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Archive for May, 2009

May 30th, 2009 by Niels Horn in |

Just a quick note…
xpdf has been updated for Slack/390.This is a security patch, so update your -current system with SlackPkg without further ado!
In the mean time: I've been playing around with ARMedslack. I'm just waiting for an opportunity to test it on real hardware, but for the moment I'm running it on the [...]

May 27th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , ,

As I've been using Linux for over a decade, I am asked a lot of questions about my favorite operating system. I don't consider myself an expert, just an experienced enthusiast
One question that pops up every now and then is about the "ideal" partitioning scheme for Linux.The short answer is that there is [...]

May 2nd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

As promised in my previous post, some instructions to use SlackPkg in Slack/390 to keep your installation up-to-date.
After almost two years without activiry, the maintainers have released some patches / upgrades for Slack/390 - both the -stable and the -current versions.Since I use SlackPkg on my other Slackware installations (12.1, 12.2 & -current), I wanted [...]

May 1st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

For those who have been following my posts on installing Slack/390 on Hercules:There has been a security update this week - see the ChangeLog
I recently managed to patch a current version of SlackPkg to work on Slack/390 (the version included in /extra does not work).I'll try to organize my notes during the following days and [...]