blueSW-64pxAfter I released KDE 5_17.06 (June edition of my Plasma 5 package set) for Slackware 14.2 and -current a few days ago, I have now also uploaded an ISO image for the Slackware Live PLASMA5 Edition based on liveslak 1.1.8.1 and Slackware-current dated “Mon Jun 26 20:36:18 UTC 2017“. It will be the only Live variant this time,

If you already use a Slackware Live PLASMA5 USB stick that you do not want to re-format, you should use the “-r” parameter to the “iso2usb.sh” script. The “-r” or refresh parameter allows you to refresh the liveslak files on your USB stick without touching your custom content. I used the script just now on my own PLASMA5 USB stick and updated that from liveslak 1.1.8 to 1.1.8.1 in no time at all.

New in the ISO

The new ISO is based on the latest slackware64-current with Linux kernel 4.9.34, gcc 7.1.0 and glibc 2.25. This is a kernel which has been patched against the Stack Clash vulnerability.

And of course it contains the latest Plasma 5 release “KDE-5_17.06” as found in my ktown repository. You will find Plasma 5.10.2 based on Qt 5.9.0, accompanied by the latest versions of Digikam, Calligra and Krita. Additionally you will find several packages from my regular repository: chromium (with flash and widevine plugins), calibre, vlc, ffmpeg, libreoffice, palemoon, qbittorrent, openjdk and more. There’s also support for Cisco AnyConnect VPN and OpenVPN connections.
The PLASMA5 ISO does not only contain the Plasma 5 Desktop Environments. As usual, it contains the LXQT and Lumina Desktop Environments as well. Both have been recompiled against Qt 5.9.

The ISO is big (4.3 GB) but there’s not much you can not do with it.

Download the ISO image

The ISO image (with MD5 checksum and GPG signature) has been uploaded to the master server (bear) and should be available on the mirror servers within the next 24 hours.

Read more about liveslak

This blog has quite some posts about the Slackware Live Edition. Check them out: http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/tag/live/ – they contain lots of insight and helpful tips.
And this was the original post (which has been edited later on so it could become a proper landing page for curious visitors): http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/slackware-live-edition/

Download liveslak sources

The liveslak project can be found in my git repository: http://bear.alienbase.nl/cgit/liveslak/ . That’s all you need to create a Slackware Live ISO from scratch. Documentation for end users and for Live OS developers is available in the Slack Docs Wiki.

Have fun! Eric