CRUX: a tiny gem of a distro
Posted: 2022-12-20 Filed under: misc | Tags: 3.7, CRUX, pkg-get, pkgadd, pkgmk, pkgrm, pkgutils, prt-get, review, yapo 6 CommentsCRUX (https://crux.nu/) is a slim, highly-customisable Linux distribution, designed with simplicity in mind. It usually stays out of the spotlights and scores below 100 in DistroWatch’s popularity rating (not that this means much). Nevertheless, the project is over 20 years old, mature, and provides a clean, transparent and elegantly laid out system. This review aims to cover some of its concepts.
Viber won’t start
Posted: 2022-12-08 Filed under: misc | Tags: keyboard, layout, phonetic, viber, xkb Leave a commentRecently, I upgraded Viber (for Linux desktop) to version 18.2.0.2. However, it simply would not start, although dependencies were satisfied. Therefore, I searched for a fix.
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EFI and Grub
Posted: 2022-11-30 Filed under: system | Tags: efi, ELILO, grub, UEFI 2 CommentsI’ve been tinkering with a Lenovo ThinkCentre M80Q. I disabled secure boot and since there is no legacy mode in the BIOS, I decided that it’s time to install Slackware with EFI. However, after the install was done, ELILO failed to boot the OS. So, I decided to use Grub.
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GitHub direct download links
Posted: 2022-10-31 Filed under: misc, network | Tags: direct, downloads, git, github, link Leave a commentAs a maintainer at SlackBuilds.org, I would like to have a handy place to store some “problematic” sources and some other files. Once upon a time, I used SourceForge, but I wanted to have it at Slackalaxy’s GitHub repo. Uploading tarballs is fine, however what should be the download link to put in, for example, a *.info file?
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A chroot installation environment
Posted: 2022-09-10 Filed under: system | Tags: chroot, vm 5 CommentsI have been having annoying problems with VirtualBox, summed up already at LQ, so I won’t go through them again. I need a clean installation of Slackware (x86_64 and x86), therefor, I decided to learn how to set it up in a chroot environment.
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