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Slackware portin category Operating Systems
proposed by domen on 18th November 2006 (accepted on 6th December 2006)
Project Summary
I think a port of Slackware distribution would make this board more likable to a bunch of knowledgeble users.I plan to port (and in the process, if needed, send patches to upstream developers) most of the distribution, with installer, of course. KDE and other CPU/memory intensive software might be excluded.
Project Blog Entries
And finally, the moment you've all been waiting for... *drumroll*... Slefika 11.0!
Instructions and files are accesible on: http://coderock.org/slefika/
It seems to work quite nice. Even X with xfce and seamonkey.
note1: Yes, I know Slackware 12.0 is out for some time now, and I do plan a new release.
note2: Just noticed this: if you're doing serial console install you won't be able to log in after boot because ttyPSC0 is not in /etc/securetty (so boot with init=/bin/sh; mount -o remount,rw /; and fix it).
Unfortunately this is taking me a bit long.
I've decided not to recompile everything, but use Slackintosh (hey, a Slackware-powerpc port!) packages if possible.
Installer will be just one file (Linux kernel with embedded initramfs), which should be convenient for booting from just about anything.
At the moment I have some hacked up tukaani (now dead :-( slackware fork) installer with powerpc binaries. I'll try to get some HD and make it work.
Yay! After trouble with "local FedEx" received Efika. Unfortunately after holidays.
Some decisions: use tukbuild because it's much nicer to read/write; and tukaani's (slackware fork) pkgtools as they support some nice things like installing from network.
In short, I guess I could split my project into:
- building cross toolchain
- building basic root filesystem with development tools
- building the whole distro on Efika
First part is pretty much over, so I'm doing the second one at the moment.