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. Installing anything on slackware used to be a real drag, especially for new users. Use a raspberry pi as a slackware mirror on your local. Note that there is not any guarantee that you will be redirected to an s mirror. Synopsis the remote slackware host is missing a security update.
I am a long time slackware user, part of the slackware team, but i am not a slackware employee. 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. Fails to download updated packages from slackware repo. 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. Other than an update under the hood, the latest slackware release offers little thats new in terms of.
Debiancentos backport patches to packages so that the configs dont change during a release. 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. 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. 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. I also read a report from alien bob about this new version and it looks promising as ever. Some people were asking us to make small tutorial about how to install slackware. Does anyone think that moving from arch to slackware is worth it.
Quite happy with what ive had from slackware for the past couple of years and i have subscribed. Fish is a smart and userfriendly command line shell for macos, linux, and the rest of the family. In linux, a mirror is a copy of programs available for download. Actually, i saw the distrowatch announcement, and followed the link from there to the slackware announcement. 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. If you still need to install slackware at this point, why not directly go for 14. The slackware package maintenance system this package contains utilities for handling slackware packages. Included are the command line utilities installpkg, removepkg, makepkg, explodepkg, and upgradepkg that install, remove, build, examine, and. Latest slackware version doesnt cut newbies any slack. I will download x64 image and then ill try it out with.
See the official documentation for technical details on how this works. To do this ive restructured the directory layout so that all isos are found under slackwareslackwareiso after advice from the slackware mirror admin. Testdisk download apk, deb, eopkg, rpm, tgz, txz, xz. Forums linux forums linux distributions slackware slackware 14. Ready to use all tools for common daily computing usage already included.
The new stable release of slackware contains x11r7. Mar 02, 2017 a mirror, in network computing terms, is a different source or copy of something. Minimal slackware ive been thinking of setting up my asus x201e as a chromecast media device. Both sides are bootable for easy installation, and includes everything from both releases of slackware 14. I wrote an article for our new slackware documentation project, called upgrading slackware to a new release. This release was deferred so that work to release centos 7. Lets show you how to install java jdk in slackware 14. My own complete package repository and tools see peoplealien. This site runs our favorite slackware questions forum.
Download testdisk packages for alpine, alt linux, arch linux, centos, debian, fedora, freebsd, kaos, mageia, netbsd, openmandriva, opensuse, pclinuxos, slackware. All i would need is chrome version 39, a cli torrent client, vlc, a file manager and vim. Server and application monitor helps you discover application dependencies to help identify relationships between application servers. It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menudriven package system.
Sep 28, 2012 i wrote an article for our new slackware documentation project, called upgrading slackware to a new release. 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. It will also remove any packages that used to be part of the slackware or salix repos in 14. The best part is that i am saving bandwidth for myself and for the slackware mirrors i would otherwise be hammering with file transfers. 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. Apr 04, 20 i have installed slackware linux version. If you are close in networking terms, maybe or maybe not geographically to one of the mirror sit. My ktown repository of kde packages see alienkde repository see. Nov 09, 20 long waited new version of slackware 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. I saw the announcement yesterday, for slackware 14. Description new kernel packages are available for slackware 14.
The only difference to other distro is that slackware is installed in text mode. Ease of use grandpafriendly certified relatively small size 300 mb or less. Its kde desktop is probably the most contemporary trait. The distro itself, meanwhile, is actively working toward stabilizing current into the 14. Installing software overview there are three basic ways to install software in slackware. Fish includes features like syntax highlighting, autosuggestasyoutype, and fancy tab completions that just work, with no configuration required. After install, you need to select one and only one mirror to download packages from. 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. The slackware documentation project gets a mention in the slackware 14 announcement as well, yay use the weekend to download the iso images our. Youll find scripts i wrote here, lots of slackware packages, their build scripts, and several articles i wrote for my wiki of course. Included are the command line utilities installpkg, removepkg, makepkg, explodepkg, and upgradepkg that install, remove, build, examine, and upgrade software packages. 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. Ive never personally had this problem, but ive heard of people who cant get 14.
I provide several mirrors on this server thanks to donations from several people who allow me to keep paying the rent. Patrick volkerding has announced the release of slackware linux 14. I decided that it would be a waste of download bandwidth if i created 32bit compatibility versions of slackware packages myself. Edit your etcslackpkgmirrors and uncomment one of those lines or include your own mirror. Can you tell me why you would want to see torrents for slackware 14. The information below is the result of my researches in the internet and of my experiences. Slackware is one of those linux distros often described as being difficult to use. Puppy linux is a unique family of linux distributions meant for the homeuser computers. After all, you have probably bought the slackware 14. Now i can provision virtual machines among other various devices on my lan with slackware. 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. 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. Stan ragets blog install chrome on slackware linux 14.
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