I think alphaos needs a wiki page.
Anyone interested in setting this up?
Scooby wrote:You do know that linux intelligently prefetches
data into RAM so even without toram if you
only booted with base modules and have like 4GB RAM you would feel no difference
Scooby wrote:/toram and /changes both reside in folder
/mnt/live/memory so there is no conflict
jonas wrote:Yes, I see now that I misread the script. Told you I'm not a programmer
crashsite wrote:hmm I tried to create a savefile while booted in toram. Guess what happened?
yeah, savefile got created in the ram, and size got bigger than actual memory so everything dies.
crashsite wrote:For the next version, maybe add a check for savefile size vs free memory on the device and the possibility to create the savefile at a user selected location? I know there is an easy work around (boot without toram), but it is more a matter of user friendliness....
crashsite wrote:hmm I tried to create a savefile while booted in toram. Guess what happened?
yeah, savefile got created in the ram, and size got bigger than actual memory so everything dies
Scooby wrote:I found out sim is using a custom linux-firmware module which is of size 2.7MB
the on on arch is 24MB. Should I add all 24MB or only jonas's 7260 firmware
i.e is it a problem if iso grows? iso could be reaching 200MB boundary soon?
Also I saw in new linux-firmware b43 was missing
What to do?
Scooby wrote:I beg you all to remember alphaos is really only
one programmer with a userbase of perhaps five.
It will always be an os where you will have to
tweak a lot yourselves. I am not really interested in making it 100% userfriendly.
more aiming at enthusiasts
I will always help you but be prepared to do some work yourselves
Time is sparse for all so instead of thinking of all possible features, think of the ones you really
like
The rest will have to go on a separate list for
to be chewed off if I get unemployed or something similar
john3voltas wrote:2. I don't know...packer has been in the heart of alphaos for a long time. :S What exactly is the reason to change to apacman?
jonas wrote:The firmware package in latest Porteus 3.1 is only slightly bigger than in AlphaOS but newer and includes at least the Intel 7260 firmware. Maybe you can use that? Anyway, installing the full linux-firmware from Arch, if needed, is not so difficult. Having to recompile kernel modules is more of a hassle.
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