Slackware

KDE/ODE (was: Re: Silly Computer Users)
On Jan 30, 8:59 am, Thomas Overgaard <tho...(a)post2.tele.dk> wrote: [some idiot troll whose posts I killfile] wrote : Ummm...., you don't have to click on any icons in kde to launch firefox. Just press F2, type in firefox (or whatever alias you created) and press enter. Start the "Menu Editor"... 1 Feb 2008 20:20

Slackware 12.0 on 64 MB
Hi all I just tried my luck on an old P-II, 233 MHz, 64 MB laptop. Booting huge.s I could finish the installation. But I can't start the installation. It gives no file system could mount root, tried: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(8,2) Am I correct in assuming t... 2 Feb 2008 08:00

Re. How2 use aps in other 'installations' with chroot ?
> > OTOH, when we 'upgrade' we often loose good-old aps. Tom N wrote:- Don't every 'upgrade'. Just install new apps and new libs, one at a time, if they are worth it. Yes. But from where I am now, I have different apps on different instalations/partitions, which I want to run -- ALL. I've had part... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

acidrip on the 12.0 ?
Acidrip worked good on the 10.2, but on the 12.0 it's a problem. On linupackages the tgz for the 12.0 is absent. on slacky.eu there is but doesn't work the result of the compilation of the tarball doesn't work the same. From shell appears the frame of acidrip but it's blocked, nothing from dvd or from hd, only ... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

VMWare: Slackware 9.0 as a guest OS install problem
Mark Hill wrote: On 2003-06-23, philo <philo(a)plazaearth.com> wrote: i gave vmware a try on an amd-1200 with 512 megs of ram (in my case i installed win98 as guest on a linux machine) the guest OS took such a hit in performance it was just about unusable by all means...dual boot! A... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

Slackware attends KDE 4.0 Release event
Richard James wrote: Patrick Volkerding was there Big deal. Both Sasquatch AND Xena will be attending the forthcoming ODE 1.0 release event. With kind regards Chu ... 1 Feb 2008 04:06

[news] Slackware attends KDE 4.0 Release event
The event was held in Mountain View, California Details in this blog http://troy-at-kde.livejournal.com/14690.html Patrick Volkerding was there Richard James ... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

Tux meets Amiga [in The Slack World]
Dear fellow Slackers, Are you on old school Amiga user who gave up that most brilliant of operating systems? Even in case you aren't, we believe you will enjoy reading "Tux meets Amiga, or Amiga emulation using UAE or E-UAE" by Tom Newsom. The article is available here: http://slackworld.berlios.de/2008/... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

ODE -- Helpful Script
ODE The Other Desktop Environment For those of you who refuse to be harnessed by artificial user- interfaces like KDE, here's a helpful little script that allows you to keep a watch on traffic through your Internet interface. It's written for eth0, but that can easily be changed to ppp0 or whatever. The ... 1 Feb 2008 00:42

Silly Computer Users
Ummm...., you don't have to click on any icons in kde to launch firefox. Just press F2, type in firefox (or whatever alias you created) and press enter. ... 1 Feb 2008 00:42