Slax 6 RC7 rilasciata

Dopo mesi di lavoro di rifinitura e test ripetuti, non è stata rilasciata ancora la release stabile, ma ancora una versione Release Candidate (la n. 7), sperando di avvicinarci presto a quella definitiva.

http://blog.slax.org/2007/11/08/download-rc7/

Di seguito il file Readme dove viene consigliato il download della versione compressa a blocchi di 256MB, quindi se volete potete scaricare questo file.

Novità e features sul blog di slax 6 e sul forum.

Enjoy

This is Slax 6 release candidate 7.

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While you may think it's better then rc6, it may have more issues.
I'm testing new block size in squashfs, so I don't focus on KDE's settings etc.
(By the way, it's using KDE 3.5.8 and kernel 2.6.23)
Moreover I've fixed many bugs in linux live scripts, and my fixes may introduce
another problems. Let's see.

So here is the deal.
- Slax data is compressed by using LZMA compression algorithm.
- The bigger blocks you compress, the better compression, but slower decompression.
- Squashfs supported 64KB blocks only. But now it supports blocks up to 1MB.

* Here is an overview what great results can be achieved using bigger blocks:
  http://blog.slax.org/2007/11/02/mksquashfs-lzma-block-sizes-comparison/

* And here is described how it affects the speed of the system:
  http://blog.slax.org/2007/11/08/rc7-done-but-offline/

Please test it
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It appears on my computer that block size 256KB is the best compromise between
speed and size (the ISO is 13MB smaller! and boot takes only 4 seconds longer),
but other people with slower computers may have a different opinion/experience.
Slax is widely used on slower machines, so I wish it to be as fast as possible
(while as small as possible, at the same time!)  

So here you have several ISO files with Slax 6 rc7.
Please test the speed of the system with different block sizes and let me know
in case if you believe I should not use the prefered block size of 256KB.
(contact me at www.slax.org/contact.php)

 filename           |  description
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 slax-6-64kb.iso    |  Slax using 64KB block size
 slax-6-128kb.iso   |  Slax using 128KB block size
 slax-6-256kb.iso   |  Slax using 256KB block size
 slax-6-512kb.iso   |  Slax using 512KB block size
 slax-6-1mb.iso     |  Slax using 1MB (1024KB) block size
 --------------------------------------------------------

In order to put the system on USB Flash drive, as usual, extract the iso
directly to your flash key and run ./boot/bootinst.sh

Thank you for testing Slax.
Tomas M