It’s that time again for a fresh batch of ISOs for Slackware Live Edition.
The ISO files are based on Slackware-current of “Sat Oct 23 18:57:30 UTC 2021” and using the liveslak-1.4.0 scripts.

The Slackware-current snapshot on which the Live ISOs are based contains a Linux 5.14.14 kernel.
This is not yet the pre-emptive variant of 5.14.14 which you can find in “./testing” inside today’s Slackware-current mirrors. However, you can use liveslak’s “upslak.sh” script to easily upgrade the kernel on your persistent USB Live if you want.
It’ll be interesting to see how it improves real-time performance on the DAW Live platform.

The new ISOs for the Slackware Live Edition can be obtained at download.liveslak.org .

Note that a new “DAW” ISO variant is missing for the moment.

Update 28-Oct:
I have uploaded a DAW ISO to the ‘latest‘ folder. It is based on liveslak-1.4.0.1 using kernel 5.14.15 and with full preemption enabled out of the box.

The upgrade in Slackware of Python to version 3.10 forces me to do a lot of re-compilations or upgrades of the software that has a Python3 dependency and unfortunately in the DAW package set, that’s quite many of them.
Give me a couple of days and the new DAW ISO will appear on the above URL. I’ll try and make a liveslak-1.4.0.1 release that supports the preemptive kernel in ‘testing’ and enables the full preemption model on boot of the DAW Live.
In the meantime, you can still obtain a DAW ISO from a month or so ago in the “1.3.10” directory.

I refreshed he ‘bonus‘ section as well with updated live modules for the binary Nvidia driver (already contained in the CINNAMON, DAW and MATE ISOs by the way), the Broadcom STA driver (wl) and an uptodate multilib package collection.

Hghlight for liveslak-1.4.0 is the extended syntax for the ‘persistence’ boot parameter. You can now point your Live OS to a persistence directory or container which is located in a subdirectory below the filesystem root.
Additionally, you can specify the partition containing the filesystem on which the persistence is located, or simply specify ‘scandev’, to request that liveslak tries to find the partition for you:

persistence=/dev/sdX:/path/to/mypersistence
persistence=scandev:/path/to/mypersistence

In addition, a UUID or LABEL value of the filesystem is accepted:

persistence=cd68b6f5-5b5a-4d27-9649-7827489f94a5:/path/to/mypersistence

This creates opportunities for PXE boot where persistence was not possible; the live modules will get mounted from a NFS export and the overlay filesystem does not support writing to a NFS layer. Storing your persistent data on a local hard drive or even a USB stick that you plug into the PXE client computer will solve that predicament.

Have fun! Eric