Slackware Needs Your Help

The times have been difficult for many of us this past few years. For Slackware, it’s been no exception. Some of you faithful Slackers may have noticed lately that the Slackware home page has been offline. I posted about this at Jeremy’s Linux Questions forums. Alien Bob (Eric Hameleers) replied stating that it was an [...]

Midori On Slackware – Using SlackBuilds

Yes, I’m still on spring hiatus, but the place was getting to look a bit run down. Plus, I wanted to show you all how to install this cool little browser that I found called Midori. Oh, it’s nothing new. It’s been around for a while, but it’s new to me. I first found it [...]

Let’s Build a SlackBuild (Revisited)

SlackBuilds are custom written installation scripts used to install non-native applications into your Slackware Linux operating system. The SlackBuild Project is maintained by a small group of dedicated folks. Your assistance with new script submissions is always welcome. For today’s little SlackBuild tutorial, I’m going to use a SlackBuild to install PysolFC, a collection of [...]

xfce4-weather-plugin Fix for Slackware

Some of you Slackers out there who use this panel applet may have noticed that it’s no longer updating. There’s a reason why: Xfce Bugzilla – Bug 8105. I’d been sloughing this off for a few weeks now. Today, I decided I was going to find a way to fix the damned thing… or dump it [...]

Slackware for the Laptop

I run Slackware 13.37 w/ Xfce on my laptop. It works in its typical Slackware way… perfectly. I was perusing my favorite blogs this morning and ran across a gem by Barnaby at Linux, BSD, and Everything Else. He’s running Slackware on his lappy also. I’ve got Slackware 13.37 on a partition on my Acer [...]

Graphical Boot-up? I Don’t Think So (Revisited)

Graphical Boot-up? I Don’t Think So Posted by V. T. Eric Layton on Apr 9, 2010 It’s a Slackware thing, baby. Real Slackers don’t use a graphical boot-up screen. Ever since I can remember, I’ve modified my /etc/inittab in every distribution I use to boot-up using runlevel 3 as the default. This gives you full [...]

How I Got My Nickname (Revisited)

How I Got My Nickname Posted by V. T. Eric Layton on Mar 31, 2010 What exactly is a “nocturnal slacker”? Is it some late night lazy slob who hangs out and posts baloney like this online? Umm… well, could be. However, that’s really not the origin of the nickname. The “nocturnal” part of my [...]

Slackware Release Announcement – 13.37

From Patrick J. Volkerding: Yes, it’s that time again!  After many months of development and careful testing, we are proud to announce the release of Slackware version 13.37! We are sure you’ll enjoy the many improvements.  We’ve done our best to bring the latest technology to Slackware while still maintaining the stability and security that [...]