Wishlist for porteus 3.1

New features which should be implemented in Porteus; suggestions are welcome. All questions or problems with testing releases (alpha, beta, or rc) should go in their relevant thread here, rather than the Bug Reports section.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#76 by fanthom » 09 Nov 2014, 20:30

no worries guys - 32bit arch is not going to be dropped anytime soon. that would be a shoot in our own feet as many people recommend porteus for older PCs. i was just wondering the reaction of the community. was expecting plenty of emotional comments but got quite calm and constructive feedback.

thanks a lot for that.

@Kriss
I'd like to suggest to rename all x86_64 core modules so instead of, for example, two 05-devel modules we'll have "05-devel.xzm" and "05-devel64.xzm" Same for "vmlinuz" and "initrd.xz".
that would require:
- remembering of adding '64' bit to relevant component (tweaking of dev scripts?)
- updating to the bootloader configs/wizard/iso creation script
- doc updates (biggest task)
i have asked for this brokenman as we agreed that benefit is quite low so it's up to the users to keep archs separately.
sorry about that.

You're looking for a ways to reduce your workload (sorry, didn't find a better word)?
Ahau left the project so Jay and me have to do approx 33% more work than before so the answer is yes - i'm trying to reduce workload wherever i can (or just 'do things smarter' like brokenman said). that's why i did not bother with proprietary drivers for rc1/rc2, we never provide language files before userland is frozen, LXDE->RazorQT merger comes handy (one DE less to maintain), etc...
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#77 by donald » 09 Nov 2014, 22:31

@ fanthom
--> 32bit arch is not going to be dropped anytime soon <--
Many thanks for this statement.

the workload:
I would get along well with a longer release cycle of porteus.
A new slackware version = a new porteus release

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#78 by dstarke » 10 Nov 2014, 14:49

The most obvious solution is a combined 32/64 bit kernel (selectable at boot) with 32bit software. The main advantage of the 64bit kernel is that it allows addressing a larger memory space and so many more programs will run simultaneously. While the kernel runs somewhat faster at 64 bit, PROGRAMS generally do not and some actually run slower. The only programs which will benefit from being compiled for 64bit are those which must keep large (huge, gBs in fact) amounts of data in memory.

It seems to me that having the universality of both 32bit and 64bit kernels available (making Porteus a truly portable OS) while using the same installed program base (to save replication and to ease upgrading of programs) overrides any (if any) small gains in speed by running 64bit compiled programs.

So my suggestion is to provide a truly universal disk which will run on any machine and which utilizes all the memory on advanced machines. This has been done in KNOPPIX very sucessfully.

TIA for your consideration.

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#79 by fanthom » 10 Nov 2014, 21:38

A new slackware version = a new porteus release
slockware releases rarely, sometimes it's a year and sometimes 18 months.
i hope we will be able to preserve 2 releases per year, if not then 2 releases per one Slackware.
will see.

The most obvious solution is a combined 32/64 bit kernel (selectable at boot) with 32bit software.
and then we can forget about proprietary drivers for 64bit PCs. if you go through the last few threads on the forum you'll see that many people still use them.
i think we will stick to current scheme - maintaining 2 archs is not that hard as all our scripts/tools are 'noarch' at the moment.

thanks guys for your input.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#80 by Kriss » 16 Nov 2014, 15:37

fanthom wrote:no worries guys - 32bit arch is not going to be dropped anytime soon. that would be a shoot in our own feet as many people recommend porteus for older PCs. i was just wondering the reaction of the community. was expecting plenty of emotional comments but got quite calm and constructive feedback.

thanks a lot for that.

@Kriss
I'd like to suggest to rename all x86_64 core modules so instead of, for example, two 05-devel modules we'll have "05-devel.xzm" and "05-devel64.xzm" Same for "vmlinuz" and "initrd.xz".
that would require:
- remembering of adding '64' bit to relevant component (tweaking of dev scripts?)
- updating to the bootloader configs/wizard/iso creation script
- doc updates (biggest task)
i have asked for this brokenman as we agreed that benefit is quite low so it's up to the users to keep archs separately.
sorry about that.

You're looking for a ways to reduce your workload (sorry, didn't find a better word)?
Ahau left the project so Jay and me have to do approx 33% more work than before so the answer is yes - i'm trying to reduce workload wherever i can (or just 'do things smarter' like brokenman said). that's why i did not bother with proprietary drivers for rc1/rc2, we never provide language files before userland is frozen, LXDE->RazorQT merger comes handy (one DE less to maintain), etc...
Well, sorry for asking. It seemed like a useful idea.
Suggestions/corrections/additions are always welcome.

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#81 by fanthom » 16 Nov 2014, 16:33

@Kriss
there is no need to feel sorry - this is a 'wishes' thread :)
users role is to post ideas and our role is to filter ones which:
a) are useful
b) can be implemented
d) does not require tremendous effort on our side

this is how it works.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#83 by Blaze » 06 Dec 2014, 10:02

Do you plan to add to USM these packages repositories (x86_64)?
Slackware packages (the base system packages and libs) :
http://slackware.mirrors.tds.net/pub/sl ... 64-current
http://mirrors.easynews.com/linux/slack ... 64-current
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware64-14.1/

Zenwalk specific packages (the Zenwalk Desktop, Zenwalk system tools, studio tools) :
http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/current/zenwalk
http://distro.ibiblio.org/zenwalk/x86_6 ... t/zenwalk/
http://zen-repo.meticul.eu/x86_64/current/zenwalk/

Alien Bob's packages (many extra apps, JRE, JDK, Libreoffice dictionaries, etc...) :
http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/sb ... nt/x86_64/
http://taper.alienbase.nl/mirrors/peopl ... nt/x86_64/
http://www.slackware.com/~alien/sbrepos/current/x86_64/
http://mirrors.nix.org.ua/linux/slackwa ... nt/x86_64/

Studioware packages (alternative studio audio and video tools) :
http://www.studioware.org/files/package ... re64-14.1/
Probably some are present in USM.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#84 by brokenman » 06 Dec 2014, 11:09

Slackware and alien are already present.

I see no reason to add zenwalk.

Studio will not be added. To many broken dependencies (already tested it).
I will eventually add slackware-current but this won't be for some time. It will require more maintenance time from me which I do not have at present.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#85 by StefanO » 06 Dec 2014, 22:24

My wishes:
ddrescue in all versions,
continue the PXE,
an other method for donations than paypal ...
Thanks for the incredible porteus.

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#86 by fanthom » 06 Dec 2014, 22:48

"My wishes: ddrescue in all versions"
brokenman put some effort into the 'thin client' area so Porteus Rescue edition rather wont materialize soon despite that it was so promising project:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R804iRA_dfw

perhaps i could maintain all cli rescue utilities in the core of the desktop edition: ddrescue, testdisk, extundelete (saved my ass big time last week), anything else? or maybe a 'rescue shell' itself could be added to it?
it would not add a much size to the ISO (few MB) and could be certainly a nice addition.
any comments?

"continue the PXE"
will be there

"other method for donations than paypal"
like for example?

thanks
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#87 by Ed_P » 06 Dec 2014, 23:12

fanthom wrote:perhaps i could maintain all cli rescue utilities in the core of the desktop edition: ddrescue, testdisk, extundelete (saved my ass big time last week), anything else? or maybe a 'rescue shell' itself could be added to it?
I like both those ideas.
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#88 by StefanO » 06 Dec 2014, 23:25

any comments?
Yes (my opinion):
ddrescue is one of the most important cli tool for the next future. Its a perfect supplement to dd and badblocks and the best way to build secure backups.

"continue the PXE"
will be there
Great.

like for example?
wire transfer or credit card (without paypal!)
Thanks for the incredible porteus.

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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#89 by fanthom » 07 Dec 2014, 20:40

you dont need a PayPal account to transfer money, you could do it with your credit card:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kYPAkWf6Ik

or maybe you meant that you dont want any of your details to be processed by PayPal at all?
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Re: Wishlist for porteus 3.1

Post#90 by Blaze » 08 Dec 2014, 17:56

fanthom wrote:"other method for donations than paypal"
like for example?
Webmoney or QIWI
1st is better
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