Slackalaxy is on hold

Dear All,

I won’t be updating Slackalaxy for the foreseeable future. I thank my small audience for the interest expressed in my blog through the years. I will keep my WordPress plan and my domain, though.

best regards,

Petar


Twelve years for Slackalaxy

It has been 12 years… This is post 279.

A lot has changed, a lot has not.
This cakeday, I just forgot.


Eleven years for Slackalaxy

It has been 11 years… With this one, my humble blog makes total of 263 posts.


CRUX ports added to portdb

My collection of CRUX ports has been just added to the portdb section at CRUX’s web-site, as ppetrov. I also maintain Xfce 4.12 for CRUX 3.7, but decided that it will not be of much interest, so it’s not there. Anyway, both repos are available at GitHub.


CRUX: a tiny gem of a distro

CRUX (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.

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