3 week project – part 4

So I’ve been using Slackware for about a week now… As I approach the end of week two I have to admit that I’m not all that satisfied with progress on this experiment.
Slackware is definately faster than Ubuntu was. Though the same could be said for Fedora 10. I now know that to make the [...]

3 week project – part 3

Well shortly after my last post I realised that there may infact be a pre-compiled binary for VirtualBox on the sun site… there is… and it works just fine! That’s that one in the bag…
Last night I updated my whole system to Slackware-current, which I’ve not tried before. It was a very smooth [...]

3 week project – part 2

I spent some of yesterday tweaking, setting up a nice desktop using Fluxbox, choosing a file manager etc., but my major task was to get virtual machines on the go and this proved to be a lot harder than I thought it would be. It turns out that at the moment there’s a bug that [...]

3 week project

I have set myself the challenge of making my laptop work better. I’m off of work for 3 weeks and so that is my time limit… I figured that if it’s not completely usable in 3 weeks time then I’ll just put Fedora 10 back on it and wait for things to improve over time.
I [...]

Slackware 12.1

I kinda neglected to mention on here that I’ve been using Slackware 12.1 recently. Actually…since it was released. At first my intention was to install it on a separate partition from Archlinux and dual boot; I even considered leaving one of them as a “free” distro and the other with “non-free” packages installed but the [...]

Screenshot

I’m in the process of writing some longer posts about the stuff I’ve been playing with lately so for now you’re getting another old screenshot to keep you entertained. This shot is from November 2006, it is of KDE with a dark blue theme. The style and window decorations are called “Domino”. In the bottom [...]

First impressions of Arch Linux…

…are positive!
I’m reminded a lot of Slackware by Arch Linux. This is probably down to two simple facts:
1) They share the Keep It Simple Stupid (KISS) philosophy in terms of package configuration… this means that things are shipped without dumb patches and customisations which could potentially cause problems.
2) Configuration, or at least that which [...]