All posts under Tag : Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:14
> uptime
23:46:42 up 147 days, 6:41, 0 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Slack2 - which hosts dkpw.co.uk - has been up without issue since the 2nd October 2005. That's stable! It would have been about 250 days but Sottish Power failed t...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=132
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Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:14
This wonderful site charts the rise in numbers of Linux users. It can also tell you the average up times of the different kernels.
My three currently used kernels are doing quite well.
Kernel 2.4.29 hosting this blog - 67 day average.
Kern...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=136
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:13
The LinuxQuestions Member's Choice Awards for 2005 have been announced. This poll is organised by Jeremy who founded and runs this most useful of all Linux help sites.
The key categories and results are:
Linux Distribution of the year: Ubuntu ...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=142
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:12
I spent a lazy Sunday afternoon fiddling with my hand-rolled 2.6.15.4 kernel on my ThinkPad.
There were two small matters which required my attention.
First was to make sure that when I logged in, the console text was not the jagged unaliased t...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=158
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:11
For the last few days I've been trying Debian. Debian is a Linux distribution that is famed for being strictly open source and for having the best package management system of all the main distributions. It is often used as a precursor system, with U...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=164
tags :
Debian
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Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:11
May I refer the Right Honourable and Honourable Members to this blog entry...
Well Slackware out-lasted Scottish Powerś feeble attempts to provide Edinburgh with a regular and stable electricity supply.
Where do I fucking live - Addis Abba or Ed...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=174
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:10
I spent most of today at Novell's Open Enterprise Summit, held at the Brewery near the Barbican.
These events are normally very interesting, as one is often given previews of the latest software releases from Novell and if lucky a copy of the soft...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=202
tags :
Linux
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Novell
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:09
While doing a web search on my favourite Linux distro Slackware, I came across a blog entry by a chap called Ed Hurst, who writes "Mission, Method and Means."
Ed doesn't like Slackware. He's convinced, rather paranoiacally, that Slackware is linke...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=215
tags :
Linux
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religion
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Slackware
Posted in : www.dkpw.co.uk Tue, Mar 11 2008, 12:08
Slackware is great – I know what I'm doing with it and it's all the things people say it is, fast, stable and secure. Depending on your point of view, there are some downsides. You can spend some time learning how manually to configure your computer ...
http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=221
tags :
Linux
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Slackware
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ThinkPad
