the reason is simple Tomas is responsible for many of the scripts and related things that gave the world most livecd’s today, his slax webpage’s allow you to make and add your own modules for all to see and use AND dynamic load them on the fly right there and then once your on the page you want.

but most of all its old school and he lets you post without first needing to register there just to say “thanks” or “how do i” questions, thats so undervalued today, but i hate having to register everywhere just to add a off the cuff comment LOL, porteus should also allow that but doesnt, and they don’t seem to make it easy to find their versions of the modules.

but by far slax’s best option is that select a ready made PXE Booting Slax option at first slax CD boot time, to share an exact copy of whatever’s on that CD over the LAN/WAN.

http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action=view&parentID=28004
” Tomas M
wrote 3 years ago

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Slax PXE booting works this way:

1) on the server computer, boot Slax using the ‘Slax as PXE server’ boot menu. This computer will act as a server, it will start its own DHCP server and HTTP server and will provide Slax data for all the other machines

2) on the same LAN segment, boot other PCs from network. You usually have to go into BIOS and change some settings there, so the computer doesn’t look for OS on harddisk, but it sends some network request and waits for response. The ‘Slax as PXE server’ machine will send the response, and it will autoconfigure everything automatically.

If your network card is supported by one of the drivers which are in Slax’s initrd, all computers on the same LAN will be able to boot Slax directly from network, without any other boot medium.”

some other app’s you might to make slax modules for and include in your spud version as i use them and their good

http://www.boomerangsworld.de/worker/ file manager

http://veetle.com/index.php/download the watch and broadcast components you need to install to use, and so be up and running as a broadcaster in less than 2 minutes, no registration required

a current git pull of ffmpeg/x264 and vlc OC so you can encode and stream all you local video content over batman.

ffmpeg.exe -threads 4 -i “input.mkv” -f mp4 -vcodec libx264 -crf 21 -minrate 700k -maxrate 1100k -bufsize 1100k -refs 3 -preset fast -profile high -flags2 -bpyramid -wpredp 0 -strict experimental -acodec aac -ac 2 -ab 128k -vf hqdn3d,unsharp=5:5:0.5,setdar=16:9 “output.mp4″

does it just fine and makes a really small file.

and finally i also like to also carry a http://www.freenas.org/ cd so i can make almost instant iSCSI mass storage of of any old PC and set of hard drives i might have around, i like iSCSI best as its the fastest open LAN way to make virtual drives on any old windows pc’s once you also get the windows free iSCSI driver , good for storing lots of those x264 encoded files for batman wireless use LOL

shame it’s not linux based and so not slax module usable but still its the best option for free standing wireless mesh networks NAS there is, try it on an old pc.

and finally if your able id like to know how or preferably have it set up as standard on any slax spud/batman…..

if you can make BM use “bonding” as in LAN Ethernet grouping together several LAN 1 gig cards to make a single virtual 2 gig or more pipe between the whole LAN but in wireless channel and several wireless card bonding if you see what i mean ?
see Router/Bridge Linux Firewall http://www.zeroshell.net/eng/ the wirless bonding sections, 3G, b,d and N, als well as wired ethernet OC.

these apps are your basic building blocks for any serious end user free batman ISP in a box if you will take a look as see what you make of them to try and make it all inclusive and simple from a web page interface etc. rebol http://www.rebol.com/download.html is also a very good app to check out if you are god with scripting and what to make simple GUis for weg pages and stand alone etc….later ,TechU

namely you could make a simple batman and related set of modules for slax or more upto date porteus live cd;s to simply load from a base vf or usb stick

see
http://www.slax.org/ and http://porteus.org/ for the images and the forums for making a simple module for each, FAR better than your standard linux live cds and slax especially can boot over the wired LAN as its got all the required apps already setup to automate that from the forst cd boot try it and Please make a SPUD/batman self contained module and links for people to download and try ASAP.

batman is soo cool but it needs a livecd and lots of {R to make it and spud known and advocated everywhere, even in the so called developed world as they need this too and can help the others build open end user meshes al over the world and bypass the ISPs lockdowns

There is a known issue with the parsing of the JSON output of the VIS server. If you use VIS server 0.32, SPUD works out of the box.

We will be providing a new setting in SPUD GUI to select with version of VIS you are talking to (0.32 or trunk)