What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

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Re: What are you actually running for daily/primary usage?

Unread post by bones » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:21 pm

^ I haven't actually ever set up multilib in Slackware, as there is nothing I use that requires it (don't use Skype and whatnot). I understand it's best to follow Alien Bob's (Eric Hameleers) tutorial:

http://www.slackware.com/~alien/multilib/

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http://docs.slackware.com/slackware:multilib
http://multilibpkg.sourceforge.net/documentation.html

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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Thu Feb 26, 2015 6:39 pm

^ I might give Slack a reinstall and play around with that a bit. Sounds fun :) IIRC, there were plans for a Slack-based BBQ release. I don't know if I will wait for that, or if I will directly jump into a Slackware install.
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:12 pm

Jump. :)

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Unread post by tenkainen » Thu Feb 26, 2015 7:15 pm

bones wrote:
tenkainen wrote:Though lately I've developed a taste for Slackware, or Salix. But as far as I can see, Conkeror is going to be a pain in the nether region...
This might help, although I haven't tried it yet, myself:

https://github.com/jollheef/main/blob/m ... SlackBuild
Thanks, I'll look into it.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:39 pm

Dr_Chroot wrote:^ I might give Slack a reinstall and play around with that a bit. Sounds fun :) IIRC, there were plans for a Slack-based BBQ release. I don't know if I will wait for that, or if I will directly jump into a Slackware install.
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Unread post by machinebacon » Sat Feb 28, 2015 7:42 pm

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Unread post by Dr_Chroot » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:15 pm

^ :facepalm: I now faintly remember seeing this. Thanks, mb! :D I will probably toss it on when I have some extra time... for now I am spending my "play time" working with my bar config to get mpd piping through it how I want it with a Bitcoin ticker and perhaps a USD-EUR currency ticker too (?) Fun stuff :)
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Unread post by hinto » Sat Feb 28, 2015 8:49 pm

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Unread post by vic » Sun Mar 01, 2015 1:10 pm

A bit off topic really, what I have installed and boot up once in while to du and "feel up" :)

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Unread post by bones » Tue Mar 03, 2015 8:20 pm

I have a basic Funtoo installation up and running, spent most of yesterday watching xorg-x11 compiling, putzed around some earlier this morning x-less with tmux.

And I have to say, although the process has certainly been educational and interesting, I just can't see any clear advantage to doing this over my usual custom (binary) Slackware installation. Or even your basic Debian netinstall, for that matter.

Kinda fun, but I'm thinking it's not really worth it, at the end of the day. Long live Slackware.

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Unread post by PhiloPolyMath » Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:17 am

I've switched to Slackware completely now, both on my laptop that has had it for a while and my desktop not long after the new year. I had been considering moving from sid to slack on the desktop for a while but what pushed me over was getting some boot errors. Could not figure out where they were coming from after a week of researching and chats on irc and then someone suggested that slackware has very simple and sane boot scripts and I said screw it. I really don't understand why people think this distro is difficult. I mean I've learned a lot, but I have pretty much the exact same setup as before and I *am* a gamer that runs steam and therefore 32 bit libs. Performance has been great, and the computer is predictable.

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Unread post by bones » Wed Mar 04, 2015 5:21 am

^ I don't get the "difficult" thing with Slackware, either. I find it very simple and easy to understand. Would love to see a scrot of your setup, PPM.

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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Wed Mar 04, 2015 7:04 pm

I find Slackware easier than Arch, really.

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Unread post by PhiloPolyMath » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:06 pm

Here's some scrots for you. At least in XFCE. That's my full blown go to if I'm doing a mix of work, gaming, etc. (It really sucks when I'm gaming and I accidentally hit a key combination for my launcher or the like if I'm in i3). As I said, if I'm really just focusing on work, then it's i3. I also play around with qtile. So I have a 16:9 for gaming in front of me, and a 5:4 to my right which is easier for reading documents. It seems that when I use pentadactyl on firefox, the list of websites it is suggesting from my history extend below the 16:9 screen.
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Unread post by PhiloPolyMath » Wed Mar 04, 2015 10:08 pm

And I just found a typo thanks to posting this. The BBQ wins again.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:02 pm

Nice looking shots, I know I hate it when my gaft density is severely limited :}
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Unread post by bones » Wed Mar 04, 2015 11:25 pm

Nice shots, PhiloPolyMath. And a TeX user, very cool.

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Unread post by PhiloPolyMath » Thu Mar 05, 2015 4:50 am

Yeah, if people thought this guy was going to try and write a couple hundred page dissertation with Word they are crazy. I can't even imagine trying to format that beast correctly. Between latex with bibtex and libreoffice with zotero I can write anything and cite it with ease, all using free and open source software. Great thing is the university has a latex template that I can use that has all the correct formatting already set. All I have to do is throw the words, images, and citations together. Although, I probably need to stop the all nighter writing sessions since I've found another typo! Oh well, that's what editing is for.

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Unread post by wuxmedia » Thu Mar 05, 2015 7:53 am

I suppose isopropanol homopolymers not in a lot of spell checkers.
BTW: isopropanol -> carisoprodol in my spell checker, WTF is that, some drug?
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Unread post by ivanovnegro » Thu Mar 05, 2015 5:01 pm

PhiloPolyMath wrote:Great thing is the university has a latex template that I can use that has all the correct formatting already set. All I have to do is throw the words, images, and citations together.
Now that is incredible.

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