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Slackware and Debian - an objective-as-possible comparison for new (and older) users

Posted 12-27-2019 at 06:35 AM by Lysander666
Updated 12-27-2019 at 06:58 AM by Lysander666

Introduction:

Seeing as I recently moved my main desktop machine from Slackware 14.2 to Debian 10, I think now would be a good time to make a post with some comparisons between these two leviathanic operating systems while I have some free time. Both of them are giants in the Linux world and they are both nearly as old as each other. I also have a reasonable amount of experience with both OSs, so I am coming from something of an informed position.

I tried to slim this...

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Slackware, Unix, PLASMA and Nethack: A discussion-based retrospective of the 1980s to the 2010s - Pt II

Posted 10-13-2019 at 01:08 PM by Lysander666
Updated 10-14-2019 at 06:05 PM by Lysander666

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Earlier this month I conducted a discussion with a close companion and programmer who I will call M. M has been programming since the 1980s and has been using a host of different languages and operating systems since. Going from CP/M and Unix-based systems at work and home in the 1980s to Slackware in the 1990s and the 2000s, this discussion maps out his experiences and opinions on the world of free and proprietary software, parts of which will hopefully be of some interest. He is not, as far as...

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Slackware, Unix, PLASMA and Nethack: A discussion-based retrospective of the 1980s to the 2010s - Pt I

Posted 10-13-2019 at 12:58 PM by Lysander666
Updated 10-13-2019 at 01:48 PM by Lysander666

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Slackware and the Cthulhu Mythos

Posted 12-19-2018 at 11:44 AM by Lysander666
Updated 02-14-2019 at 06:52 AM by Lysander666

Yog-Sothoth knows the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of old, and where They shall break through again. He knows where They have trod earth's fields, and where They still tread them, and why no one can behold Them as They tread.

In an earlier thread I gave a jocular proposal for all Slackware releases to be named after entities in the Cthulhu...

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Kernel upgrade instructions for Slackware

Posted 12-02-2018 at 09:51 AM by Lysander666
Updated 08-27-2019 at 06:09 AM by Lysander666

v.0.2

N.B. This blog post is a work in progress. All readers are invited to suggest improvements if needs be.

This post is something I've been meaning to do for a while, it's a simplified instruction set on kernel upgrades for Slackware stable and current branch.

I should, first and foremost, point out that this post is a supplement to the instructions over at Slackdocs and assumes you will have read the relevant documentation on kernel upgrades. ...

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