Dave's Slackware Pages

Page created: 2017-02-01
Updated: 2026-08-21
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

2026 Update: When the 15.0 update finally game out, I said I was, "firmly back in the Slackware camp. It’s my favorite general-purpose Linux distro." Well, that was four and a half years ago (15.0 was released February 2022) and we’re back with a stale OS again! The release cycle is crap and I’m absolutely not running "-current", which would go against half the reasons I run Slackware in the first place!

For the last couple years, I’ve been experimenting with the BSDs. I’ve switched my servers entirely over to OpenBSD and have even been trial-running it as a desktop OS. It works fine, but I might end up with FreeBSD or NetBSD. I particularly like the NetBSD emphasis on a small, clean codebase and hobbyist use. And I particularly like that it has its own implementation of curses. I love a scrappy, rebellious underdog with a good heart!

Here is some of my Slackware Linux content. I have quite a few notes to add here and will someday incorporate them all. :-)

Not quite as Slackware specific:

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