Dave's Slackware Pages
Now that I’ve been using 15.0 for a while, I’m firmly back in the Slackware camp. It’s my favorite general-purpose Linux distro.
bash-5.1$ ufetch
________ dave@cygnus.ratfactor.com
/ ______| OS: Slackware 15.0
| |______ KERNEL: Linux 5.15.19
\______ \ UPTIME: 28 weeks, 5 days, 18 hours, 25 minutes
______| | PACKAGES: 1598
| |________/ SHELL: bash
|____________ WM: awesome
Here is some of my Slackware Linux content. I have quite a few notes to add here and will someday incorporate them all. :-)
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Why Slackware? (updated 2022)
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Aerc mail client August 2023 (ONGOING)
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Installing Go and Installing Aerc (email client) August 2023
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Minecraft Bedrock on a QEMU VM August 2023 (ABANDONED!)
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QEMU August 2023
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Software I use - July 2023 Updated Aug 2023
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dbus hangups (notifications timeout with Slackware and dwm) July 2023
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Installing Steam on Slackware 15.0 May 2023 (IN PROGRESS)
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Kdenlive and FFmpeg May 2023
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X Compose Key May 2023
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Slackbuilds.org is pretty amazing March 2023
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awesome window manager I think I’m liking it
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Setting the clock (set date and time via ntp)
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Three Monitors (ongoing)
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pkgblog (Package Blog) (STALLED) my mega-project to document all of Slackware’s base install packages!
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Slackware setup for Apache plus PHP-FPM - Just some quick and dirty notes
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Configuring Alpine (mail client)
Not quite as Slackware specific:
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Dave’s Visual Guide to dwm (Dynamic Window Manager)
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dehydrated quickstart (Let’s Encrypt ACME client)
External Links
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https://pspodcasting.net/dan/blog/2018/slackware_desktop.html - Dan-Simon Myrlands’s incredible single-page write-up of Slackware. Highly recommended!
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https://docs.slackware.com/ - The Slackware Documentation Project wiki. Sometimes updated!
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https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/forumdisplay.php?forumid=14 - Slackware Forum on Linux Questions is the "Official" forum of Slackware Linux
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https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/ - Alien Pastures - Eric "Alien Bob" Hameleers (if you know, you know) Slackware contributor’s blog
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https://slackalaxy.com/ - Slackalaxy Tales - a Slackware blog (currently on hold, but with a big archive of posts)
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https://slackblogs.blogspot.com/ - Slackbuild super-maintainer (my term) Willy Sudiarto Raharjo’s Slackware blog!
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http://slackermedia.info/ - Slackermedia is a handbook and set of illustrated workflows for creative tools (art, audio, video, etc.) with Slackware. Last updated in 2021.