Here’s a good up-to-date installation guide which mentions the most common pitfalls: https://ratfactor.com/slackware/new-computer
Note that the author uses Slackware’s default elilo bootloader. I prefer installing grub, which will be the default in the next release.
change to default runlevel 4 in /etc/inittab, to boot into a graphical desktop
install and setup slackpkgplus, a plugin to Slackware’s package manager that lets you use additional repositories, especially the alienbob repo
install flatpak from that repo to make your life easier
But I can’t stress enough that if you’re just looking for a good, functional Linux distro, this isn’t the right one.
It’s a museum piece. You’ll face issues that other distro’s maintainers have solved or hidden away long ago.
It takes a special kind of curiosity and interest in the history of Linux to enjoy this as a new user.
And the only reward is an operating system so simple you’ll soon know every part of it inside and out, and which won’t change on you or do anything unexpected.
I guess I don’t have that problem. Just received ten 256 to 500gb sata ssd of various brands. They were going to recycle due to microsofts stance on windows 11 compatibility. Just reloaded 31 dell 7440/7450 AIO computers with zorin. Local library is going to give them out to kids.
Its not hard to accumulate a few extras right at this moment. There are so many computers being scrapped all you have to do is get involved recycling them for the needy. Those ten SSD are going back out. I’m wiping them with ShredOS right now to go out in computers for kids. We even receive some gen 8 or better intel computers that get replaced with all the older machines. The hard part is convincing companies and institutions to let us have them with memory and storage attached. We do a DOD wipe on them all.
Anybody got a good resource set for getting into slackware or should I just stick with going to freebsd
Here’s a good up-to-date installation guide which mentions the most common pitfalls:
https://ratfactor.com/slackware/new-computer
Note that the author uses Slackware’s default elilo bootloader. I prefer installing grub, which will be the default in the next release.
To install grub during installation:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/howto-install-grub-on-slackware-with-efi-4175727510-print/
Afterwards, you’ll probably want to:
But I can’t stress enough that if you’re just looking for a good, functional Linux distro, this isn’t the right one.
It’s a museum piece. You’ll face issues that other distro’s maintainers have solved or hidden away long ago.
It takes a special kind of curiosity and interest in the history of Linux to enjoy this as a new user.
And the only reward is an operating system so simple you’ll soon know every part of it inside and out, and which won’t change on you or do anything unexpected.
Why not both?
I only have so many drives :(
I guess I don’t have that problem. Just received ten 256 to 500gb sata ssd of various brands. They were going to recycle due to microsofts stance on windows 11 compatibility. Just reloaded 31 dell 7440/7450 AIO computers with zorin. Local library is going to give them out to kids.
I fart in your general direction, braggart.
Its not hard to accumulate a few extras right at this moment. There are so many computers being scrapped all you have to do is get involved recycling them for the needy. Those ten SSD are going back out. I’m wiping them with ShredOS right now to go out in computers for kids. We even receive some gen 8 or better intel computers that get replaced with all the older machines. The hard part is convincing companies and institutions to let us have them with memory and storage attached. We do a DOD wipe on them all.