XFS
Posted: 2016-01-14 Filed under: system | Tags: noatime, relatime, SSD, trim, XFS, xfs_db, xfs_fsr, xfs_repair 2 CommentsI am using XFS at the moment and I will put here a few filesystem related tools, for my own future use. The Arch Linux wiki has good documentation. Read the rest of this entry »
SlackOnly as a main third-party repository
Posted: 2015-11-02 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: dependencies, gslapt, multilib, package, SBo, slackbuilds, slackonly, slackpkg, slackpkg plus, slapt-get 7 CommentsI decided to try using SlackOnly as my primary source of third-party software. My system is Slackware64 -multilib and all settings below take this into account. I manage the official Slackware updates and AlienBob’s multilib layer with slackpkg, complemented by it’s extension slackpkg+. Read the rest of this entry »
SBo sources
Posted: 2015-11-01 Filed under: slackbuilds | Tags: SBo, slackbuilds, source, tarball Leave a commentThe SBo project does not host the sources of the packages that are built. It is an elegant approach to save space, but occasionally presents problems. Sometimes the source may get moved, renamed or (even worse) it may be an unversioned archive that just changes its MD5SUM. Read the rest of this entry »
Virtual machine settings
Posted: 2015-08-02 Filed under: system | Tags: cpu, slackbuilds, virtualbox, vm 1 CommentI keep clean installs of Slackware 32bit and 64bit in order to check how my SlackBuilds work. Currently, I use Oracle VM VirtualBox, installed on a Slackware64 14.1 -multilib system from the upstream provided binary (“All distributions”), AMD64 architecture (version 4.3.28). Read the rest of this entry »
Slackalaxy 