dolphin_oracle's respins (updated Jan 23, 2024)

[dolphin_oracle]

I've made up several respins of the official isos.

the first is a 64 bit "bare" edition, with a lot of apps and extra themes/icons stripped out.

the second is a 32 bit iso with the antiX 4.9 kernel, for folks that need that kernel for one reason or another. otherwise its identical to the standard 32bit Xfce iso.

***edit*** just added a third repsin, a "bare" edition that is systemd only. There are a few things on the live system that won't work on this respin - 1. disabling services 2. semi-automatic persistence file saving (manual and automatic work).

***edit*** added a KDE respin with a 5.18 kernel and ahs linux-firmware package. otherwise identical to the Official KDE release.

***edit*** added a Xfce AHS respin with nvidia 5.10 drivers installed. also uses 5.18 kernel and all latest updates. since nouveau is blacklisted, machines that can't run the latest nvidia drivers should avoid this one. there really isn't any other purpose for this spin other than for later nvidia users that can't use nouvaeu. Otherwise identical to the 21.1 AHS (xfce) release.
tested on an optimus laptop. I don't have a desktop nvidia machine or a dedicated nvidia machine to test with.

***edit*** updated all spins with latest packages.


the spins are made with the snapshot tools from remastered live-usbs and are not official releases.

the spins will identify themselves as such in the quick-system-info.

you can find my snapshot respins here:

MX-21 respins

***edit***

MX 23.2 systemd-only respin is up. Its a full version of MX-23.2 64 bit, with sysVinit removed.

MX 23.2 sysVinit-only resipin is up, Full version of MX-23.2 64 bit, with systemd removed. elogind, libelogind, and libpam-elogind are utilized to fill those session management requirements.

MX-23 respins

[SwampRabbit]

nice!

[Eadwine Rose]

Way cool!

[siamhie]

Very cool. Gonna try the bare_x64 in a VM.


OK, that took only 5-6 minutes to install into a VM. Boot time is the same as my MX-21 Fluxbox on hardware. Great job.

[fehlix]

the second is a 32 bit iso with the antiX 4.9 kernel, for folks that need that kernel for one reason or another. otherwise its identical to the standard 32bit Xfce iso.

On the 32bit iso boot it gives a "SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression.
Hmm, not sure I had the impression mx-snapshot would capture this and would not allow creating zstd-compressed squashfs for antix 4.9 kernel, which does not support squashfs_zstd compression.
+++EDIT+++
for the record...
Check:

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unsquashfs -stat /mnt/iso/iso1/antiX/linuxfs| grep -i compression
Compression zstd

and

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grep ^CONFIG_SQUASHFS_ /mnt/iso/sq1/boot/config-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae 
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FILE_CACHE=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_DECOMP_MULTI_PERCPU=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XATTR=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_ZLIB=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZ4=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_LZO=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_XZ=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_4K_DEVBLK_SIZE=y
CONFIG_SQUASHFS_FRAGMENT_CACHE_SIZE=3

[dolphin_oracle]

the second is a 32 bit iso with the antiX 4.9 kernel, for folks that need that kernel for one reason or another. otherwise its identical to the standard 32bit Xfce iso.

On the 32bit iso boot it gives a "SQUASHFS error: Filesystem uses "unknown" compression.
Hmm, not sure I had the impression mx-snapshot would capture this and would not allow creating zstd-compressed squashfs for antix 4.9 kernel, which does not support squashfs_zstd compression.

hmph...apparently not. I'll redo that one.

[Adrian]

I messed up the check? https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot ... pp#L53-L58
Do you have headers installed? I set it up so the check doesn't fail if there is no /boot/config-kernelversion

[dolphin_oracle]

I messed up the check? https://github.com/MX-Linux/mx-snapshot ... cpp#L53-58
Do you have headers installed? I set it up so the check doesn't fail if there is no /boot/config-kernelversion

I'm pretty sure the headers are installed. I'll give it a check when I get home.

[dolphin_oracle]

@fehlix i uploaded new 4.9 iso, this time used gzip.

@Adrian there is a config file uner /boot called config-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae and a matching vmlinuz-4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae.

uname -r reports as 4.9.0-294-antix.1-686-smp-pae

[seaken64]

@dolphin_oracle , thank you. Especially for the 32-bit version. I think the 64-bit "bare" version would be good to try experimenting with LXDE/LXQT? That was brought up in another thread and I'd like to start playing with that idea.

Seaken64