[dundee] Re: slax

[Digit (SG)]

oh yeah, now that u mention it, i remember some developer talk a while back
saying something along the lines that LZMA was slower compressing, but
faster uncompressing....  so, if thats true, and assuming u are using the
new slax, it should at least be faster booting than slax before version 6.



2008/6/30 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com>:

> That's actually a good point. Slax uses SquashFS+LZMA for it's "modules"...
> however I still don't see how that necessarily slows udevtrigger down. I
> have noticed that the "copy2ram" option has made it significantly quicker.
> I'll just keep on fiddling :D So far I have it booting from grub (rather
> than syslinux or lilo) and almost have it autologging fluxbox on init 4.
> With regards to checking the MD5Sum, I haven't, but it's also not an iso,
> and the tarball unrolled without errors.
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Digit (SG) <digit.siljrath at googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> i'll bet the compression has a bit part to play in this slowness.
>>
>> 2008/6/30 John¹ <seago.john at googlemail.com>:
>>
>> On Monday 30 June 2008 Nistur <nistur at googlemail.com> wrote:
>>> > Has anyone had any experience with Slax? Or knows what might be causing
>>> > this?
>>>
>>> I'll deal with the second question first, no I'm afraid that I don't know
>>> what
>>> might be the cause.
>>>
>>> As to the first part of your question I have had some small experience
>>> with
>>> Slax, ( I have been a Slackware user since Windows 95 crashed on me just
>>> once
>>> too often, Slackware 7 I seem to recall), it always seems to take a long
>>> time
>>> to boot to the point where one can log in and use it. (A test shows at
>>> least
>>> two and a half minutes on my machine (Intel Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz).
>>> When I
>>> bought my daughter a Laptop without an OS recently, I used Slax to see if
>>> the
>>> hardware all worked with GNU/Linux, and it seemed to take forever on
>>> that, at
>>> least 5 to six minutes. Have you tried any other 'live' Distro's, are
>>> they any
>>> quicker? It could be that Slax is just slow in loading, if you are
>>> prepared to
>>> run comparative tests it may be useful to run some of the smaller live CD
>>> versions in the 200 Mb range for comparison.
>>>
>>> Does it really matter if it works? Sorry not to be of anymore help.
>>>
>>>
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not Narn, or Human, or Centauri, or Gaim or Minbari. It speaks in the
language of hope; It speaks in the language of trust; It speaks in the
language of strength, and the language of compassion. It is the language of
the heart and the language of the soul. But always, it is the same voice. It
is the voice of our ancestors, speaking through us, And the voice of our
inheritors, waiting to be born. It is the small, still voice that says: We
are one. No matter the blood; skin; world; star; We are one. No matter the
pain; darkness; loss; fear; We are one. Here, gathered together in common
cause. we agree to recognise this singular truth, and this singular rule:
That we must be kind to one another, because each voice enriches us and
ennobles us, and each voice lost diminishes us. We are the voice of the
Universe, the soul of creation, the fire that will light the way to a better
future. We are one.
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