Touchpad tap

Posted: 2022-02-27 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: laptop, synaptics, tap, touchpad | Leave a comment

My ThinkPad x230 is running CRUX, with packages installed from my own custom repository. Things seem to work just fine, however, the touchpad did not behave nicely out-of-the-box, as was the case with Slackware. Tapping did not work, I had to press instead.
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Deal with missing *.la files on CRUX

Posted: 2021-12-24 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, la, prt-cache, prt-get | Leave a comment

Many programs started removing *.la files in the recent years. I will not discuss about them, but from what I have understood it is an obsolete system. This leads to problems, when a program would no longer build since it expects to find *.la files that are no longer there.
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Use local time

Posted: 2021-10-02 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: hwclock, localtime, utc | Leave a comment

I dual-boot Linux and Windows. I want to make Linux use the local time from the BIOS, because this is what Windows uses. I searched around and all I found were tutorials for systemd. This is useless for CRUX so I resorted to reading the manual…

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Own ports and packages repos for CRUX

Posted: 2021-09-01 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: apache, CRUX, pkg-get, prt-get, repo | 1 Comment

I’ve been using CRUX as my main system for couple of months now. My PC has an nice CPU and lots of RAM, so compiling stuff on it is not a problem. This is not the case with my old ThinkPad x230, though… So, I want to turn the packages created on my PC, into a packages repository for the laptop, running the same distro.
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CRUX post-install cheatsheet

Posted: 2021-08-05 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: system | Tags: adduser, CRUX, pkgmk, ports, prt-get, useradd | Leave a comment

The crux.nu website actually provides all the information you need in order to have your CRUX installation up and running. Especially useful reads are the handbook, the wiki and the prt-get manual together with prt-utils list for package management.

Here, I am going to outline a few steps to do immediately after install for my future reference.
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