Dave's Slackware Pages

Created: 2017-02-01

Updated: 2023-08-18

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. :-)

Why Slackware? (updated 2022)
Aerc mail client August 2023 (ONGOING)
Installing Go and Installing Aerc (email client) August 2023
Minecraft Bedrock on a QEMU VM August 2023 (ABANDONED!)
QEMU August 2023
Software I use - July 2023 Updated Aug 2023
dbus hangups (notifications timeout with Slackware and dwm) July 2023
Installing Steam on Slackware 15.0 May 2023 (IN PROGRESS)
Kdenlive and FFmpeg May 2023
X Compose Key May 2023
Slackbuilds.org is pretty amazing March 2023
How I set up new computers with Slackware Feb 2023
Auto-login in Slackware
awesome window manager I think I’m liking it
Setting the clock (set date and time via ntp)
KTuberling in Slackware 15.0
Night Backlight
Three Monitors (ongoing)
pkgblog (Package Blog) (STALLED) my mega-project to document all of Slackware’s base install packages!
Slackware setup for Apache plus PHP-FPM - Just some quick and dirty notes
Slackware and eth1 - a note to self
Mounty - Menu-based temporary drive mounting
Configuring Alpine (mail client)
Brother HL-L5100DN and Slackware Linux

Not quite as Slackware specific:

Dave’s Visual Guide to dwm (Dynamic Window Manager)
How I use dwm
dehydrated quickstart (Let’s Encrypt ACME client)