Slackel 6.0.7 "Live Openbox"

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Slackel 6.0.7 "Live Openbox"

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Slackel 6.0.7 Live Openbox has been released. Slackel is based on Slackware and Salix.

The 64-bit iso images support booting on UEFI systems.
The 32-bit iso images support both i686 PAE SMP and i486, non-PAE capable systems.
Iso images are isohybrid.

Includes the Linux kernel 4.4.20 and latest updates from Slackware's 'Current' tree.
The 64-bit iso supports booting on UEFI systems.
The 32-bit flavor support both i686 PAE SMP and i486, non-PAE capable systems.

Full multimedia support without having to install multimedia codecs while on live environment. Of course it is suggested to install multimedia codecs to your system after installation.

Slackel 6.0.7 Openbox includes the Midori 0.5.11 web browser, Claws-Mail 3.13.2, Smplayer 16.9.0, Transmission 2.92, PCManFm 1.2.1, Pidgin 2.10.12, Gftp 2.0.19, Wicd, Openjre 8u91_b14.
Abiword 3.0.1 office application and Gnumeric-1.12.9 are included. Smplayer is the default movie player, Exaile 3.4.5 is the application to use for managing your music collection, Asunder 2.3 Cd ripper, isomaster 1.3.13, Bracero 3.12.0 for writing CD/DVD's and more.
On slackel repositories can be found Libreoffice 5.1.4 Openjdk, kplayer 0.7.2, kaffeine 1.3.1, k3b-2.0.3, vlc 2.2.4, gnome-mplayer 1.0.8 , radiotray-0.7.3, mixxx-1.11.0, gmpc 11.8.16, mpd 0.19.18, icecast 2.3.2, ices-mp3 0.4, ices-ogg, murmur 1.2.15, mumble 1.2.15, audacity-2.1.0, audacious-3.7.2, kdenlive-0.9.10, wxcam-1.1, games as (supertux4, supertux2, frozen bubble, extreme tux racer) educational software as gcompris, tuxtype, tuxpaint and many more. All these can be easily installed using gslapt.

In the graphics section Viewnior 1.6, gimp 2.8.18, mtpaint 3.40 and Scrot the snapshot utility.
On slackel repositories there is inkscape-0.91, shotwell-0.22, mozilla-firefox-45.3.0esr and mozilla-firefox-noesr-48.0.2, mozilla-thunderbird-45.3.0, google-chrome 53.0.2785.101, skype-nomultilib-4.3.0.37 which run in 64bit without the need of installing multilib, skype-4.3.0.37 for 32 bit and many more.

The Slackel Live Installer (SLI) supports installation on different filesystems (btrfs, ext2, ext3, ext4, jfs, reiserfs, xfs). You can use a different partition for /home. You can find and add Windows partitions in grub.cfg. Note that if you use eLilo as your bootloader, you will not be able to boot Windows partitions.

Installation on EFI GPT partitions is also supported for 64bit iso. In this case you have to create a gpt partition table with gparted.
The following partitions should be created:
- the first partition has to be at least 300MB and use the FAT32 filesystem
- the second partition has to be a Linux partition of any type. NOTE: if you choose grub then the partition cannot be in xfs filesystem because system will not boot after installation, as grub does not support xfs properly. If you want to use xfs as your filesystem you must also use the eLilo boot loader.
- you can optionally add a third partition for /home
- and of course a swap partition
- Important! Before proceeding with the installation you must flag the first FAT32 partition as bootable. You can also do this using GParted.

When booting with 64bit iso efi partition is detected and if it is exist it is mounted to /boot/efi. So user can use the guefi graphical tool.

If you want to transfer the iso to a USB stick, make sure you read the respective instructions in this file:
http://www.slackel.gr/isos/slackel-live ... ON_USB.TXT

You can also use the dd command to write the iso to a USB stick, but some features like persistence, will not be available.

If you are booting with persistence, the very first time without creating a persistent file when transferring the iso to USB stick, the live system will boot will take a while. This is because the persistence file is created at that point and that is somehow a lengthy process. However, the system will boot much faster at every consecutive boot.

So when transferring the iso to USB stick also create the persistent file.
I suggest users to not boot with persistence for the first time if not have create a persistent file.
It is better to use the script to create a persistent file. And in next boot to use persistence.

(The root password for the live CD is “live”. Standard user login is “one” with password: "one")
For installation and for all work required administration privileges the super user "one" with password "one" is used.


For detecting printers and scanners. Add user one to lp group. Log out and log in again.

Minimum system requirements:
* Pentium 2 or equivalent
* 256 MB (RAM)
* 1.5 GB HDD

You can download Slackel 6.0.7 Live Openbox iso images from the following links, using the Sourceforge servers.

Slackel 6.0.7 "Live Openbox" (32-bit)
(size: 936 MB,md5: 819c8ab059620f2152975290ad2b9e24)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slacke ... o/download
pkglist

Slackel64 6.0.7 "Live Openbox" (64-bit)
(size: 918 MB,md5: d58191570f3012b1c2bc6ef8fba7772d)
Sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/slacke ... o/download
pkglist

Have fun.
Dimitris Tzemos



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Re: Slackel 6.0.7 "Live Openbox"

Post by ikke »

Just to say thank you for providing this 6.0.7 "Openbox Live". Nice piece of work. Congratulations!

Have done a frugal install and found everything works as expected.

If any problem occurs, will come back to you.

Once again : thank you.
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Re: Slackel 6.0.7 "Live Openbox"

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For detecting printers and scanners. Add user one to lp group. Log out and log in again.
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