I was playing around with using my squishfs to store my OS image and I noticed if I mounted it in a Live OS it only used the files in needed in ram, if you were to have files available to the user then the main way that was achieved was using /etc/skel the problem with this is it uses the same in ram as the size on the disk.
I was messing about with having an AppImage on the system outside the user and found it doesn't use ram (unless you run it), so using this I was able to offer a much larger collection of Live OS apps without it using more than a few KB extra ram. This could be used to make a complete USB back/recovery or a live OS that you don't have to even install, it just loads what it needs off your USB (or internal drive if you use a HDD image. Then it can have access to any sized squishfs inside that, making it load fast, use no memory and be packed full of apps/tools or games.
I am sure you could use overlayfs and get similar types of results, I was just happy that using the mv command allowed me to shuffle them around on the disk instantly through the Live OS or the installed OS (so long as the destination was on the same disks partition).
I am doing this as a separate post as I feel it may be important to someone or even to me when I forget about it.
Plenty of Linux left for me to learn, but it's a massive playground and I just wish more people were getting involved with developing it alongside me. We are all aware it is the future, I understand people will hold out on windows due to it being foreign and some of the bugs are hard to solve when your not prepared for them. But over the next year we'll get a new v7 kernel that will add so many new features, Ubuntu LTS is planning on moving to this and it will be available mid April, this means the very next version of mint v23 will be based on the same kernel. I also read today that wayland will be coming out of experimental in v23, this means if you have an AMD GPU you'll be set, nVidia is working on their drivers still and I am confident with the new user base Linux has adopted this year that life will only get more enticing and smooth for people wanting alternatives and I am poised to adopt all these improvements to put into my tool set to hare with you all. I am lacking a lot of skill, so I am constantly working on new things to help improve them. One day I might make a difference in peoples lives again, and as with me mastering Vista before anyone else, I am always on the bleeding edge within reason. I am not excited to move to arch, it's a buggy OS and every attempt to automate on it causes it to Black screen boot or refuse to log in - yes I am aware it's a skill issue, but the few FPS I lose using a stable release like Mint mean I can have a OS that is running fine for months, instead of hours like when I try and move my skills I learnt using Debian bases. The fact is it makes more sense to normal people, doesn't take years to master and can be modified to install offline in an hour, can't say the same - even the Manjaro project and Nobara went rolling releases, meaning there is very little point in making a ISO release of it, just install the OS and run LLStore - it's easy as that, I am only focused on Linux Mint still, so can't say everything will run smoothly, originally I supported all the OS's, but the project didn't grow enough for me to keep that up, so it may have lost compatibility by now, I plan to use Cachy OS in the next couple of days, so I'll post how that goes. Like I said though, being a user selection, online installer, there is no reason for me to make a ISO of it
I was messing about with having an AppImage on the system outside the user and found it doesn't use ram (unless you run it), so using this I was able to offer a much larger collection of Live OS apps without it using more than a few KB extra ram. This could be used to make a complete USB back/recovery or a live OS that you don't have to even install, it just loads what it needs off your USB (or internal drive if you use a HDD image. Then it can have access to any sized squishfs inside that, making it load fast, use no memory and be packed full of apps/tools or games.
I am sure you could use overlayfs and get similar types of results, I was just happy that using the mv command allowed me to shuffle them around on the disk instantly through the Live OS or the installed OS (so long as the destination was on the same disks partition).
I am doing this as a separate post as I feel it may be important to someone or even to me when I forget about it.
Plenty of Linux left for me to learn, but it's a massive playground and I just wish more people were getting involved with developing it alongside me. We are all aware it is the future, I understand people will hold out on windows due to it being foreign and some of the bugs are hard to solve when your not prepared for them. But over the next year we'll get a new v7 kernel that will add so many new features, Ubuntu LTS is planning on moving to this and it will be available mid April, this means the very next version of mint v23 will be based on the same kernel. I also read today that wayland will be coming out of experimental in v23, this means if you have an AMD GPU you'll be set, nVidia is working on their drivers still and I am confident with the new user base Linux has adopted this year that life will only get more enticing and smooth for people wanting alternatives and I am poised to adopt all these improvements to put into my tool set to hare with you all. I am lacking a lot of skill, so I am constantly working on new things to help improve them. One day I might make a difference in peoples lives again, and as with me mastering Vista before anyone else, I am always on the bleeding edge within reason. I am not excited to move to arch, it's a buggy OS and every attempt to automate on it causes it to Black screen boot or refuse to log in - yes I am aware it's a skill issue, but the few FPS I lose using a stable release like Mint mean I can have a OS that is running fine for months, instead of hours like when I try and move my skills I learnt using Debian bases. The fact is it makes more sense to normal people, doesn't take years to master and can be modified to install offline in an hour, can't say the same - even the Manjaro project and Nobara went rolling releases, meaning there is very little point in making a ISO release of it, just install the OS and run LLStore - it's easy as that, I am only focused on Linux Mint still, so can't say everything will run smoothly, originally I supported all the OS's, but the project didn't grow enough for me to keep that up, so it may have lost compatibility by now, I plan to use Cachy OS in the next couple of days, so I'll post how that goes. Like I said though, being a user selection, online installer, there is no reason for me to make a ISO of it