Hey lq_asking and nooby
first, lq_asking you know I am not a kernel expert of any kind and don't know why your kernel is bigger
have you tried compiling same kernel on different machine?
If you wish I will compile it on my machine(s) and upload it for you?
The 2.6.37 kernels I just compiled with aufs2, squashfs-lzma, and autogroup patches are 4.6mb and 4.7mb respectively for Slackware and ARCH.
In comparison the Salix live 2.6.33.4-smp kernel is 5.2mb
http://enialis.net/~jrd/salix/kernelive/
nooby; I have discontinued, at least temporarily, the four nFluxOS builds (ARCH, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu).
I am concentrating on PocketWriter because I like writing fiction,etc and there is no distro specifically targeted at writers.
The difference between nFluxOS and PocketWriter is all the nFluxOS builds are based on testing/unstable distro's
while PocketWriter is based on Salix OS Slackware 13.1.2 build, which is more stable.
Yes, any Slax derivative can have the live media and the persistent save on a ntfs partition
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action...20slaxsave.dat
http://www.slax.org/forum.php?action...20slaxsave.dat
nooby, I would suggest either Salix OS live/install or Porteus (new Slax)
http://www.salixos.org/wiki/index.php/Home
http://www.porteus.org/
all of my builds include flash, Porteus does as well.