Miss the good times when you could buy #slackware#linux install discs - either from Linux magazines or directly from the maintainer. I’m a bit nostalgic, one might say.
#inxi is such a cool tool, it has local and external IP information on inxi -i, it has weather information in inxi -w. I used to think it was just a great fetch tool, but it literally does everything!
@tripplehelix I laugh every time I see someone utterly clueless say, oh, #inxi is bloated, I could do that in a 100 line shell script and it would be 100x faster. Every significant feature requires massive amounts of work, raw data collection, and unfortunately, the most boring, matching table updates, which there are no single data sources for so those are basically manually generated, using some backend tools for some. Recent complex features only work because #slackware users interested.
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Updated the #nwgshell#slackware#aarch64 repo earlier with the python 3.11 upgrades, as well as pushed all the other updates needed in other repos. NOW I can focus on real updates like hyprland and updating the WebKit-gtk package and deps. Wee! https://slackware.lngn.net/
Initial python3.11 update pushed to the #nwgshell#slackware repo. I think it should all be good, I’ll fix up any issues later. It’s past my bed time now. Let me know if anything’s broken! 👍
So, openssh backdoor through a patch applied by some distros to make it work with systemd, which itself is vulnerable because of a compromise of the LZMA / xz code.
Any #slackware#current#nwgshell users want to try the latest hyprland, I’m not adding it to the repo (yet) but I put the needed pkgs here: https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/staging/ install/upgrade them in your existing (x86_64) install. It works, but I haven’t tested all the things yet.
Updated dav1d, libaom, and webkit2gtk-2.44.0 for #nwgshell#slackware and the readme’s still read, so I’ll call these upgrades safe to push to the repo today. I’ll have to look and see if anything else has slipped past me, but I think we’re basically all up to date already, except for hyprland (and updates always break things), I’ll look into that one. https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/x86_64/slackware64-current/nwg-shell/ChangeLog.txt
This being said, I really like the fact that under #Slackware everything needed to compile rrdtool is included.
These guys have a long list of stuff to be installed on other OS. Under Slackware, all that is needed is the classic invocation "configure && make && make install".
:computerfairies: The History of Slackware - by Bradford Morgan White
「 After the announcement was made, the server began crashing again and again due to the flood of FTP connections from folks trying to download the twenty four floppies comprising the initial release. This problem was solved by Walnut Creek CDROM who offered space on ftp.cdrom.com 」
I have a news alert on Google that is configured to send me an email if someone mentioned #OpenBSD or #Slackware ...
The last two alerts received obviously did not make any sense at all, so either Google Alert is useless (which it has been for a long time, to be honest) or AI sites are increasingly pushing nonsense content down the Googleplex throat. Or both.
Methinks both. AI is going to be the end of the Internet as a useful tool.
It is a bummer that the only way to get #rstats on #Manjaro is through AUR. I have nothing but bad experiences of AUR in Manjaro, even if something works initially, it will break eventually.
I would love to have it in the Manjaro repos or as a #flatpak. It is officially available for #Linux on Ubuntu/Debian, Fedora and OpenSuse, so it ought to be possible.
On a related note, how difficult is it to turn a .deb file into a flatpak?
@waeiski@alxlg after 30 years of that I sometimes get a bit weary when it happens.
I remember I got invited to a physical party that led to a very very drunk me back in the fall of 1994 when I posted a ‘that’s not ok’ remark in alt.humor.jokes
Round about the time that #slackware was the ‘right choice’ since it ‘just worked’ in a sense that the default X configuration didn’t immediately blow up your monitor. 🤘🏻