Want to do a little bit more than booting Wolvix with Live Wolvix? E.g., have a menu that lists all bootable patitions from the HDs for you to choose and boot, including those patitions from 2nd or 3rd HD? or boot into CDROM on old PCs that don't even support booting CDROMs?
With a 108 KB extra, ftp://ftp.slackware.no/linux/slackware/slackware-11.0/rootdisks/sbootmgr.dsk you can do all this.
Check out Smart Boot Manager http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot05-SmartBootManager/ar01s02.html
and its features http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/nix/disk/boot/boot05-SmartBootManager/index.html#_Features
documented on: 2007-06-21, xpt
I really hope that syslinux 3.51 is used in the next Wolvix release. Quoting from http://www.slax.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17988
Now, syslinux 3.51 is out, and it supports two new directives, one is to include another config file in syslinux.cfg (MENU INCLUDE), the other is to start the menu from scratch with another config file (CONFIG).
So what I suggest is to put the slax kernel and initrd image and it's syslinux config file in the /slax/ directory, so that /boot only contains syslinux files. And by default /boot/syslinux/syslinux.cfg will only contain a MENU INCLUDE /slax/syslinux.cfg .. but people could more easily customize this.
The benefits is make it easy for people to do put more small bootable images/distros on the same disk. E.g., if I want to add powerful versatile booting manager to Wolvix (http://wolvix.org/node/606) myself, it'd be a trivial task.
documented on: 2007-06-22, xpt
Please consider adding the following handy tools to the base:
ncftp
It's a user-friendly and well-featured FTP client. Extremely useful for scripting, even for sites that needs passwords.
+ NcFTP is a user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, and offers additional features that are not found in the standard interface for ftp.
rdiff
this might be hard, since I did not find it in slackware current.
It will:
*only backs up what's changed like rsync does (so each backup doesn't take long). *keeps a history of changes (which means that you can restore a file you deleted three weeks ago!) *does secure backups over a network (using ssh). *backups up partitions while they are mounted (so it's easy to automate a daily backup … no unmounting necessary). *can restore everything if your hard drive goes belly-up and you have to buy a new one. *scales to backup large networks (linux is fine, windows is more difficult) and is used by businesses. *is a command-line-driven app, so it's great for those who like to do things like automate backups in a powerful way (ie a bash script which is called by cron). *remembers and deals with file ownerships and permissions, and also deals with symbolic links (and all that sort of stuff) so when you restore, you get things exactly as they were.
please consider adding the xosview to the core x11 module.
It depends purely on X libs, and is only 146k in size. However it gives visual and accurate system info that includes everything you'd like to know.
I'm having problem compiling the pkg myself, thus I'm making the request.
What do you think my further requests? I.e.,
adding ncftp/rdiff
adding xosview
I've added ncftp to 003_base_app, I don't have any room left for other things. The other two apps might end up as packages in the repository.
documented on: 2007-06-20, wolven
I use privoxy all the time to block adds/popups, etc. My web page loads 3 or 4 times faster than normal case, and is much cleaner.
Does anyone know/use such tool?
Would you like to have it install in Wolvix by default?
I think its definitely too big to include by default. The deb file for it is 1253.9 KBs. Even if it was 500 KBs, Cub and Hunter have hardly any room left. Yesterday Wolven said that Hunter had only 1MB left, and Cub has only 1 or 2 MBs left as well (if I remember right).
I've never used it myself, I just use my hosts file to block things.
documented on: 2007-06-21, MasterGoodheart