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October 11th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , ,

Finally got X working on my Slackware 3.5 installation.Well, not perfectly, but good enough to capture a screen:

I had to configure X by editing XF86Config that's stored in /etc in this version.After some tweaking I got it to work with the basic "generic vga" driver, with a resolution of 640×480. It should work with higher [...]

October 10th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , |

Last week I found the original Slackware 3.5 CDs that I have. I have several older versions of Slackware in my collection, most of them original CDs.I started using Slackware in 1996, when I bought a book called "Slackware Linux Unleashed" from Sams. It included Slackware 96, which is also known as Slackware 3.1
Since I [...]

October 5th, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , |

Just a quick hint for those having trouble using the 'generic' kernel (as we should always use) when installing Slackware as a guest with VMware.
VMware creates SCSI drives by default when we create a new virtual machine for Linux with a 2.6 kernel, emulating a LSI Logic SCSI controller. The 'huge' kernel that comes with [...]

September 28th, 2008 by Niels Horn in ,

I am a big fan of VMware and virtualization in general.At work we use the professional version to install servers that are only used a couple of hours a week, like systems for testing new releases of software etc.At home I use the free vmware-server-1.0.7 version to test new releases of software, different operating systems, [...]