only have 1 64bit server
runs my private and business web and mail
(started on slackware 7 32bit)

tried it about 2010 on laptop but the bw43 cutter things was a nightmare right in front of access point I couldnt get more than 3mbps off it, so re installed windows.

14.2 x86 edition on a 2009 Samsung N110 netbook. This was my first Slackware machine and I learned a lot about the distro on it. It is my secondary 'emergency' laptop for use in a zombie apocalypse, it sat in the cupboard for six years unused and didn't lose 1% of its battery capacity. It's now too slow for most tasks, but can be used for web browsing. It plays local videos well, but you can forget streaming them apart from at lower quality.

14.2 on my primary 'emergency machine' [with 'that' Chinese wallpaper], a Dell Latitude something-or-other from 2012. It's got quite a decent screen size and is fine for everyday tasks, though the trackpad doesn't work when it's charging [apparently a fault with the model]. Quake I looks pretty good on it, and plays well with the keyboard size.

Interesting to see other peoples' use-cases here.

Desktop: -current, with a 14.2 VM for testing build scripts. Work machine, going to 15.0.
Laptop: -current, will probably stay that way.
Girlfriend's laptop: -current, going to 15.0.

Not bad for a bunch of "nostalgic ex-Unix users, curious hobbyists and some 4chan and Reddit users who use it to look cool," eh?

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Touché.

You really made me laugh... Love it!

Only in VirtualBox VM on my office notebook at the moment. It is only used for VPN (as client) and some hobbyist dev stuff.

Probably will put it on my home desktop when 15.0 hits release (desktop, browsing, dev stuff and VM host).

title: Your slackware use cases



I'm assuming that you are referring to my post in that 'other thread' where I said I would be interested in seeing the use cases of users on this forum?
If that assumption is wrong please ignore this post!

If my assumption is correct please note I am not starting yet another flamewar, I just want to correct your assumption that I meant hardware list. I did not mean that.

I meant 'use cases' as in 'https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/use_case'

My objective was simply to see how people here are using their Slackware, so that ppl here can compare with each other how they use them.
what triggered my thought was that someone made a generality about a modern Linux system that did not jive with mine, yet I consider my systems modern Linux systems.

So to show what I meant, here goes with my main use cases:
I do a lot of CAD, 3D modelling work. The company I work for uses only Macs, but at home I use Slackware for CAD, design and modelling. So I use FreeCAD, Blender, Audacity. I also do a lot of documentation so I use Libreoffice suite.
I run a home network that serves photos, files, music and movies to my family. No one plays games using Linux so no use case there. I use Calibre a lot to manage my ebooks. I do programming on the side, I really like Eclipse but also use NEDIT a lot. I have an old printer that I use (rarely) via wine+printer driver (32 bit Slackware on on old laptop). Thanks to Alien Bob I use Handbrake and Vlc a lot as well (but I have to build them using his scripts). I use Vivaldi, Firefox, Thunderbird, Pan as well. I do all of this without Samba, consolkit, elogind, pam, network manager, pulseaudio. Not because these programs are bad but because I like reducing the number of processes on my systems that's all.

My point? Just that life is possible, and can be quite easy, without those programs AND it doesn't mean that one's Linux system is NOT modern. I think I can do anything others can do.

Well maybe anything that requires cgroups I cannot - but that is why I am interested in other ppls use cases to see maybe what I'm missing or can I do something better? I have a very traditional home network. Can I improve it by using cgroups? If yes then sure I'm interested in cgroups.

Hopefully I've made my point.

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You're right ! Didn't bother to link or quote from some laziness as I often read the forums from my phone, sorry.

I was a bit short in my post and didn't gave any direction. I meant that I use mostly slackware as multi-purpose OS on laptops and on (file/music/git/...) server.

Glad you could make your point here and I hope you'll get some interesting input as well.

Thanks

-main machine: i7 6700 + a bunch of disks + a bunch of partitions + a bunch of distros
-bi-xeon as a spare machine: (not as powerful as my main machine)
-HP Z420: raid 5
-laptop: acer NITRO 5
-laptop: 2x HP EliteBook
-old laptop AMD 1400
-old DELL laptop
-3 RPi3+ 1 RPi1
-old machine AMD 486
Mainly Slackware, Linux MINT for my daughter and son, some W10, Hackintosh, Manjaro, LFS, OpenSuse, Kali, Zenwalk...

I use Slackware in several ways:

1) One machine serves as my main desktop--I'm running Slackware64-current with everything installed
2) I have two Slackware VMs running on Proxmox machines. These are minimal install (67 or 68 packages on each) Slackware64-14.2 machines that do nothing but crunch for Mersenne primes 24x7 using the software provided by the Great Internet Mersenne Prime Search (GIMPS) group.
3) I have a Slackware64-14.2 VirtualBox VM (minimal install--66 packages) that runs dnsmasq to provide dhcp services for my network.
4) I have a machine running Slackware64-14.2 that is a headless server. It hosts the VM mentioned in (3) above as well as hosting an OPNsense VM serving as the firewall for my home network.
5) I have a Slackware64-14.2 full-installation VM (on a Proxmox host) that does nothing but serve as a machine I read email on. I wanted to have a separate machine for email to limit the damage and recovery time if I get a message with malware or other nastiness attached. I have friends who, despite my attempts to educate them, persist in sending items I consider to be "dangerous."
6) I have two headless machines running Slackware64-14.2 that are "data oriented." One serves as my main data repository (homemade NAS?) while the other basically does nothing but mirror the data on the main machine. The 2nd machine runs a ZFS Raid10 array.

I believe that covers all of the ways I currently use Slackware.
Lumpy

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I run Slackware for everything I can at home. Some of the use cases are:

I started with Slackware 15 years ago and have yet to be disappointed with its use cases.

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I run -current as my daily OS for about 10 years as general desktop / gaming use (since 13.1).
Also running 14.2 on a raspberry pi for some locally hosted network software.

Around 2009/2010 i had been dual booting FreeBSD and Slackware, but only until Valve released the Steam client for Linux in 2013, then i ended up running pure Slackware for the most part ever since.

My main use case for sticking with Slackware is that it's the nearest thing to FreeBSD / Unix like of all Linux distributions, and particularly not wanting to touch systemd with a bargepole. But also prefer the lack of dependency management, as for many headaches with debian based distros in the past.

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Yes.

Despite the opinions of some, Slackware is a modern Linux system capable of achieving the same results as any other distro (if not better results, because IME Slackware brings rock solid stability everywhere it is employed).

The difference is that Slackware does it without the cumbersome baggage[1] that the others carry.

[1] By that I mean the increasingly dense layers of complication which, it seems, provide little to no tangible benefit.

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Been using Slackware for close to 20 years on a wide number of machines, including laptops, desktops, and nettops. Most of my previous machines have been retired except for these 3.

Main system - Ryzen 7 1800x, Radeon X570, 64GB RAM, 1TB Samsung 960 EVO NVMe, 80TB HDD (via 9 HDDs, ranging from 4TB to 18TB)
Runs Slackware64 14.2 with 5.10.x kernel and slightly upgraded graphics stack with KDE4.
This is my everything machine. Other than normal uses like web browsing, playing media, editing documents, etc, it also acts as a media server (NFS, apache), web server (apache, nginx), file server (samba, sftp), torrents (transmission, nginx), local Slackware mirror (14.2 and -current, x86_64 only), compiling, transcoder (usually to x265), and probably more.

HTPC system - Ryzen 3 2200G, 16GB RAM, 500GB Samsung 970 EVO NVMe
Runs Slackware64 -current (from May 2019) and kodi-18.5 from a custom SlackBuild on top of KDE4.

Laptop - HP ENVY x360 - i7-7500U, 16GB RAM, Samsung 256GB NVMe
Windows 10/Slackware Live
Not currently used much. Kept it on Windows for ease of schooling (when I was pursuing my degree). Occasionally I'll start up a recent Slackware Live to check out -current is progressing.

Looking forward to 15.0 so I can upgrade all my systems (but I'm not looking forward to actually updating the systems... it takes so long and so many packages!).

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