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[Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>]

Hi Chu-Ching,

Thanks for the work !

Best wishes, Joris

On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:02:53AM +0800, chu-ching huang wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Recently,  I try to build a bootable platform with Texmacs. Slax is a 
> flexible
> live linux based on Slackware Linux. Slax linux owns elementary necessary
> functions and is under 200 Mbytes. The best is that it allows user to scale
> the whole system by adding independent "modules". At this moment, slax
> official site supports only texmacs-1.0.6.lzm, which lzm is named by its
> compressed method. 
> 
> Based on last slax version, slax rc7, I rebuilded guile-1.8.3.lzm,
> TeXmacs-1.0.6.12.lzm, maxima-5.14.lzm (to solve the library dependency). 
> With
> other modules gnuplot-4.2.1.lzm etc, a light weight
> live linux system with TeXmacs is created with size only about 330 Mbytes!
> 
> I will upload it to ftp://math.cgu.edu.tw/pub/slax
> 
> You can try it as mobile TeXmacs system!
> 
> P.S.
> 1. This platform can be smaller after burn to cdrom if unnecessary
> modules are removed, for examples, blender, python, libtools etc.
> 
> 2. In future update, you can download the newest slax from official site and
> copy original modules into "/slax/modules" directory.
> 
> 3. You can also make a read/write USB pendriver bootable Linux. First 
> create a
> cdrom version. Prepare a 512 Mbytes USB pendriver, copy all the directory 
> into
> USB pendriver and execute /boot/bootinst to make it bootable.
> Then a USB Linux with TeXmacs is created. Remember it is "writable" without
> any configuration after created. If you want to make a new image based on 
> your
> whole environment, just execute /slax/make_iso.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> cch