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• Bleeding at the edges again?

  
  Alien Pastures — Authority: 112
  … Ok, ok, it is not so bad actually! Au contraire! Slackware Linux development made a big leap today, when Pat Volkerding updated the distro’s “vital organs” of kernel , glibc and gcc . The “dull” phase of the slackware-current development cycle is over hopefully, and it’s back to the bleeding ...
  2 days ago

• Second beta of KDE 4.4

  
  Alien Pastures — Authority: 112
  Just before christmas in 2009, the KDE community released the second beta of the upcoming KDE 4.4 desktop environment (or to use the correct name, KDE Software Compilation 4.4 ). In Slackware Linux’s development tree we still have 4.3.4 which works really well, but in KDE 4.4 some major strides are being ...
  3 days ago

• Slackware and Arch Compared

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  I havent been posting lately since last year (its 2010 now, so HAPPY NEW YEAR for all of you). Slackware-Current hasnt shown any updates on the Changelog, which means that the team are on vacation or perhaps they are testing something on the background which is not ready for public consumptions. Anyways, today i came ...
  3 days ago

• How to choose a Linux distribution flow chart

  
  Telephone Issues — Authority: 163
  The new year is here and you have made a resolution to give Linux a try. A noble resolution and one that will be met, initially, with much confusion. Why? Linux isn’t like Windows where your choice is limited to a single release with different features (depending upon how much you want to spend) or OS X where you ...
  4 days ago

• Flash crashes Firefox on x86_64

  
  Alien Pastures — Authority: 112
  Some people have reported that on 64-bit Slackware, and after installing Adobe’s 64-bit Flash plugin , their Firefox crashes with an “ illegal instruction ” error  when it loads a page containing flash video (like Youtube)… I never had this issue, and for a lot of other people, flash works fine as well. ...
  4 days ago

• Absolute Linux is a light-weight modification of Slackware Linux

  
  Linuxlandit & The Conqueror Worm — Authority: 434
  Paul Sherman has released Absolute Linux 13.0.5, an updated version of the Slackware-based distribution featuring the lightweight IceWM window manager: "Absolute Linux 13.0.5 released. Monthly minor release cycle? Primarily security updates (kernel, GIMP, Firefox, BIND, etc.). Also removed Brasero (CD burning) ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Slackware 13.0

  
  fsdaily.com - Free Software News - Published news — Authority: 158
  When Slackware 13 came a few months ago on the LXF magazine, I decided to throw it into Virtualbox to see how it has changed. One difference this time around is that I now have the dual core machine so I am running Slackware on that machine.
  2 weeks ago

• Terminals

  
  nixCraft Linux Forum — Authority: 148
  hi ..!! I installed slackware and changed the run level to 4 ..!! it is working fine .. but the terminals in F1 is occupied giving message as X11 .. and I am not able to login ... even terminals like F2,F3,F4,F5 will not work ...but in only F6 it is prompting for root login and password .. could you tell me how ...
  2 weeks ago

• Security Update: Seamonkey

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  Seamonkey packages has been upgraded to 2.0.1, the latest version which synchronized with latest Firefox release yesterday. Along with these packages, akonadi and liblastfm was rebuilt. Im not sure why. Its a small updates, so it wont take too long to get the updates on your system
  2 weeks ago

• Managing Ipod Using gtkpod

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  I have an iPod with me and i used to use Apple iTunes to manage it on Windows. Since i now completely wiped out Windows on my laptop and i never logged in to my Windows on my desktop, i need to find a way to be able to manage my iPod on Linux. I have heard about gtkpod project since a long time ago, but i never ...
  2 weeks ago

• KDE 4.3.4, Firefox, and Many More

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  Big bunch of updates happened today on -Current. KDE stock has been upgraded to KDE 4.3.4 and many libraries are upgraded as well. Im quite surprised, since KDE 4.4.x will land on January/February and KDE 4.3.4 might be the last maintenance release due to developers are focusing on KDE 4.4.x release. Besides that, ...
  2 weeks ago

• Review: Slackware 13.0

  
  It's A Binary World 2.0 — Authority: 117
  Even though I gave up on reviewing Linux distros a while back, I keep getting mountains of hits on here for people who who want Linux reviews.  Since my Slackware 12.2 review was the second-most commented post on this blog, I decided it was a good distro to revisit.  So, when Slackware 13 came a few months ago on ...
  3 weeks ago

• Better font rendering in Wine

  
  Alien Pastures — Authority: 112
  I have just bought a Sitecom Multifunctional Print Server, the LN-308 . Unfortunately, this printer comes with a MS-Windows based control center application, which you need in order to configure the printserver over the local network. As a Slackware Linux user, this fact could not defeat me, and I tried my luck with ...
  3 weeks ago

• MOPSLinux is a Russian community distribution based on Slackware Linux.

  
  Linuxlandit & The Conqueror Worm — Authority: 434
  The first beta release of MOPSLinux 7.0, a Russian Slackware-based community distribution with an advanced package manager, is ready for download and testing. According to the release announcement, the distribution has now reached a reasonable level of stability to call this release a "beta". The most important ...
  3 weeks ago

• Another Linux Users

  
  My Personal Blog — Authority: 129
  One of my student recently bought a new Dell laptop and he installed Slackware on it. There were some problems, but after he came to me this morning, i was able to fix some of his problem. I leave the rest for him to work it out, but i gave him a clue and at night, he reported that he managed to fix the wireless ...
  3 weeks ago

• K3B Upgraded

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  When Slackware 13.0 is released, K3B application was considered broken, thus Pat decided to put the old version of K3B on extra/ directory along with some old KDE 3 libraries so that people could use that version to have a working K3B. Nowadays, people have reported that the version used in KDE 4 is working and ...
  3 weeks ago

• Security Update: GIMP

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  GIMP has been upgraded to the latest version to fix security problem. Mozilla Thunderbird is also upgraded to 3.0, the latest version which has been released few days ago by Mozilla. Congratulations to Mozilla and enjoy the new applications. Heres the -Current changelog: Sat Dec 12 04:51:11 UTC 2009 ...
  3 weeks ago

• Security Update: ntp

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  NTP package has been upgraded to fix security problem, which was a denial-of-service attack involving spoofed mode 7 packets. This is the only update for today. Im still waiting for KDE 4.3.4, even though it would be better to wait until KDE 4.4 is coming on Slackware-Current. Im sure Robby and Eric are now testing ...
  3 weeks ago

• Welcome Windows user!

  
  Alien Pastures — Authority: 112
  … I am going to show you how to create a Slackware USB installer when all you have is a Windows computer. As a Linux user, this would not cause you any problems since there is a shell script that does the work for you – all you need is the Slackware DVD and a re-usable USB stick of sufficient size. If you run ...
  4 weeks ago

• Security Update: Kernel

  
  SlackBlogs — Authority: 116
  Its very rare to see Slackware released a security update on kernel packages, but today it happened. Slackware patched the kernel due to problem found by David Ford which can caused the system to immediate hang when it received an over-sized IP packets. Here are the changes in -Current today: Tue Dec 8 20:44:44 UTC ...
  4 weeks ago

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