Slackware

nepomuk, Microsoft plot?
Do we have any PI's or attorneys willing to look into the guys that put together this nepomuk problem? This needs to be investigated to see if Microsoft $$ is behind the inclusion of this in recent releases. This damages Linux as a whole. Saltbreez ... 11 May 2010 19:00

PHP with unixODBC support
Hello, and a good day to you all. I am having a heck of a time getting PHP with unixODBC enabled to work. I am trying to get this working on a Slack 12.1 & 13.0 box. I am trying to get these slack boxes to connect to a Pervasive SQL ODBC engine on a windows 2003 box. I have the Pervasse sql client for linux... 11 May 2010 15:37

Slackware 13.1 beta1
So we missed out on the Slackware Fun and Games this time. Today, Thursday May 6th has a changelog entry announcing a move to KDE 4.4.3 and that it will be called Slackware 13.1 with "A stable release should be just around the corner...". Nows the time to try to break it. At the beginning of June, 2001, I bo... 14 May 2010 10:34

kernel upgrade - touchpad unexpected behaviour
Hi, Today I upgraded the kernel in my slackware64-current from 32.5 to 33.3 and installed binary nvidia driver again. The problem is that the left touchpad button started working in the most unexpected way. It tends to close firefox tabs, sometimes (when clicked somewhere in firefox it redirects firefox to the ... 8 May 2010 19:59

Setting Slack 12.2 to UK ISO-8859-15 ?
#> locale -a ....gives me uk_GB and uk_GB.utf8 (amongst the other non-uk stuff) I'm currently set (lang.sh) to use uk_GB which gives me ISO-8895-1 I've tried a few tricks I found while searching, but nothing sane. How do I set things to ISO-8895-15? -- *=( http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/ *=( For al... 4 May 2010 11:10

HOW2 change root ?
No not chroot. I've got a hdd[A] which is set up to run: root = /hda2 & /usr = hda9 and another hdd[B] set to run root = hda6. Since they are both set-up to run as hdaX, I have to unplug to swap and boot the other. I'd like to just have a script which renames the few files which will allow me to run hdd[A] a... 4 May 2010 07:52

Managing flowcharts
Hello all. Some months ago under Slackware 12.2 I wrote +-30 complicated flowcharts which I *really* need at my job (btw. I openly confessed there my conviction that linux is much more reliable and efficient than windows) - and my choice was kivio in koffice. Now kivio does not seem to exist since some time, ... 4 May 2010 11:10

How does one update Flash under Slack?
On 2010-05-03, root <NoEMail(a)home.org> wrote: How do you Slack users that need access to these sites manage to update your Flash? Do a manual install of the proper file. Instead of using the intall program, go to Adobe flash website and look for a linux flash download. There are several pkgs, includin... 5 May 2010 16:00

Alt.OS.Linux.Slackware FAQ pointer
Posted-By: auto-faq 3.3.1 (Perl 5.010) Archive-name: aolsfaq Current-maintainer: aolsfaq-maintainer(a)therockgarden.ca FAQ last updated: Fri Dec 4 01:11:57 EST 2009 This is a periodic pointer to the Frequently-Asked Questions list (FAQ) for the alt.os.linux.slackware newsgroup. The FAQ which may be frequent... 3 May 2010 03:21

Configuration pppd under Slackware 13.0 (Play Online)
Acted in accordance with the instructions: [quote]Witam, [Quote] Hi, pewnosci nie mam ale jezeli producent nie udostepnil linuksowych I certainly do not but if the manufacturer has not released Linux sterow powinno byc to mozliwe za pomoca windowsowego drivera, do Control is possible you should be using: Windows... 3 May 2010 15:20