Den 2014-11-11 22:10, Walter Lapchynski skrev: > Please join us for a Lubuntu-specific session at the Ubuntu Online > Summit! It takes place from 1900-1955 UTC on Thursday 13 November > 2014. It's called "Latest Developments in Lubuntu Development:" > http://summit.ubuntu.com/uos-1411/meeting/22341/latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development/ > > It will cover the current state of the team and what we're working on, > with lots of info on LXQt. If you look at the blueprint you'll get an > overview of what we're going to cover: > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/community-1411-latest-developments-in-lubuntu-development > > If you guys have any other topics you would like to discuss, please > let me know. I plan on working on the presentation tonight, so please > let me know as soon as possible. Thanks! >
*A simpler and more reliable method for persistent live drives* Debian and Ubuntu based ISO files contain read only ISO 9660 file systems and make read-only systems in USB drives (as well as in CD/DVD disks), when copied/flashed/cloned with mkusb. They need a tool, that recognizes and picks the pieces and install them into another file system (usually FAT32), and after that a casper-rw file or partition can be created for persistence. openSUSE comes with different ISO files for live systems. I have checked and both of openSUSE-13.1-GNOME-Live-i686.iso openSUSE-13.2-KDE-Live-x86_64.iso contain UDF file systems and create an ext3 'hybrid' read-write partition for persistence automatically, when installed by mkusb into USB drives. mkusb is a shellscript wrapped around 'dd' to make the copying/cloning/flashing method safe and convenient. I guess it works also with read-write CD/DVD disks but I have not tried that (I have never used such a disk). So the openSUSE kind of live system will get persistence, when installed with mkusb. This UDF system can be both an advantage and disadvantage. + It is very convenient to get persistence this way, and the success rate making USB boot drives is higher than with other methods. - You may not want persistence . because it make the live session slower . because you want to avoid the risk of virus or other malware (but we can make a switch where to select persistence while making the pendrive and another switch to use each time the pendrive is booted). - There may be booting problems in very old computers, that might not work with the UDF file system. The following is cut and edited from the output of sudo lsblk -fm ----- sdb udf openSUSE 13.1 GNOME Live 2013-11-06-16-04-23-00 ├─sdb1 udf openSUSE 13.1 GNOME Live 2013-11-06-16-03-58-00 └─sdb2 ext3 hybrid 98aaa7f2-6f7e-4728-b937-d5fbf18639ab /read-write sdb 7.5G root disk brw-rw---- ├─sdb1 910.2M root disk brw-rw---- └─sdb2 6.6G root disk brw-rw---- ----- I think it can be worthwhile considering for a future release of the Ubuntu flavours, maybe before but at least for '16.04 LTS'. It should be possible to borrow the technology and replace the ISO file system with UDF and let the installer create a partition for persistence, when the target drive can be written to. Best regards Nio -- Lubuntu-users mailing list Lubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/lubuntu-users
