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 [...]
Ballmer finally confesses: Vista sucks
October 9th, 2009 · No Comments · Microsoft
Interesting story on Yahoo! Tech Blog yesterday. Here is a link.
Christopher Null blog
Also see Reasons to Avoid Microsoft
Meanwhile the reviews are statring to come in on Slackware Linux 13.0
Update
Interesting marketing strategy from Microsoft. Our previous operating system was so bad that you should upgrade to our new operating system right away. Apple has picked [...]
Blogging to Live
September 21st, 2009 · No Comments · blogging
My grandfather, Jesse Augustus Perkins (Oct 18, 1872 – Apr 19, 1951), was an engineer on the Central of Georgia Railway.
The family moved back and forth between Columbus, GA where my mom was born to Savannah, GA where she graduated high school.
Then the family did an amazing thing. They sent my mom to [...]
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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 [...]