My Computer, A La Carte
OS installs have gotten easier over the years, whether it's a Linux distribution, Mac OS X, or Windows. Fewer choices to make and fewer technical decisions that need to be pondered. But today, I found the easiest of them all, Slax 6 Build a Distribution and I think it serves as a model for how software should be distributed, a la carte, and as a model for smart system recovery.
Slax, a live CD installation based on Slackware Linux, boots and runs off a CD image. It's small -- the base OS with X-Windows and apps is less than 200 MB. New applications are added as modules when the system boots or during run time. There are hundreds of modules that can be added to Slax and there's plenty of documentation on how to build your own modules. The most interesting part of Slax 6, however, is the build program at slax.org.
Build Slax is an a la carte menu where you can add or remove Slax modules through a Web application. Today, it won't automatically resolve dependencies; you have to add them yourself. But once you are done, click the link to download the .ISO and you get a custom Slax install delivered to you. I took all of 10 minutes to create a custom ISO weighing in at 192 MB, download it, and have it running.
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