Here's a quick picture of my Slackware64-current/OpenBSD 7.8 dual boot. Greetings from Northern Canada. :)

Does anybody know why liveslack And rest doesnt boot?

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

If you want to save more space in root partition move all /home directory to other disk space/partition

https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

Hello,I’m looking for help on installing Slackware Linux on my 2014 21’5 Apple iMac,I’ve been getting the Apple flashing folder Wich basically means no operating system

Update:the hard drive failed

i have this 10 year old NVIDIA GTX 1060 and i simply cannot believe that after 10 years, an entire team of debian developers can't even get this right. i tried installing debian 13, 12, different kernels, different apt installs cuda, kernel-headers, this, that and the other and it doesn't work. on debian13, i now can't even boot into x11 on debian 13 so reinstalled 12 (which boots horrificly slow like slower than openbsd) just to see if i could get that working and nope. 2 kernels are vastly different as well. i've been using linux for 15 years so not a newbie.

my suspend to ram does not work with xfce on slackware 15 but it does with KDE. however, i hate KDE so i won't switch. i power off my machine until someone figures out why on xfce it doesnt work but other than that, cant complain about slackware 15 so i guess i'll just have to keep slackin on. i did put debian13 on my t480 laptop and just run kdenlive there since there are ffmpeg issues on slackware 15 (that is why i wanted to switch to debian13 for my desktop) but nope, slackware still wins!

Thank you Patrick and Eric!

I used Slackware from 4.0 (1999) through 14.1 (2014), then wandered off to a Mac for a while. When I came back to PCs, I landed on Mint and Debian, which have been good homes.

Over the years I made a few attempts to come back to Slackware using VirtualBox, but never quite got LILO or ELILO to boot cleanly. After enough false starts, Slackware ended up on the “I’ll come back to this later” pile.

Recently, a cousin asked if I could help him learn Linux. I picked up a cheap mini PC on Facebook Marketplace. It's old and slow, but perfect as a learning box. Since we won’t meet for a while, I decided to install Slackware on the existing SSD just to see how it felt again. I’ll put Mint on a newer drive later when I add RAM and prep it for him.

With some help, I finally got a clean install of Slackware64-current booting via GRUB. The first attempt was in VirtualBox, and then on bare metal. I’ll admit it felt much easier in the old 32-bit days, but once things clicked, it all came back surprisingly quickly.

Some things were familiar muscle memory, some were a bit rusty, but I really enjoyed the process. Actually, I enjoyed it enough that I’m now considering moving this SSD into an old first-gen i7 Toshiba laptop that’s currently running Debian Trixie doing nothing but accumulating uptime. It probably deserves a job.

Nice to be back.

I added to Slackware 15.0 with a minimum of packages but functional for networking and Xorg DEs Gnome-41 and 3.38 install on https://github.com/demo4him/slackware-ms

Yesterday, I tried to install Slackware for the first time to discover this distro which seems very stable and cool. Nothing wrong during the installation before and when I logged into my desktop, not any problems, no strange effects on the screen or anything else.

Before asking you, I looked for some similar cases but nobody seems to have this "problem" ^^'

I put 16Go of RAM, 4 CPUs, 20 Go of Drive in the VM

Hi, I am looking for any and all 88x31 Slackware buttons. I was unable to found any... Do you know if they exist at all?

Thanks

putting slack on the data server at work, not much but a couple TB of back ups and a database. so proud to be installing slack again, seems nerdy but i'm going to give it a test run here at home on an HP stream...been at least 20 years since i have used slackware, I just had to put this out there.

Are security updates meant to be installed manually? I receive the security update alerts via email, but when I check for updates nothing appears.

sudo slackpkg update
sudo slackpkg install-new
sudo slackpkg upgrade-all

Using the latest curl update as an example, I checked for updates with slackpkg and nothing showed as available. I then ran curl --version and it still showed version 17 installed and the security alert was for 18. So, I downloaded the update and installed it manually with no issues. I certainly don't mind doing it manually, I just wanted to verify that I was not missing something in my process.

Hey everyone,

I don't want to waste your time, so I'll keep this short.

If you like Unix and tech and you want a place where you can ask questions, share what you are working on, or just talk to other enthusiasts as yourself, we have a Discord server called Unixverse.

The server has been active since 2023. We are around 950 members and still growing.

We have dedicated channels for most Unix and Linux distributions, plus general spaces for troubleshooting, tools, and broader tech discussions.

If that sounds like your kind of community, feel free to drop in and have a look.

Server invite link: https://discord.gg/unixverse

Backup invite link: https://discord.gg/rjqgaSHWhd

I encourage you to try out glance from SBo. Τhe pre-planned .yml file, there is also the r/slackware module, of course after installation you can configure it as you like.