I’ve had trouble with Slackware 12 and the $0 Laptop (Gateway Solo 1450). Something happens when services load that prevent it from running. I’ll have to take a much closer look, but I’m ready to try Slackware 11 just to see if that makes a difference.
I see in the Slackware security page that patches are [...]
Filed under: $0 Laptop, Slackware | 1 Comment »
After not being in love with Debian Etch under KDE, I wanted to boot into Slackware to see if it was just me.
It’s not just me.
Since I never ran Debian with KDE before (nor had I run Slackware 12 in GNOME, with such an install being way beyond my capability at this time), I was [...]
Filed under: Debian, GNOME, KDE, Linux, Slackware | 3 Comments »
I’m a sucker for a Linux or BSD distro with a live CD. Even if you can’t do an install directly from the disc, at least you can figure out whether the damn thing will boot and how your hardware will react when it does.
One of my favorites, ZenWalk, just released Zenwalk 4.8 Live. [...]
Filed under: Damn Small Linux, Linux, Puppy Linux, Slackware, Ubuntu, Vector, Zenwalk | 3 Comments »
I know … Debian Etch is old news, but I wasn’t about to let my first Debian KDE install go quietly into the night:
I thought it was time to add KDE to my Debian Etch install. So I went to Debian’s KDE maintainer page and found the easy instructions. What they didn’t tell me [...]
Filed under: Debian, KDE, Slackware | 1 Comment »
