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r1w1s1📸 Screenshot from my daily driver: Slackware 15.0 (post-current)<br>🧊 IceWM + xterm + neofetch<br>🐧 Clean, fast, no systemd, just the way I like it.<br>🧠 1256 packages, no bloat, full control.<br>🪟 Trying out IceWM — might just leave TWM behind...😅<br><br>“Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.” — Dennis Ritchie<br><br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slackware</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Linux</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=icewm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#IceWM</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=x11" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#x11</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=terminal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#terminal</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=neofetch" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#neofetch</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=twm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twm</a><br>
Giancarlo Dessì<p>Iniziai a svincolarmi da Windows oltre 20 anni fa, agli inizi dell'era di Windows XP quando ancora usavo Windows 2000. Oltre a farmi le ossa con <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slackware</span></a>, negli anni successivi ho dovuto rivedere le mie conoscenze sulle piattaforme client/server per passare da IIS ad <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/Apache" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Apache</span></a>, da ASP a <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/PHP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PHP</span></a>, dal MS Access e SQL Server a <a href="https://mastodon.uno/tags/MySQL" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MySQL</span></a>.<br>15 anni fa tagliai definitivamente il cordone ombelicale. Oggi posso dire che ne è valsa la pena.</p>
r1w1s1ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 adopted. :)<br>i7-1185G7 / 40GB / 500G SSD / Iris Xe<br>Now running Slackware -current.<br>Compiling SlackBuilds. Running VMs.<br><br>% fortune<br>nvi: when you want <i>vi</i>, not an IDE.<br><br>twm + xterm + tmux + firefox<br>Because some of us never left the 80s — by choice.<br><br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slackware</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=unix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UNIX</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=thinkpad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThinkPad</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=oldschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#OldSchool</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=twm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#twm</a><br>
jloc0<p>Updated librewolf, cinny-desktop, legcord, and added liquidshell (for kde) and a few more packages today. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/arm64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>arm64</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/aarch64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>aarch64</span></a> <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/slackwareaarch64-current/ChangeLog.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64</span><span class="invisible">/slackwareaarch64-current/ChangeLog.txt</span></a></p>
jloc0<p>Watch out if you’re an x11 user as kwin-x11 is a new package standalone from the Wayland client. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a></p>
jloc0<p>Ok, I went ahead and just uploaded plasma 6.4 beta. A crash reporter is worthless on an unsupported machine anyway, so we’re going to assume drkonqi-6.3.5 partially works until I’m proven otherwise. Enable the repo, or wait for me to post a liveslak soon and read my blurb about what’s new here: <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/#kde6-unstable" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slackware.lngn.net/#kde6-unsta</span><span class="invisible">ble</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a></p>
TronNerd82<p>Internally debating whether I should pick up a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ThinkPad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ThinkPad</span></a> T43 and using it as my main <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/NetBSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NetBSD</span></a> machine. Currently I have an X260 running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slackware</span></a> and an X1 Carbon 6th gen running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/CRUX" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>CRUX</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Debian" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Debian</span></a> but I don't have a machine I can dedicate solely to NetBSD. I also got my Raspberry Pi 4 running <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/SlackwareARM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SlackwareARM</span></a>. I've always just had to run NetBSD in a VM, but I don't wish to anymore. Is it a worthwhile endeavor?</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FOSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FOSS</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/BSD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BSD</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/OpenSource" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OpenSource</span></a></p>
jloc0<p>With the latest kdenlive rebuild I’ve pushed (# 3), I’d recommend to reinstall the <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> “Imath” package after updating, as it was found kdenlive was overwriting the pkgconfig during install. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">slackware.lngn.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
jloc0<p>I uploaded new liveslak ISOs for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nwgshell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nwgshell</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> today. The nwg still needs some trimming work but it’s getting slimmer at 2.2gb. The kde6 is the big boy at 4.5gb, I plan to slim that one down soon eventually as well. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://rekt.lngn.net/liveslak/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">rekt.lngn.net/liveslak/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
jloc0<p>Posted <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> Frameworks 6.14.0 a little bit earlier today on my repos waiting for your updating procedures! <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">slackware.lngn.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Devin Prater :blind:<p>So, I'm about to try Slint! Thanks to <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://caneandable.social/@JessDail" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>JessDail</span></a></span> for reminding me about it. Except this time I'm going to try it in a VM because I do not want a repeat of the Fedora incident from a week ago. Ugh.</p><p><a href="https://slint.fr/en/home.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">slint.fr/en/home.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/accessibility" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>accessibility</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/slint" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slint</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>linux</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> <a href="https://tweesecake.social/tags/blind" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blind</span></a></p>
Stu :slackware:<p>Is there a package for <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.vivaldi.net/@Vivaldi" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Vivaldi</span></a></span> on <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Slackware</span></a>? </p><p><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/vivaldi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vivaldi</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/browser" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>browser</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/askfedi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askfedi</span></a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/askmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>askmastodon</span></a></p>
jloc0<p>Plasma 6.3.5 is now available on <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackwareaarch64" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackwareaarch64</span></a> wee hashtags! <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">slackware.lngn.net/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
r1w1s1Dreaming of getting my hands on a Lenovo ThinkPad X201 tablet someday! Imagine the possibilities with a clean install of Slackware. That legendary keyboard and robust build would be perfect for a lightweight and customizable Linux experience. Anyone in Brazil 🇧🇷 know where to find these gems? Let's make it happen! 🤩<br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=thinkpad" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#ThinkPad</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=lenovo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Lenovo</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Slackware</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=linuxdreams" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#LinuxDreams</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=retrotech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RetroTech</a><br>
jloc0<p>Pushed some poppler rebuilds to <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/kde6" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>kde6</span></a>, updated qterminal for <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/lxqt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lxqt</span></a> and <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/nwgshell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nwgshell</span></a> nwg-look-1.0.5. <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackaroni" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackaroni</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/x86_64/slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">slackware.lngn.net/pub/x86_64/</span><span class="invisible">slackware64-current/ChangeLog.txt</span></a></p>
r1w1s1<a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=fzf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#fzf</a> 0.62.0 released! New alt-bg for striped rows, multiline --color, and better Fish CTRL-R.<br>Release: <a href="https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/v0.62.0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/v0.62.0</a><br><br>I’ve updated my personal SlackBuild too:<br><a href="https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/fzf" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/slackbuilds/tree/main/item/fzf</a><br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slackware</a><br>
Mark<p>This week's Gang of Four (the distro's/spins I use) will be Slackware KDE by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/@jloc0" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>jloc0</span></a></span> , Idefix (my immutable Fedora with hyprland nwg-shell by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@nwgpiotr" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>nwgpiotr</span></a></span> ), NixBook by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@codemonkeymike" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>codemonkeymike</span></a></span> and Gentoo dwm, inspired by <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@dobbie003" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>dobbie003</span></a></span> . I like to use spins and take inspiration from fellow FOSS'ers. It makes for great experiences and conversation. You can't go wrong.</p><p><a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/gentoo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentoo</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/nwgshell" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nwgshell</span></a> <a href="https://social.linux.pizza/tags/nixos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nixos</span></a></p>
Matt Egger<p>After weeks of little maintenance needed for my <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/SBo" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SBo</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackbuilds" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackbuilds</span></a>, suddenly had four releases this week 😅:<br>- <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dracut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dracut</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/dracut" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>dracut</span></a>-ng 107<br>- <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/keychain" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>keychain</span></a> 2.9.0 &amp; 2.91.1, first releases in 7 years, <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/danielrobbins" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>danielrobbins</span></a> back<br>- <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/mbuffer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mbuffer</span></a> 20250429<br>- <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/openzfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openzfs</span></a> 2.3.2</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slackware</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.sdf.org/tags/zfs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>zfs</span></a></p>
r1w1s1Curl was added to Slackware in version 8.1, released in 2002.<br>Date: Tue Feb 26 13:21:13 PST 2002<br>Package: n/curl-7.9.4-i386-1.tgz<br>ChangeLog reference: <a href="https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-8.1/ChangeLog.txt" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-8.1/ChangeLog.txt</a><br><br><a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=slackware" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#slackware</a> <a href="https://snac.bsd.cafe?t=curl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#curl</a><br>