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ExTiX 18.8 with Deepin 15.5 Desktop, Refracta snapshot, Calamares 3.1.12 Installer and kernel 4.18.0-rc5-extix – Build 180807

Posted 08-07-2018 at 03:05 PM by exton (Exton's Blog)
Updated 08-08-2018 at 01:02 AM by exton

NEWS about ExTiX 18.8 Deepin 180807
I’ve released a new version of ExTiX 18.8 Deepin today with Calamares 3.1.12 and kernel 4.18.0-rc5-extix. Calamares is an installer framework. By design it is very customizable, in order to satisfy a wide variety of needs and use cases. All packages have been updated to the latest available version as of today. Study all installed packages in ExTiX Deepin Build 180807. ExTiX is based on Debian and Ubuntu 18.04.1.

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Persistent naming with multiple internal drives in Slackware

Posted 08-07-2018 at 02:52 PM by Lysander666
Updated 08-07-2019 at 03:23 AM by Lysander666 (spelling + added conclusion)
Tags fstab, lilo

Pre-amble – skip to avoid the lead-in:

I told myself I’d write a post when I eventually got this sorted out. I’m not a long-term Linux user, I started in Feb 2017 with Ubuntu, moving onto Debian in April 2017 and Slackware in January 2018. I had been intrigued by Slackware for years and wanted to run it for as long: it was a like a geek-goal, some sort of nerd ambition. But I also knew that the road to doing so would be hard, and I’d have a steep learning curve and a lot of research...
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The beauty of Perl

Posted 07-27-2018 at 06:13 PM by anestis89

It's been some time from my first post. I have almost finished "Learning Perl",
2nd edition from Randal Schwartz and Tom Christiansen, and I have to say I was
amazed by this language. Now, this edition is rather old (1999) because I borrowed
it from my local library, today it's in the 7th edition, but the language didn't
change very much. It is still Perl 5.

A few words about Perl: Perl is an old language. It was created in 1987 by Larry...
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Projects: Slackhammer, ZACL, testing Perl on Slackware-current

Posted 07-26-2018 at 08:01 PM by ttk (Unpopular Positions: One Geek's Take)

I try to stay focused on a small number of projects at a time, so that they get finished sooner, but I seem doomed to spread myself thin.

Slackhammer

Sometimes it's because someone gives me a nudge and gets me all excited. Earlier this week, Idlemoor pointed me at https://release-monitoring.org which tracks packages' upstream sources, which is one of the core functions of my Slackhammer project http://ciar.org/ttk/codecloset/slackhammer/

Work on Slackhammer...
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ExTiX 18.7 – “The Ultimate Linux System” – with LXQt 0.12.0, Refracta Tools, Calamares Installer and kernel 4.18.0-rc5-extix – Build 180723

Posted 07-23-2018 at 10:46 AM by exton (Exton's Blog)
Updated 07-25-2018 at 02:45 PM by exton (More INFO)

I have made a new version of ExTiX – The Ultimate Linux System. I call it ExTiX 18.7 LXQt Live DVD. (The previous version was 18.4 from 180419).

ABOUT
ExTiX 18.7 LXQt DVD 64 bit is based on Debian 9 Stretch and Ubuntu 18.04.1 Bionic Beaver. The original system includes the Desktop Environment Gnome. After removing Gnome I have installed LXQt 0.12.0. LXQt is the Qt port and the upcoming version of LXDE, the Lightweight Desktop Environment. It is the product of the merge between...
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