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[8Geee]

eons2018A.iso with BASH fixed for printing (yaaaay) and WPA_supplicant. EONS has an enUS version of FreeOfffice 6.97 with a separate user's manuals. Mp3 and mp4 conversions and editing are available. The current iso size is 150.1Mb, using about 445Mb in RAM.

Only the i915/945 video drivers are included in this spin, and the distro is 32-bit nonPAE. The kernel supplied is 3.4.82 (no longer suported).

MINI-EEE has its own D/L for the BASH and WPA_supplicant patches, and will be deprecated..

Here is the link to eons-2018A Please select the iso by clicking on the iso files link.

iso sha1sum: 4bcf65e3d7044e83898874ef5ed6be4161c25f14

fo697enus manuals sha1sum: 3d2d986bafed8b20f07dc1917e2beb7434036cae

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8Geee

[8Geee]

EDITED Apr. 2, 2018

The mini-eee can be made from the EONS version by simply removing the contennts of the /opt directory, then navigate to /root and show the hidden files... the .softmaker directory can be deleted in full. The iso will be reduced to about 137Mb when remastered.

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8Geee

[8Geee]

There is a bug here, in that I inadvertantly uploaded the suums for the FULL FO697.
The correct sums are INSIDE eons.txt

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8Geee

[8Geee]

Putting these spins through their respective paces for their purposes, I have found that the main eee-spin does not print to foomatic (xqx and zjs are already installed) printers such as hp printers. The mini version is designed as a surfing distro, so its not that important. But the EONS and eee versions should have printing capacity. And they don't.

To make a long and twisted Puppy-tale short, it turns out the bad-guy here is...
BASH.

BASH was upgraded as a result of the Shellshock bug in Oct. 2014 to the Slackware recommended 4.2.53. This broke the printing through CUPS/gutenprint. Gutenprint was removed thinking THAT had broken. The reload of it did not go through the remaster process. And thus no print on these spins.

Well, I got around to it, and hunted down the problem. The original Slacko5.7 by 01micko was fully updated via Slackware. There was NO update for BASH in the list this time around. All of these updates went smoothly, with only minor symlink patches. Annnnd, the printer works. Just remove the larger video drivers for the eeePC version, and that is fixed.

So both the main slacko5.7-2017 and the eee-2017 versions are fixed using the original BASH 4.1.0(2). The mini-eee version will stay with the Slackware invoked
4.2.53 BASH, but will not print (tantalizingly close, just a no transmit of data to printer, but CUPS finds and installs it)

That leaves EONS in a quandry, as it is inteended to be full-service in a small footprint. But no printing seems a waste. So I reverted it to BASH 4.1.0 and all is well.

BUT, one must operate behind a firewall at all times, and not use an unsecured wifi connection. Ethernet behind router is acceptable, but wifi is VERY DICEY.

Although this is a rather focused thread, your thoughts on this stuff is appreciated.

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8Geee

[Sailor Enceladus]

I noticed your new signature says Slacko57-ff23. Did you find an annoyance with Firefox 27 and revert back to 23? Just curious.

[8Geee]

No, that was the 1st spin created.

[8Geee]

As the subject indicates, BASH was reverted to allow EONS to function with printers.
The first post in the thread is now updated with mini-eee and EONS downloads.

The full eeePC version is now coupled with the updated version of Slacko5.7

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8Geee

[8Geee]

bumped due to board-spam

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[8Geee]

There is an update to rxvt in the Slackware updates.
This can be ignored as Slacko5.7 is using Urxvt (unicode-rxvt).
All that is presently installed is a symlink from rxvt to urxvt, and thats all that is needed.

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8Geee

[sheldonisaac]

Please excuse: I don't know exactly where to ask about this.

Yesterday I got an EeePC 1018P, and have put tahr 6.0.6 on it.

Could someone please advise as to whether that OS, or something else, would be good to use?

Please tell me what additional info I should supply.
At the moment, I can think of 250GB spinning disk, 2GB memory, 1.66GHz Atom N455 CPU.

Thank you,
Sheldon

[8Geee]

Sheldon

Have you tried any one of my spins (Slacko5.7 type) on that netbook?

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8Geee

[sheldonisaac]

[8Geee]

A reminder that slackware has published an update to expat (XML parser/handler).
This update needs a symlink in usr/lib. Toss the old 1.6.2 version after installation, then make a symlink from 1.6.4 back to 1.6.2. This symlink fix is necessary.

The usr/doc files may be deleted, and root/.packages needs the new version moved to builtin_packages (the old one can be removed).

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8Geee

[8Geee]

As of today 25/07/17 there is a bugfix at slackware.
It seems that tcpdump's last patch (4.9.0) has a bug that allows a DoS.
The Patch has been fixed as tcpdump4.9.1.

This problem exists in all 4 of my spins, and needs to be serviced.

Upon D/L from Slackware
navigate to usr/sbin and delete tcpdump4.9.0
make a relative link (R-Click on tcpdump4.9.1) and rename the link to tcpdump4.9.0
Click OK (this is all necessary as theres two active tcpdumps)

You may remove the usr/doc files, and MOVE root/.packages/tcpdump4.9.1_files to the "builtin" folder.

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8Geee

[8Geee]

@sheldonisaac

Yes, FF27 is slowto start. ABE has to load (About 9.5Mb). Once started, its faster.
DEPMODE occurs during cd/dvd operation only. Once transferred to USB stick, the layered file system is faster. Placing your personal files in /mnt/home will also ease burdens on the system.

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8Geee