10-05-2022, 07:04 AM
Just unpack somewhere in your user area and run "setup_lnx.sh", no need even to turn on the modem while using "Liveslack DAW". This is a live version of Slackware "-current" which focuses a lot on music software, a lot like Ubuntu Studio but without the likes of Blender and Libreoffice. Like that other distro it comes only with KDE Plasma desktop environment so a lot of KDE apps like Elisa (music player, worthless since it has VLC Media Player as dependency), Falkon (web browser), Kate/KWrite (text editor), KDEnlive (video editor), KWave (audio editor) and Okular (PDF viewer). It comes with almost no games, though, two variations of chess it seems. (I suck at chess, cannot even beat "beginning" computer.) It includes Firefox and GIMP. It also has XMMS which is a few decades old LOL but could play music tracker modules.
Getting a well-behaved setup with this version of Slackware live, with persistence is a PITA, must have the ISO as well as two disks especially if you're like I am insisting on external USB gear. Must "burn" the ISO to one USB drive, in order to run a script to "install" to the other disk. It could probably be installed to HDD/SDD, however it's not recommended since it's "-current" (unstable) and not the Slackware v15 "install DVD" that came out seven months ago.
I said the downloaded ISO is a PITA because it failed to boot via EFI for me, but the live "install" boots successfully. It's not possible to enable persistence during a session with the downloaded ISO unless there's a way I don't know of to unpack the ISO, add a directory, somehow make the whole thing writable and then bundle it into an ISO again. I know it's possible with File Roller/Engrampa available for Ubuntu, also a couple of free programs and payware for Windows. Also the "persistence" becomes the rest of the disk that it doesn't use which won't be readable by Windows but could add other Linux applications that are like QB64PE instead of "packaged".
Long live the Slack!
Getting a well-behaved setup with this version of Slackware live, with persistence is a PITA, must have the ISO as well as two disks especially if you're like I am insisting on external USB gear. Must "burn" the ISO to one USB drive, in order to run a script to "install" to the other disk. It could probably be installed to HDD/SDD, however it's not recommended since it's "-current" (unstable) and not the Slackware v15 "install DVD" that came out seven months ago.
I said the downloaded ISO is a PITA because it failed to boot via EFI for me, but the live "install" boots successfully. It's not possible to enable persistence during a session with the downloaded ISO unless there's a way I don't know of to unpack the ISO, add a directory, somehow make the whole thing writable and then bundle it into an ISO again. I know it's possible with File Roller/Engrampa available for Ubuntu, also a couple of free programs and payware for Windows. Also the "persistence" becomes the rest of the disk that it doesn't use which won't be readable by Windows but could add other Linux applications that are like QB64PE instead of "packaged".
Long live the Slack!