March 14, 2022

Episode 2:19: Cut Us Some Slack

1 hour 51 minutes

0:00 Cold Open

1:44 Framing It Up

8:52 Slackware Preamble

12:59 History of Slackware's History

17:21 Slackware's History

1:13:25 Thoughts on Slackware

1:39:37 App Focus: lsd

1:45:46 Next Time

1:49:58 Stinger

Coming up in this episode

Leo picked up a frame

Slackware. All the Slackware

How we blew up our Slackware

And we spruce up the terminal

Banter

The Framwork Laptop

Slackware Linux

Leadership: Patrick J. Volkerding

Site: slackware.com

Base System: Slackware

Desktop Environment: XFCE, Plasma, etc., etc.

File Manager: DE defaults

Package Manager: slackpkg, pkgtool

Kernel: 5.15.19

Display Manager: *lightdm, sddm, +, + *

Display Protocol: X11 and Wayland

Init System: rc init (BSD style) with SysVinit compatibility

Fast Links

SlackDocs

SlackBuilds

LinuxQuestions - Slackware Forum Section

The Packages

Live Slackware thanks to Alien BOB

Slackware for ARM

About Page

History

WikiPedia Page

Release History

Various ChangeLog, README, CHANGES_AND_HINTS and ANNOUNCE files on the mirrors

July 16th, 1993, Slackware was available via Anonymous FTP.

Softlanding Linux System

Slackware 2.0 Released

Slackware 3.0

Here is a picture of a CD sleeve (in Italian) signed by Patrick for Slackware 96 aka Slackware 3.1

The weird version jump to 7.0

Slashdot interview with Patrick

userlocal.com/phorum

interview with The Age in Australia

Slackware 9.0

Slackware 10.0

Eric Hameleers' (Alien BOB) Slackbuilds begins

Slackware 11.0

Slackware 12.0

Slackware 13.0

Eric Hameleers interview with Linux Magazine

Alien BOB's presentation at T-Dose

The video to go with it

Slackware 14.0

Slackware 14.1

Slackware 14.2

Slackware for ARM

Slackware 15.0 is released

Good nuggets in the changelog

Some other links

Eric Hameleers - Alien BOB's page

Patrick Volkerding's page

Slackware Documentary made in 2019

Slackware Patreon page

Configuring SBo for current

A helpful blog post for SBo

Housekeeping

Slackware ARM Podcast

Email us - [email protected]

Linux User Space Discord Server

Our Matrix room

Support us at Patreon

Join us on Telegram

Watch us on YouTube

Our latest social platform reddit

Check out our website https://linuxuserspace.show

App Focus

lsd

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Next Time

With us trying out Slackware Linux for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.

Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

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March 14, 2022

Episode 2:19: Cut Us Some Slack

1 hour 51 minutes

0:00 Cold Open

1:44 Framing It Up

8:52 Slackware Preamble

12:59 History of Slackware's History

17:21 Slackware's History

1:13:25 Thoughts on Slackware

1:39:37 App Focus: lsd

1:45:46 Next Time

1:49:58 Stinger

Coming up in this episode

Leo picked up a frame

Slackware. All the Slackware

How we blew up our Slackware

And we spruce up the terminal

Banter

The Framwork Laptop

Slackware Linux

Leadership: Patrick J. Volkerding

Site: slackware.com

Base System: Slackware

Desktop Environment: XFCE, Plasma, etc., etc.

File Manager: DE defaults

Package Manager: slackpkg, pkgtool

Kernel: 5.15.19

Display Manager: *lightdm, sddm, +, + *

Display Protocol: X11 and Wayland

Init System: rc init (BSD style) with SysVinit compatibility

Fast Links

SlackDocs

SlackBuilds

LinuxQuestions - Slackware Forum Section

The Packages

Live Slackware thanks to Alien BOB

Slackware for ARM

About Page

History

WikiPedia Page

Release History

Various ChangeLog, README, CHANGES_AND_HINTS and ANNOUNCE files on the mirrors

July 16th, 1993, Slackware was available via Anonymous FTP.

Softlanding Linux System

Slackware 2.0 Released

Slackware 3.0

Here is a picture of a CD sleeve (in Italian) signed by Patrick for Slackware 96 aka Slackware 3.1

The weird version jump to 7.0

Slashdot interview with Patrick

userlocal.com/phorum

interview with The Age in Australia

Slackware 9.0

Slackware 10.0

Eric Hameleers' (Alien BOB) Slackbuilds begins

Slackware 11.0

Slackware 12.0

Slackware 13.0

Eric Hameleers interview with Linux Magazine

Alien BOB's presentation at T-Dose

The video to go with it

Slackware 14.0

Slackware 14.1

Slackware 14.2

Slackware for ARM

Slackware 15.0 is released

Good nuggets in the changelog

Some other links

Eric Hameleers - Alien BOB's page

Patrick Volkerding's page

Slackware Documentary made in 2019

Slackware Patreon page

Configuring SBo for current

A helpful blog post for SBo

Housekeeping

Slackware ARM Podcast

Email us - [email protected]

Linux User Space Discord Server

Our Matrix room

Support us at Patreon

Join us on Telegram

Watch us on YouTube

Our latest social platform reddit

Check out our website https://linuxuserspace.show

App Focus

lsd

This episode's app:

lsd

Note Nerd Fonts are helpful

Next Time

With us trying out Slackware Linux for this past month, that means our next show will be topic based. We have a few topics planned for you and all of them will affect you in the Linux User Space.

Join us in two weeks when we return to the Linux User Space

Stay tuned on Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Discord, Reddit whatever. Join the conversation. Talk to us, and give us more ideas.

We would like to acknowledge our top patrons. Thank you for your support!

Contributor

Nicholas

CubicleNate

LiNuXsys666

Jill and Steve

WalrusZ

sleepyeyesvince

Paul

Curtis