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

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

From DistroWatch: "A great day for all fans of the oldest surviving Linux distribution - after an unusually long testing and debugging period, Slackware Linux 11.0 has been released: 'The first Slackware release more than a year in the maki... http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=249

I love my Slackware Linux, as regular readers of this blog will appreciate. So the fact that this month's issue of Linux Format reviewed Slackware 11, and gave it a thorough kicking and a poor rating of 5/10 - would lead most people who know me, to e... http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=258

As I reported earlier, my bedroom machine died. This is not strictly true as it still functioned but given that a couple of weeks ago, on one day, it caused errors on two different IDE hard drives, one of them being fatally flawed, it was time to bin... http://www.dkpw.co.uk/wp/?p=499

“The thinnest and lightest full-function notebook in its class” - the Lenovo ThinkPad X300 13.3-inch ultraportable - is now available for purchase.   “The ultra-thin ThinkPad X300 measures less than three-fourths of an inch at its thinnest p... http://www.khongdayviet.com/english/en...

Lenovo ThinkPad X61 ultraportable notebooks with the new 45-nanometer Intel Core 2 Duo processor, codenamed “Penryn“, will be available starting next month, according to an announcement from Lenovo.   The refreshed Thinkpad X61 12-inch lapto... http://blog.khongdayviet.com/english/e...