on troubles installing Slackware 14.0, 64-bit, and skipping lilo installation

Ciao, in the last days I have installed Slackware 14.0, 64-bit, on a new notebook running Microsoft Windows 8. AFAICT I now have a UEFI dual-booting notebook with Windows and Slackware. Before booting from "usbboot.img" ...

Message posted on the May 25th, 2013 - 9:48 AM ET

PlayOnLinux - PlayOnMac: use Windows programs under Linux / MacOS

PlayOnLinux and PlayOnMac are two free programs which allow you to fully benefit from Wine, even if you don’t have a solid technical background. These two applications, relatively simple to use, will allow you to install or run any program ...

Review published on the April 6th, 2011 - 6:10 PM ET

Comparison of free picture/photo editing software

We can’t say it enough: it isn’t necessary to invest in commercial software to successfully edit your photos! In this article we will look at free programs and trial versions which respond to the basic needs of novice, and in some cases, even ...

Review published on the November 17th, 2009 - 9:19 AM ET

VirtualBox - Virtualisation made easy for everyone

To run one or more operating systems without upsetting your current one, the most accessible solution is virtualization. No need to partition your drive, no changes to your current configuration, and no particular knowledge is required with ...

Review published on the August 27th, 2009 - 9:48 PM ET

Presentation on the openSuSE distribution

In this article dedicated to openSUSE we will be firstly presenting SuSE Linux and then the different functions that are offered by openSuSE.

Review published on the January 8th, 2007 - 6:00 PM ET

How to partition your disk for Linux

Partitioning your hard disk is the hardest and most crucial step in the installation of a Linux operating system. Linux is of course a lot easier to install now then it once was, but the creation of partitions is inevitable and requires some basic ...

Review published on the June 20th, 2005 - 6:00 PM ET

Arch Linux vs. Slackware

So, I'm not going to be debating Arch versus Slackware here, because I think that Slackware clearly wins. :-) However, I do want to express my frustration (minor though it is) at seeing some people struggle with getting their Arch installations to ...

Message posted on the November 9th, 2012 - 3:04 AM ET

Slackware 14 + others distribution

Hello all, I have installed win7 , slackware 14 , mint 13, ubuntu 12.10 in this order ( before win7, after slackware, ecc..) The problem is when I do the boot , lilo ( from slackware) , see only win7 and slackware and not the other partitions. So ...

Message posted on the February 27th, 2013 - 11:00 AM ET

Setting up Cyrus SASL on Slackware 13.0 (32bit)

Hi, everyone Now that my Konqueror/NFS problem is cleared up, I'm tackling some more long-delayed server configuration changes. This time, the challenge is to set up Cyrus SASL for imap (Slackware's Alpine IMAPD) and smtp (Slackware's Sendmail) ...

Message posted on the January 14th, 2012 - 2:53 PM ET

slackware.com dead again!?

Hi, According to: http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=slackware.com - "Site name or availability problem for slackware.com We could not get any results for your selected site. There can be a several reasons for this: The host name you ...

Message posted on the April 19th, 2012 - 3:35 AM ET

Slackware 12.2 -> 13

I've hit a snag while upgrading my Slackware 12.2 box to 13. I found a good description of the upgrade at http://infectedtech.org/index.php//upgrading_from_Slackware_12_to_13 and managed to follow it all the way to the penultimate step: slackpkg ...

Message posted on the February 11th, 2012 - 2:42 AM ET

Slackware 14.0

Hi there, From Changelog.txt: " Wed Sep 26 01:10:42 UTC 2012 Slackware 14.0 x86 stable is released! We're perfectionists here at Slackware, so this release has been a long time a-brewing. But we think you'll agree that it was worth the wait. ...

Message posted on the September 28th, 2012 - 6:33 PM ET

Slackware slopware: USB port disconnects and is crippled until reboot - no problems with Windows 7

"I use slackware 14 64bit with stock kernel. Sometimes I got problems with using my external usb 3.0 2TB drive (ext4, LUKS-encrypted). After copying few GB from my drive it gets disconnected. When this happens I can't connect anything else to ...

Message posted on the March 25th, 2013 - 9:31 AM ET

Rearranging applications on Slackware

I suggest that the thoroughly obsolete Tetex distribution be removed from Slackware. I use TeX regularly in my publishing business but I use the TeXlive distribution of that suite which is updated annually. No serious user of TeX will settle for ...

Message posted on the May 7th, 2013 - 9:54 AM ET