[Announce] SlimCD - SlimServer on a live CD

[mherger]

I've been tinkering a Linux live CD with one single purpose: run
slimserver and softsqueeze without the need to install anything. It's
based on DSL/Knoppix and features the following:

- SlimServer 6.1 (upgradable to the latest nightly build)
- SoftSqueeze 2.0
- FireFox
- A few plugins like
Advanced Alarm
Album Review
AlienBBC
Biography
Extended Synchronize
Quick Access
Random Play
Shadow Play
- Perl 5.8.6, Java 1.5, mplayer

Well, this isn't so damn small as it's ancestor... But still: it's only a
90MB download available from
http://www.herger.net/slim/detail.php?nr=763

Now if someone could get this to run from a USB stick... (should be
possible, but I don't have a machine which can do this trick).

Have fun!

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[mherger]

There's still a problem with the reply-to header. Your answer went to me
personally.

> Excellent work, Michael. Gotta carry this around with me everywhere!

My original plan was to have this image on a memory stick which is
writable and use the HD only for the music files. This could give a nice
and quiet fileserver: shut down the HD if there's no music playing.

> I've posted it on the Plugins page on the web site, feel free to cross
> post this to the Plugins forum.

I did not know where to post. If "plugins" was called "third party" or
"contribs"... Thanks for the free ticket to cross post :-)

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[Jim]

Downloading now, I like the idea of this to try out how is Slimserver under Linux. Always great to see people doing neat things.

2 points to make though.

1 - The file is a .iso file, for bandwith wouldn't it be worth zipping or raring it?

2 - I don't know your hosting arrangements but to save you money/bandwith wouldn't it make sense releasing it as a torrent or on the emule network? Of course, the nice guys at slimdevices.com could always host it

[seanadams]

Cool - I might just give this a try since the filesystem on my Mandrake machine just took a dump (figuratively).

If you want us to mirror, we do have a few Mbps to spare at the moment. Let me know.

[mherger]

> Downloading now, I like the idea of this to try out how is Slimserver
> under Linux. Always great to see people doing neat things.

I hope you like it.

> 1 - The file is a .iso file, for bandwith wouldn't it be worth zipping
> or raring it?

Not worth the effort: with zip -9 I won 1%. This is little surprising as
the idea behind Knoppix & co. is to have a highly compressed system image
on a CD. I think Knoppix packs >2GB on a CD. SlimCD contains more than
200MB of data.

> 2 - I don't know your hosting arrangements but to save you

Unlimited traffic - I'll test their word :-). Yesterday's/tonight's
downloads of the iso file represent almost half of this year's traffic for
that domain... I have access to two other machines, will think about a
mirroring mechanism.

How was the download rate? From the stats they're publishing they should
have plenty of bandwith available.

> money/bandwith wouldn't it make sense releasing it as a torrent or on
> the emule network? Of course, the nice guys at slimdevices.com could
> always host it

I don't have root access to these machines, they are web hosting only. But
well, if SD wants to jump in, I won't say no.

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[mherger]

> Cool - I might just give this a try since the filesystem on my Mandrake
> machine just took a dump (figuratively).

If the music is on the same file system you'll be lost. There's no network
filesystem client built-in (not sure whether NFS is by default). But I was
thinking about integrating samba.

> If you want us to mirror, we do have a few Mbps to spare at the moment.
> Let me know.

Thanks! I'd be happy to do so, but have no idea how this would work.

I'm monitoring the downloads. I'm quite surprised about last night's
number of downloads. But this was the first rush. I guess it will quickly
calm down.

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[Jim]

Not worth the effort: with zip -9 I won 1%.

Yeah, once downloaded I realised that!

How was the download rate? From the stats they're publishing they should have plenty of bandwith available.

I was getting about 35k/sec with a download manager (I was being naughty and using 4 slots)

P.S. Your website - I wanted to checkout some of the plugins. You describe them well, but where are the download links!?

[mherger]

> mherger Wrote:
>> How was the download rate? From the stats they're publishing they should
>> have plenty of bandwith available.
> I was getting about 35k/sec with a download manager (I was being
> naughty and using 4 slots)

Hmm... I can easily fill my DSL connection (>160kB/sec). And I guess you
even downloaded it when activity here in Switzerland was rather low. But
maybe there will be a mirror in the US soon (thanks to Sean ;-)).

> P.S. Your website - I wanted to checkout some of the plugins. You
> describe them well, but where are the download links!?

As with the CD they're right after the introductory text. Maybe I'll add a
"Download" before the actual link.

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[Jim]

It was the SysInfo one I was really looking for, and there´s no link for that one.

http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/d...e=slim-plugins

[Jim]

It was the SysInfo one I was really looking for, and there´s no link for that one.

http://www.herger.net/slim-plugins/d...e=slim-plugins

And there is now!

Did you just change it or am I going crazy !!?