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 [...]
Slackware 13.0 Coming Soon
August 3rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux
A development release of Slackware Linux, version 13.0RC1 was made available on July 2, 2009. Looks like the production version will be based on Linux kernel 2.6.29.x
Update: A second development release, version 13.0RC2 was made available on August 6, 2009.
For me, Slackware is the Linux distribution of choice though I’ve used some others like [...]
Old 770Zs Never Die They Just BOINC Away
April 23rd, 2009 · No Comments · linux, old computers, thinkpad
Recently we published Introduction to BOINC which said that older computers could be useful for processing Berkeley Open Infrastructure For Network Computing, BOINC, work units. These computers, retrofitted with Linux instead of Windows can contribute to the public good by looking for pulsars in outer space, searching for life on other planets, studying protein folding, [...]
Introduction to BOINC
March 7th, 2009 · No Comments · The Press Always Gets it Wrong, linux, old computers, thinkpad
Use the idle time on your computer (Windows, Mac, or Linux) to cure diseases, study global warming, discover pulsars, and do many other types of scientific research. It’s safe, secure, and easy:
Sounds simple, doesn’t it? Well yes downloading and installing the BOINC client software is simple. There is more to this than you might [...]
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Fixing a ThinkPad T30
February 14th, 2009 · No Comments · linux, thinkpad
I bought a used ThinkPad T30 on eBay. It did not have the maximum memory (1024MB) so I upgraded. Some months later the computer reported that it had 512MB of memory.
What happened? One of the slots had stopped working. Turns out that this is a known problem in ThinkPad T30s and there is a fix [...]
Tags:old computers·thinkpad