This is the fourth installment of our Turning to Slackware 13.0 series.
By now all the Slackware packages have been installed, changes have been made to the /etc directory and to /usr/local. We have a boot logo for Slackware plus any other operating system (Windows for example) which would be controlled by LILO
We have turned from [...]
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Turning to Slackware – Turn 4
January 31st, 2010 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Turning to Slackware – Turn 3
January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, thinkpad
This is installment three of my series on Slackware version 13.0. In chapter one I described how I installed Slackware 13.0 on a computer whose primary mission is to run Climate Prediction work units.
In chapter two network setup and changes to /etc were covered along with my reason for preferring the additional step [...]
Turning to Slackware – Turn 2
December 22nd, 2009 · 1 Comment · boinc, linux, thinkpad
This is installment two of my series on Slackware version 13.0. In chapter one I described how I installed Slackware 13.0 on a computer whose primary mission is to run Climate Prediction work units. At this point all of the Slackware packages are in place, I have added slackupdate and I have added [...]
Turning to Slackware – Turn 1
December 19th, 2009 · 2 Comments · boinc, linux, thinkpad
Installing Slackware Linux is a pretty straightforward proposition – I’ve done it on numerous computers, but preserving my data during a distribution change required some additional steps. The purpose of this series is to describe those steps. I switched from OpenSUSE 10.3 to Slackware 13.0, the latest version. First, some background on the computer and [...]
People’s Astronomy
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · boinc
In E&T’s second International Year of Astronomy feature, we discover that destinations for future space missions may be decided not by agencies like NASA, but by groups of ordinary people engaged in citizen computing.
Question: what kind of person does it require to detect gravity waves in the universe, or calculate the 46th prime number? If [...]
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