porteux.cfg that:

1 ) boots into mode 3 (text mode (virtual consoles)).
2 ) incorporates the 009-blacklist.xzm and 05-devel-current-20231014.xzm and 06-crippled_sources-6.5.7.xzm

5- call this as guest (not root) to run the desktop environment: startx
6- make sure the driver is working properly -- try to open Settings -> Nvidia X Server Settings

I did never start x from the text mode when compiling the NV drivers. AFAIK the NV driver needs to be set up at boot time. Is that no longer the case with the newer patched driver .run's?

donald and I, when we created NV drivers for Porteus 4.x or 5.x did:

booted into text mode (including blacklist, devel and crippled_sources), logged in as root, compiled the driver, created a module out of the compiled driver, incorporated that driver into the base/ folder and rebooted without the blacklisting, and then in startx realized via Settings -> Nvidia X Server Settings if all works as intended.

And when the driver compilation told us it succeeded then the driver did work when incorporated like described above; when the compilation told us it not succeeded then the resulting NV kernel drivers would fail 100%.

[Rapha_]

Hello,

In last PorteuX * , the module selection tool doesn't let you find an optional module folder , with the + sign

Especially useful for those who boot a PorteuX or Porteus with an ISO ...

Is there a project to add a cheatcode like 'extramod=' for optional modules ?


* porteux-v0.7-xfce-4.12-stable

[Rava]

Porteux seems to work:

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root@porteux:~# cat  /etc/porteux/*
001-core.xzm:20231014
002-xorg.xzm:20231014
002-xtra.xzm:20231014
003-xfce-4.12.xzm:20231014
initrd.zst:20230927

but I activated the "3" option in porteux.cfg

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## This tells porteux to boot into text mode
3

and after boot the screen resolution switched and virtual terminal login now looks like so:

I presume that this is not intentional?


About the porteux App Store / browser / palemoon

I can click on the two options: but there is only Channel - stable and only language: en-US

What can I do to get more supported languages?

This is what browser-update in Port 5.01 offers me when started as update-browser -d -p:

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Choose a locale from the list.

1) bg	    5) en-GB   9) es-MX	 13) ko	    17) ru     21) tr
2) cs	    6) en-US  10) fr	 14) pl	    18) sk     22) uk
3) de	    7) es-AR  11) hu	 15) pt-BR  19) sv-SE  23) vi
4) el	    8) es-ES  12) it	 16) pt-PT  20) tl     24) zh-CN

───────────────────────────────────────────────────────

And about the NVidia compile.
I booted a 2nd setup with the 3 needed modules (blacklist, crippled sources, devel) but the NVidia.run gives this error:

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         NVIDIA Accelerated Graphics Driver for Linux-x86_64 (340.108)


  The CC version check failed:

  You appear to be compiling the NVIDIA kernel module with a different
  compiler than the one that was used to compile the running kernel.  The
  Linux 2.6 kernel module loader rejects kernel modules built with a version
  of gcc that does not exactly match that of the compiler used to build the
  running kernel.  The compiler used to compile the kernel was gcc 11.2; the
  current compiler is gcc 13.2.

  If you know what you are doing you can either ignore the CC version check
  and continue installation, or abort installation, set the CC environment
  variable to the name of the compiler used to compile your kernel, and
  restart installation.

                Ignore CC version check     Abort installation





  NVIDIA Software Installer for Unix/Linux                      www.nvidia.com

Here also gcc --version and uname -a; cat /etc/porteux/* should be the same for the above listed modules. I do not know if blacklist, crippled sources or devel would add an entry into /etc/porteux/

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root@porteux:/5.0# gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 13.2.0
Copyright (C) 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

root@porteux:/# uname -a
Linux porteux.example.net 6.5.7-porteux #1 SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Oct 13 20:01:
47 CEST 2023 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7 CPU       Q 720  @ 1.60GHz GenuineIntel
 GNU/Linux

Where do I get the correct devel module with gcc 11.2 (the version that fits the gcc version the kernel was compiled with)?

And I aborted the attempt creating the NV driver, because I know from past experiences that the warning is genuine, a compiled NV kernel driver would not work.

[beny]

You have mixed the devel current with devel standard porteus

[porteux]

@Rava

1- this glitch is probably due to your old card. In any case, you can try to use PorteuX stable instead of current.
2- palemoon language pack is very messy. If you pay attention, it relies on third-party extensions and the version of palemoon not always matches the language packs available, meaning there's no simple way to script that. At the moment, Porteus (not PorteuX) script isn't setting the language because latest palemoon version is 32.4.1 but the language packs extensions are stuck in 32.4.0. In any case, once you open palemoon, you can go here and download the language pack you want: https://addons.palemoon.org/language-packs/
3- there's no problem building with different versions of GCC -- we have been doing that all the time. Again, if you're feeling uncomfortable, try PorteuX stable instead of current.

[porteux]

In last PorteuX * , the module selection tool doesn't let you find an optional module folder , with the + sign

Especially useful for those who boot a PorteuX or Porteus with an ISO ...

Wouldn't be easier to just browse the folder with the modules and activating the ones you want?

Is there a project to add a cheatcode like 'extramod=' for optional modules ?

Yes, extramod is supported. For more information about all the cheatcodes available, take a look at /boot/docs/cheatcodes.txt

[porteux]

@Rava, palemoon in the app store has now support to languages -- no need to update anything manually; just open the app store.

[Rava]

@Rava, palemoon in the app store has now support to languages -- no need to update anything manually; just open the app store.

Great. Thanks.

Has it also support for changing the dictionaries, to be stored not in each user's home directory, but e.g. all in /opt/palemoon/ ?