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I want to make a hotspot for my iot with a raspberry pi, I hope there is support for that as a start. Although using it for a file server is also attractive.
I run an Slackware ARM as my daily driver. I have some raspberry pi's that run Slackware well. Soon, someday, the official ARM64 port of Slackware will be available for your 64 bit Pi's. You may wish to wait for ARM64 to start your project. Currently, the Raspberry Pi is supported by the community and is available in 32 bit form.
I'm really curious. What uses do you give this distribution? Desktop, Server, Laptop? for ARM? Personal projects? Developers?
missing an important recent usage, contributing to accessing digital ressources beyond a phone to locked-down families, ageing adults who don't do computers :
-filling forms & taxes, connecting to school portals, accessing social services or bank accounts when the person is able to
-beside more incomprehensible bureaucracy little is properly done to help people accessing digital services in this country, not everyone owns a computer w/ a usable OS, in-person access still matters greatly
-there are clearly visible devastating effects of lock-down policies, yet to be acknowledged by some govs (ccp, france, italie, austria).
when it comes to computer access with a working reliable operating system, Slackware addresses it.
carrying on giving away, not enough, laptops with Slackware on it.
ie. mild Alzheimer relatives trust turning on their Slackware computer without a fault for years.
I use Slackware for everything -- Reasons: Sane, Stable, KISS, Unix Like, Stays out of my way, makes life easy by providing tools that are there when I want them, and has a generally friendly and pragmatic community.
I've been using it for a long time, and I have never felt like I'm starting all over again and having to re-learn things I already know how to do. The time and effort I've put into learning how to use it has never been wasted.
This is really interesting, do you have a repo to look into? I would really like to see the core of this running project.
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Originally Posted by rkelsen
At the office, I use it as a Samba server to share files with Windows users. It also runs our OpenVPN server. A 3rd machine exists purely to run a cron job to take backups. That machine also exports the backups via NFS. There is also a 4th machine which does nothing else than serve phone books to the office phones. (in case you're wondering, these are all virtual machines running on the same hardware).
At home I have a spare machine which connects to the office VPN and mounts the NFS share from the office and takes a redundant backup of the office backup.
Edit: Also forgot that I use it as a file & media server at home.
I too use Slackware for everything, since 1996 -- desktops, laptops, servers, personal projects and development (I am a software engineer).
From about 2000 to 2003 and from 2003 to 2008 I used Slackware as the basis of two small companies' infrastructure -- web servers, database servers, mail server -- and would do it again in a heartbeat. Slackware is a great fit for mission-critical business roles.
Slackware is not like the fancy automobiles with antilock brakes, and cruise-control with automatic following distance, and lane control, and automatic parking. Slackware is more like a car with a manual transmission, and the operator does the braking and parking and lane control and so on.
That is why I like Slackware. You are in control and it's logically put together.
LOL - ever try and work on the newer cars with so much crud that it's almost impossible to work on?
LOL - ever try and work on the newer cars with so much crud that it's almost impossible to work on?
I enjoyed working on cars as a teen in the 70s. You need to be a certified computer tech to work on cars these days. That's why I love Slackware and the BSDs; the inner workings are easier to understand.
Been using Slackware on and off since 1990-something. It's partially from inertia anymore, but every time I poke my head out and look at another distribution, that other distribution finds some new way of getting in my way. Slackware doesn't. This has been remarkably consistent over time.
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