Slackware

Puppy Linux
How do you create an account in Puppy 4.3.10. Why don't it have a home directory? Root all the time? ... 14 Dec 2009 14:19

Successor to apsfilter.
When I changed to Slack 13 I first installed Cups. However several programs I use regularly, including Kmail, did not communicate properly with Cups. So a went back to lprng. This caused a further problem. I have two printers, both parallel port type, that work through an A/B switch. The Ricoh printer, a Postsc... 26 Nov 2009 21:57

texlive.slackbuild
Hello, I am happy to see a texlive slackbuild but is it setting also for Slackware 12.1 ? I hesitate on this: /sbin/makepkg -p -l y -c n $OUTPUT/texlive-$VERSION-$ARCH-$BUILD$TAG.${PKGTYPE:-tgz} especially about ${PKGTYPE:-tgz}, is my makepkg version recognize this ? -- Marie-Claude Collilieux Bretagne... 20 Nov 2009 10:03

Microsoft at it's best!
http://www.pixelbeat.org/ms_mirth/ -- Leon A computer without Microsoft is like a chocolate cake without mustard. < running Linux > ... 14 Nov 2009 08:55

Softmaker Office 2008
Hi all, Has anyone got Softmaker Office 2008? Any opinions on it? How does it compare to OO? From they website I gathered that it's supposed to be fully compatible with MS office documents. What are your views? kindest regards Martin ... 14 Nov 2009 08:55

Wine and Slack 13
Is Wine still the preferred way to run Windows programs in Slackware? I had it up years ago but never got much past Solitaire. Is there a better program today? John Culleton ... 20 Nov 2009 14:33

CHKrootkit
Hi all, I'm on Slackware 13. Here's what the CHKrootkit scan indicates: "WARNING: Hard link count is wrong for `/proc' (saw only st_nlink=112 but we already saw 110 subdirectories): this may be a bug in your file system driver. Automatically turning on find's -noleaf option. Earlier results may have fail... 9 Nov 2009 05:32

[HOWTO] VMWare Player 3.0 / Tools / Slackware 13.0 guest
Hi, I just installed the latest VMWare Player 3.0 on Slackware 12.2. No particular problems. It has now gained a UI which is somehat similar to VirtualBox. Installed a Slackware 13.0 guest, and after some work also installed the VMWare Tools to support mouse copy & paste and window resizing. VMWare don't automa... 6 Nov 2009 04:50

Canadian Presence requirements for .CA domains (Was: Justlinux.ca)
On November 5, 2009 14:32, in alt.os.linux.slackware, Keith Keller (kkeller-usenet(a)wombat.san-francisco.ca.us) wrote: I tried finding this information, but could not find an explicit rule: are you required to be a Canada resident in order to register a .ca domain? The only thing I found is a blurb on their "... 5 Nov 2009 17:51

raid
I am trying to fill in some of the gaps in my knowledge. I want to learn the ins and outs of RAID setup with mdadm. I started with a simple test: a 20G raid 1 (mirror) on separate sata disks and partitions. I partitioned the physical devices in advance with fdisk: root(a)atom-330:~# fdisk /dev/sda -l Disk /dev/s... 4 Nov 2009 20:50