Dear slackers

What is your preferred tiling window manager on your Slackware box? I use KDE’s Plasma and Window Maker 0.96.x
but wanted to try out something new…

I've worked through 30 dependencies that I have to make with SlackBuilds, run into one that I can't build. Even if I figure it out, will it work eventually? I will just try to pair a receiver with a keyboard, nothing fancy. I no longer have Windoze anywhere.

Anyone here use Podman? If so, how did you get it working and installed right? I tried self building it and it works to an extent but everything just errors like podman info command just does FATA[0000] Cgroupsv1 not supported. Which tells me it's a kernel thing but i cant fix it. Anyone have any helpful suggestions or such that would be great!

UPGRADE TO THE NEW VERSION 2.6.8

It is just a simple gaming portal.

Deps: sbopkg for steam; wine; multilib

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

Salixtools is a collection of command line (ncurses) system tools for
Salix. They can be also used in any other Slackware derivative.
Salixtools is a collection of command line (ncurses) system tools for
Salix. They can be also used in any other Slackware derivative.
(https://github.com/gapan)
Upgrade: salixtools-suite-1.11-noarch-2.txz
Deps: sbopkg

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms/blob/main/salixtools-suite-1.11-noarch-2.txz

Slpkg is a feature-rich package manager for Slackware-based systems. It installs, upgrades, removes, and builds packages from multiple repositories, including SlackBuilds.org (SBo, Ponce) and binary repositories. Slpkg automatically resolves and tracks dependencies (https://dslackw.gitlab.io/slpkg/)

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

dep: sbopkg

Nixpkgs is a collection of over 140,000 software packages that can be installed with the Nix Smart Manager for Slackware 😳🤷🏼‍♂️. https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs https://github.com/nixos/nixpkgs

Dep: use install nix

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

Not disappointed so far. I did have to reinstall on my first setup attempt though because my pc shut off mid kernel upgrade.

I've just recently installed Slackware (15.0) for the first time and I have a question. What should I do if I want to rebuild some of the programs installed by system packages with different options? In case of a package from SlackBuilds this is more or less straightforward, but is there a .SlackBuild files for bult-in packages? Or should I myself figure out where is the upstream of the program and then build it from the upstream source tarball?

If you have the goal of being a slackware maintainer, what's a good starting point? Joining the irc and LQ and help out or build packages for the repo or fix slackbuilds? Just wondering because I'd love to work towards that. Slackware feels like home to me and I want to help it stay that way. If any package maintainers or Slackware maintainers out there on reddit can chime in too that would be great! I love this distro and now I want to help out and use my computer science skills to the best of my ability! Hope to hear from you all soon! Thank you! 🙂

I recently got Mango WM working fully and self complied the zen kernel for slackware. I also today got niri compiled with rust and now a working wm. Slackware really feels like home now with all this work ive done with it in these past few months!

Took a while but I was finally able to get MangoWM with waybar and such working. It is awesome how customizable Slackware is!

Why isn't a minimal Slackware installation—like those for Gentoo or Debian—recommended? Is it just because of dependencies? The full installation seems bloated, not to mention it consumes disk space with games and useless applications.

I've made it almost 3 whole months on slackware and I love it! It's my favorite distro and im as time opens up more for me im going to work on contributing if I can! Thank you all for getting me to use this distro and helping me when I got stuck!

I have a desktop with Intel Xeon 2680v4 on X99 motherboard. Actually is with the Windows 11, but I just get 8gb RAM, Win 11 consumes a lot, I want resolve it with linux. Is the Slackware compatible with Xeon hardware? Did you have problems with Xeon?

I have been using Slackware for a month, and I have turned this distro into my own, personal gaming/content creation/media distro.

I have done every tweak to get it performant, I have limine bootloader, secure boot, cachyos kernels (whichever flavor I want), cachyos nvidia drivers, my own pacman sidecar that installs everything in the arch/cachyos repos and makes them into non-interfering slackpackages, Hyprland with Noctalia shell and just about every game launcher you can think of.

It's extremely bleeding edge and performant. While still being the only distro I have ever used that I can control every little process on. It's truly amazing.

I have joined Slackwares Patreon, and I have started donating monthly, and I think it's quite obvious this is gonna be my home for the foreseeable future.

I hope the slackware community can find a place for a former Arch user like me :)

Hello everyone!

I finally managed to get Slackware running on a Mac with a T2 chip.

Thanks to the great work of the T2 Linux community at https://t2linux.org/, Linux can run on these Macs.
Unfortunately, Slackware is not one of the officially supported distributions, which means you have to patch and build the kernel yourself, as well as compile and configure the additional software and firmware required for proper T2 support.

For this project, I created a set of scripts and an automated build system that handles the entire process. The ISO builder automatically applies the required kernel patches, builds the kernel, compiles and installs fandaemon, and includes all the additional firmware needed for T2 hardware support.

It has been a long process with a lot of testing and debugging, but I’m very happy to have finally reached a finished and fully working version of the project.
A big thank you to the T2 Linux community for their excellent work and support!

GitHub link : https://github.com/Gambita73/slackware-t2-builder

Did I visit the related thread in Linuxquestions?? Yes, I did.

And I could NOT fix the damn thing....phew.

Context:

It is a new DELL XPS machine running Slackware 15 ....and everything works the way I wanted it to work....failing miserably on this thing....ALSAMIXER speaker volume can not be adjusted; that means it stays at static ZERO.

WHF!!

PS: The damn function works flawlessly in the other two, i.e., Gentoo and Debian

PPS: The Bluetooth earbud works FINE, without any hassle.

Are all german repos down? My internet works perfectly otherwise.

Given that Alpha 1 has just been announced, which version is recommended for a first-time installation: Current or Stable 15.0?

Wasn't expecting this when I ran updates today. Hail Bob.

So can I join the club here as a Slackel user? I've been trying the various distros without systemd and liked the old school flavor of Slackware but Slackel gave me the slapt-get package manager for dependency management. Seemed like a good compromise on Slackware since I've been accustomed to the Devuan package manager. Another deviation I made was in the boot manager -- I've been using Limine for everything.

Conky Calendar Extra: https://github.com/alexsson-xexpanderx/Conky-themes
Dashboard: https://github.com/alexsson-xexpanderx/conky-dashboard
Wallpaper: #131619
KDE theme: Sweet Mars
Icons: candy-icons

The dashboard is purely conky with interactive support.