Someone asked me if I knew how many people use my repos for #slackware and my only guess was 5. I honestly have no idea though, I don’t really check server logs anymore nor do I have any kind of software installed for that. I don’t want anyone’s data and I regularly purge old logs anyway.

If people find useful things, then great. Awesome even, but I don’t need to know anything unless its broken. 😁

Someone asked me if I knew how many people use my repos for #slackware and my only guess was 5. I honestly have no idea though, I don’t really check server logs anymore nor do I have any kind of software installed for that. I don’t want anyone’s data and I regularly purge old logs anyway.

If people find useful things, then great. Awesome even, but I don’t need to know anything unless its broken. 😁

After years without compiling a kernel, I'm giving it another shot! 🐧

Building Linux kernel 6.19.3 on Slackware using Patrick's official SlackBuilds, starting from my 6.18.13 config as a base.

-> 6.19 brings some nice ext4 improvements that caught my attention:

• Support for block sizes larger than page size (can improve buffered write performance in some workloads)
• Faster online defragmentation using folios instead of legacy buffer heads
• Smarter POSIX ACL caching, avoiding redundant permission checks on files without ACLs

@thesaigoneer @dobbie003 @r1w1s1

So here is a video of recently updated noctalia-shell patched by @jloc0 . Thanks for that! (I'll add the vid to my PR comments, they shouldn't need more convincing than that!)

#slackware #noctalia #labwc

https://youtu.be/oxOPz38acH0

@thesaigoneer @dobbie003 @r1w1s1

So here is a video of recently updated noctalia-shell patched by @jloc0 . Thanks for that! (I'll add the vid to my PR comments, they shouldn't need more convincing than that!)

#slackware #noctalia #labwc

https://youtu.be/oxOPz38acH0

@jloc0 @thesaigoneer @dobbie003 @r1w1s1
A big update for me today (haven't updated since Monday) including Ktown, Nocatalia, Dank, kernels etc. 156 packages.

#Slackware

@rl_dane @EF @spaceraser @peteorrall

Because, if you want a Linux distro that has the attitude of a #BSD, #Slackware is for you. It's simple and use a BSD style init script and does not modify any packages; the software is practically all sourced from upstream.

It is no coincidence that it is defined as the most BSD of the distros 😄 (practically the oldest).

Someone posted an old Slackware 2005 setup (KDE 3.3.2, kernel 2.4) and it instantly brought back memories.

Before systemd. Before Wayland.
Just KDE 3, Konsole, and Slackware doing exactly what you told it to do.

20 years later and the philosophy hasn’t changed.

https://www.reddit.com/r/unixporn/s/H0QrkazxbJ

#slackware #kde #x11