Browser Independence.
Migrating my bookmark collection out of the #firefox sync-service and into #emacs #orgmode using #syncthing and #orgzlyrevived .
I provide a tinytiny #elisp function to help out.
#slackware gets a cameo in a footnote.
https://www.kindness.city/blog/2026-01-25-browser-independence.html
In all excitement et all I tend to forget how solid nwg-shell on Sway actually is. All frills if you want them, it just works. Foot as terminal is making a strong comeback also. Slackware Tilers has been my main home for 40 days now. Ain't leaving anytime soon.
#slackware #nwg_shell #sway
If you want to hack on the RPi5 support for Slackware AArch64, see if you can help get the hardware stood up -- see the post here:
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?p=6612335#post6612335
I may be biased, but I think Slackware deserves a place with the "normal" distros like it's younger sibling SUSE and cousin Debian. Sure, stuff like LVM, LUKS, and installing packages not included with base can be a bit daunting, but putting it with Arch and the like I think is unfair... #Slackware
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:kxiw2gqz3lukh3llbfwbrjbz/post/3md56p3o5xc2f
Initial boot testing mainline Linux 6.18 LTS on the Raspberry Pi 5, attempting to bring up the Slackware AArch64 installer.
@thesaigoneer π€¦ββοΈ forgot my fasffetch/config.json π
It shows some Qt stuff.
Playing around with #Wayland, it seems pretty cool. I'm still trying to unlearn some of the #X11-isms, but I managed to get real-time clock and battery updates here on #dwl.
It especially helped that I patched dwl to use IPC.
Also, obligatory #Slackware #Linux fastfetch.
Only problem I've encountered is that j4-dmenu-desktop and Discord no longer launch where they used to. I'll need to sort that out, but the Discord web client and manually executing Flatpak apps works too.
Really liking those config options on Noctalia.
When you have your Mango fresh and up and running on Slackware. And you get bored with DankMaterialShell? There's always Noctalia coming to the rescue π
Another fine production by @jloc0 on Slackware Current!
#slackware #mangowc
@jloc0 As said before: it's been a great ride, thanks for all your efforts! And enough wonderful x86 geekiness remaining to enjoy, such as nwg-shell, sway, niri, mangowc, dank material shell, noctalia, ghostty to name just a few π
#slackware
Universe is another word for Cosmos, hence Universix as the name for the bootc Cosmic image I've cooked today. And it worked out very well. More on that tomorrow. Back home an updated MangoWC on Slackware waited for me! Great diversions from a shiite day at the races.
#cosmic_de #slackware
I put online my poorly hacked/patched/commented slackbuilds for obs-studio 32.0.4 along with source tarballs required and built packages for aarch64/x86_64 #slackware -current.
It all builds and works for me, if anyone wants to test OBS and doesn't want to deal with flatpak, give credit to all the folks who wrote these slackbuilds I shamelessly stole and bent to my will.
https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/testing/obs-studio/ (there's like 850mb of data contained therein)
@dobbie003 @jloc0 @thesaigoneer
For my #mpd frontend this is is about it! _Almost_ pure qml except for the visualizer which is a nasty, but sane enough hack.
I'll probably code my own with Qt c++ , fft and cairo (at least I'm good with one of those π
).
Not much chop with python either but seems like a good choice for the backend, especially since there will be more front facing stuff like playlists, album list, whole collection lists etc.
Meanwhile... in a safe (for a regular everyday normal motherfucker) place... #Slackware Linux running on encrypted #ZFS. At last...
Routine stuff ..... :)
Routine stuff ..... :)
If I ever managed to find a #DECstation 3100 from 1989, what'd be the overall likelihood that I could get modern #Linux of some kind running on what was at one point the world's fastest MIPS-powered #Unix workstation (for all of a few months iirc)? Because I think brute-forcing some sort of #Slackware installation would go great in place of #Ultrix or alongside it.
I know #NetBSD supports the device, so I imagine Linux support exists for this specific machine too, right?
