Quite happy with what ive had from slackware for the past couple of years and i have subscribed. Stan ragets blog install chrome on slackware linux 14. If you are close in networking terms, maybe or maybe not geographically to one of the mirror sit. If you are running a mirroring service and pulling data from multiple repositories on a regular basis, please email for access to the toplevel repo so you can pull everything in one go. Installing software overview there are three basic ways to install software in slackware. Does anyone think that moving from arch to slackware is worth it. Nov 09, 20 long waited new version of slackware 14. Some people were asking us to make small tutorial about how to install slackware. Jt smith this tutorial shows how you can set up a slackware 12 gnulinux desktop that is a fullfledged replacement for a windows desktop, i. After over a year of development including the beta release and several release candidates to get everything polished up were proud to announce the availability of the new. After that, install slackpkg using the installpkg command. Including the latest popular software while retaining a sense of tradition, providing simplicity and ease of use alongside flexibility and power, slackware brings the. I provide several mirrors on this server thanks to donations from several people who allow me to keep paying the rent.
Debiancentos backport patches to packages so that the configs dont change during a release. Ive never personally had this problem, but ive heard of people who cant get 14. However, the package md5 sums and gpg signatures are intended to be served directly from this site, so you should have an added layer of trust that the content of those files was not modified in transit if you use s instead. Drill into those connections to view the associated network performance such as latency and packet loss, and application process resource utilization metrics such as cpu and memory usage.
See the official documentation for technical details on how this works. Ease of use grandpafriendly certified relatively small size 300 mb or less. Included are the command line utilities installpkg, removepkg, makepkg, explodepkg, and upgradepkg that install, remove, build, examine, and. Actually, i saw the distrowatch announcement, and followed the link from there to the slackware announcement. Lets show you how to install java jdk in slackware 14. If you still need to install slackware at this point, why not directly go for 14. Susan linton slackware linux is the oldest surviving linux distribution, and still one of the most popular. Slackwarecurrent for both 32bit and 64bit architectures see slackware.
Synopsis the remote slackware host is missing a security update. All i would need is chrome version 39, a cli torrent client, vlc, a file manager and vim. Description new kernel packages are available for slackware 14. Latest slackware version doesnt cut newbies any slack.
The new stable release of slackware contains x11r7. To do this ive restructured the directory layout so that all isos are found under slackwareslackwareiso after advice from the slackware mirror admin. Slackware is one of those linux distros often described as being difficult to use. Both sides are bootable for easy installation, and includes everything from both releases of slackware 14. Included are the command line utilities installpkg, removepkg, makepkg, explodepkg, and upgradepkg that install, remove, build, examine, and upgrade software packages. One of the neatest things i discovered recently was how to set up my centos desktop so i could rdp into it from my windows desktop. Just recently, dugan shared how he optimized fonts for slackware 14. If you need more indepth support options, you should consider a thirdparty technical support company. If you have general slackware related questions or need help, this is a great place to join in discussions with a user community thats friendly and eager to help. This release was deferred so that work to release centos 7.
I am a long time slackware user, part of the slackware team, but i am not a slackware employee. Fish is a smart and userfriendly command line shell for macos, linux, and the rest of the family. Slackware arm does not distribute isos because the majority of the arm devices do not have cddvd drives attached, and even if they can be attached via a usb port for example, they cannot boot from them. Note that there is not any guarantee that you will be redirected to an s mirror. If you would like to use a different mirror, or want to see a complete list of all mirrors where you could download a file from, go to mirrors. I wrote an article for our new slackware documentation project, called upgrading slackware to a new release. My ktown repository of kde packages see alienkde repository see. Its kde desktop is probably the most contemporary trait. Patrick volkerding has announced the release of slackware linux 14. The information below is the result of my researches in the internet and of my experiences. Ready to use all tools for common daily computing usage already included. It will also remove any packages that used to be part of the slackware or salix repos in 14. I saw the announcement yesterday, for slackware 14. Solus previously known as evolve os is an independently developed operating system for the x8664 architecture based on the linux kernel and a choice of the homegrown budgie desktop environment, gnome, mate or kde plasma as the desktop environment.
Other than an update under the hood, the latest slackware release offers little thats new in terms of. Installing anything on slackware used to be a real drag, especially for new users. After all, you have probably bought the slackware 14. Forums linux forums linux distributions slackware slackware 14. This site runs our favorite slackware questions forum. Can you tell me why you would want to see torrents for slackware 14. Puppy linux is a unique family of linux distributions meant for the homeuser computers. Testdisk download apk, deb, eopkg, rpm, tgz, txz, xz. It will automatically select one of the known and active mirrors from a database and redirect the download.
Posting this from my thinkpad x220 running slackware 14. My own complete package repository and tools see peoplealien. I also read a report from alien bob about this new version and it looks promising as ever. Fish includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggestasyoutype, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required. The official release of slackware linux by patrick volkerding is an advanced linux operating system, designed with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities. The slackware documentation project gets a mention in the slackware 14 announcement as well, yay use the weekend to download the iso images our. After install, you need to select one and only one mirror to download packages from.
The distro itself, meanwhile, is actively working toward stabilizing current into the 14. Apr 04, 20 i have installed slackware linux version. Sep 28, 2012 i wrote an article for our new slackware documentation project, called upgrading slackware to a new release. Minimal slackware ive been thinking of setting up my asus x201e as a chromecast media device. Download testdisk packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware.
The best part is that i am saving bandwidth for myself and for the slackware mirrors i would otherwise be hammering with file transfers. Server and application monitor helps you discover application dependencies to help identify relationships between application servers. I will download x64 image and then ill try it out with. In linux, a mirror is a copy of programs available for download. The only difference to other distro is that slackware is installed in text mode. I decided that it would be a waste of download bandwidth if i created 32bit compatibility versions of slackware packages myself. Previously i was using vnc which takes a bit of work to set up and doesnt give you the full desktop view that rdp does.
Youll find scripts i wrote here, lots of slackware packages, their build scripts, and several articles i wrote for my wiki of course. Use a raspberry pi as a slackware mirror on your local. Before, font optimization techniques were originally created by infinality but support for slackware stops sometime after the slackware 14. Edit your etcslackpkgmirrors and uncomment one of those lines or include your own mirror. The slackware package maintenance system this package contains utilities for handling slackware packages. Slackware linux is a complete 32bit and 64bit multitasking unixlike system. It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menudriven package system. Now i can provision virtual machines among other various devices on my lan with slackware. I also read a report from alien bob about this new version and it looks promising as ever here is a screen shot of my slackware64 14. However after doing slpkg upgrade and trying to update my slackware packages from the official mirror slpkg c slack upgrade, it seems to fail download them. Fails to download updated packages from slackware repo. Mar 02, 2017 a mirror, in network computing terms, is a different source or copy of something.
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