All posts under Tag : Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Tonight's Linux task was to install OpenSuSE 10.3 on the Beast, to give it a try and very much a second try at that.
Although SuSE Linux was one of the first distributions I used, I have since found it to be slow, sluggish and bloated when com...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=529
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Debian
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Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
I have been playing with my new workstation, and my new graphics card. I've also discovered Gslacky which is another Gnome desktop for Slackware, this one from Italy.
This comes provides us Slackware users with an up to date version of Gnome, all ...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=504
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Mon, Mar 17 2008, 10:22
Following my recent power cut which fried the hard drive in my bedroom PC, I thought I would share a live log of the steps needed to install Slackware 12 from scratch on a brand new hard drive, to get it to a point where I could use it as ful...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=422
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:19
The main two issues laptop users face with any form of Linux and Slackware in particular, is to make sure you make the most of your graphics and wireless network cards.
My T43p has the following wireless and graphics cards, which you can find typi...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=465
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:18
I love my newest purchase. A lovely 17" LCD monitor from those very nice people at HP.
This came at a very reasonable price from the lovely people at Misco but LATE - TWO WHOLE DAYS LATE. The couriers, Amtrack, said they had the incorrect address ...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=25
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:16
I was perusing the system logs on my Slackware server, the very one which contains this blog and my other web pages, when I spotted some alarming entries.
Some scrotes had been attempting to break into my web server!
Here's a list of the IP a...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=28
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:16
I'm pleased to announce that my Slackware box which is hosting this blog, my site and FTP server has reached an important milestone. It's been up now for, if I may purloin a cricketing term, a Nelson.
A Nelson is of course 111. In these terms not ...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=106
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:15
Since starting to learn Linux, I've shied away from compiling and configuring my own kernel.
There were two main reasons for this.
First, it seemed quite a scary thing to do. It's real easy to zap a working system.
Second, what was the benef...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=118
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:15
davidw@t41:~$ uname -a
Linux t41 2.6.15.4 #1 PREEMPT Sun Feb 26 13:39:34 GMT 2006 i686 unknown unknown GNU/Linux
davidw@t41:~$ free
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 1553728 277212 1276516 0...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=128
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
