Personal Status Update and Some Extra Modules for Porteus

TL;DR: Porteus modules here

Roughly two weeks ago, my main PC died and, since I didn’t feel like re-ripping 2.5TiB of movies and music, I spent two weeks of playing Towers of Hanoi with my media library to squeeze it all onto either my brothers’ PCs or one of 100 DVD+Rs.

With that finished and my backup PC (too slow) and backup backup PC (too little expansion room) part-way to being comfortable, I’ve come to several conclusions:

First, that I need to prioritize the completion and enhancement of my roaming profile. (Already in progress with my goal being to use it, a Lubuntu CD, and Dropbox to go from blank hard drive to comfortable PC in under two hours.)

Second, that 32-bit Porteus is the best LiveUSB Linux distro I’ve ever tried and, aside from backsliding on the UI since it was called Slax (something I may volunteer to fix eventually), it’s great… but it doesn’t have all the modules (packages, basically) I want and lacks Slax’s big, community-populated collection.

Therefore, I’ve taken it upon myself to build modules for everything I want.

Some of them (like BasKet Note Pads and Filelight) are converted Slax modules that still work perfectly well, many are converted Slackware packages which have been adjusted if necessary, and some are converted Debian packages.

It’s actually not that hard to do (the website has instructions and Porteus comes with conversion scripts) but it can be somewhat time-consuming so I’m offering the ones I create in case they help anyone else. (I really don’t have the time to be a maintainer in any official sense, or I’d see if the Porteus guys are interested. These’ll probably only get updated when it causes me problems.)

Feel free to use them or not. If you want to verify that I haven’t done anything funny to them, they’re generally easy to match to Slackware, Debian, or Slax packages/modules and diff -ur will tell you the rest.

Personal Status Update and Some Extra Modules for Porteus by Stephan Sokolow is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.