Tech Hustler’s Slackware 13.37 Linux 3.0 Custom Kernel
by admin on Oct.08, 2012, under Linux
This is my custom Slackware 13.37 Linux system. It runs Linux kernel 3.0, XAMPP, named, Fluxbox, some custom features allowing it to sleep/hibernate/lock, and much more. I have been using Linux and UNIX for over a decade and do this for a living. Slackware is, to this day, the best Linux distribution in existence, second to the original Softlanding Distribution and Yggdrasil Linux of the early 90′s. Everything that came after with the exception of Debian and Redhat was garbage. Slackware is for the true hacker.
October 8th, 2012 on 8:52 am
What are the laptop specs?
October 8th, 2012 on 9:15 am
Slackware and BSD are definitely the way to go bro, the best of linux and BSD. I always like to roll up some good grass and do some dual coding. Peace.
October 8th, 2012 on 9:52 am
funny. your comments almost mirror my experience. i went from slackware to centos to FreeBSD. since ~2010 FBSD and Arch are my reliable workhorses. BTW, oracle and redhat already collaborate. i would like to be more positive but, this just looks like a variation on their corporate linux support.
October 8th, 2012 on 10:47 am
Sorry I meant “Oracle Linux”.
October 8th, 2012 on 10:47 am
@techhustler, wouldn’t recommend 1watt/2watt for the alfa wireless. The cards in it dont support that high txpower. You will mess them up. 20dbm should be enough or as high as your card can tolerate.
October 8th, 2012 on 11:36 am
I actually think Slackware is great for Developers and Workstations rather then Server. Especially low level developers Slackware is great. Its a great Computer Science OS. The biggest problem I guess is its lack of Documents I would personally go with Red Hat for servers or Solaris at this time though.
October 8th, 2012 on 12:01 pm
Arch does have excellent docs. As for the sys v it appears that Slackware is a Sys V init but it has a BSD init Hack around to emulate a FreeBSD like atmosphere. Ever tried Solaris Linux? I’m thinking of trying that one out as well. So far CentOS seems the most stable of the ones I have yet tried. Ubuntu has the most repos. And Slackware is the most “Flexible”. I love how slackware stays concentrated on terminals and low levels which is why it is the fastest of the 3 imo.
October 8th, 2012 on 12:41 pm
it is booting so slow lol
October 8th, 2012 on 1:05 pm
oh. thanks for pointing that out. didn’t know about sysV stuff. got the idea that sysV was all in the past. that’ll teach me to read the docs!
Bleeding edge rolling rel. allows testing by exploit-aware geniuses testing their secure servers. i think pacman provides a clean, conflict-free way to install apps with funny deps so, rolling release never becomes an issue. must read docs! aaargh! (head explodes).
October 8th, 2012 on 1:29 pm
Thanks, I did a lil research to find arch having a rolling release cycle. I find this approach very unlogical for stability standpoint. I will check out Lubuntu. My favorite current distros are CentOS, Ubuntu and Slackware. As far as BSD style configs Slack has both Sys V and BSD working together. Doesnt that make life more confusing?
October 8th, 2012 on 1:41 pm
Slackware is amazing
October 8th, 2012 on 2:12 pm
Slackware is number number 18 on Distrowatch for a reason. New Distros like Mageia2 and SolusOS beat it! Is unlikely it will ever get as high as Mint, or Puppy and stay there. I’ve heard the excuses like we do not want to be number 1 we are not for newbies and all. The truth is Slackware does NOT have what it takes to EVER be number 1. It’s not that good and thus many Distros are Debian or Ubuntu base. Slackware should get out of the OS race and stick to only be a server.
October 8th, 2012 on 2:47 pm
Slackware’s BSD-style configs are heaven but, it needed more goodies, documentation, community stuff like the BSDs. Well, the Arch community did all that and Arch has supplanted Slack as the lo-cal / academic distro. If Arch adopted BSD-style configs:
a. I would multiple orgasm.
b. one year later, the last remaining slack-server would be upgraded to arch and slack would be officially dead.
For any netbook, experience says, use Lubuntu. Don’t be fooled by the name. They’re independent.
October 8th, 2012 on 3:39 pm
i really like slackware however i am unsure of its future… What do you think of Arch? Nice setup btw. How can you compare FreeBSD to Slackware. I never installed it since i dont know if it will support my hardware i got an acer aspire d270 netbook.
October 8th, 2012 on 4:11 pm
2GHz CPU and 2GB RAM and fluxbox ?
October 8th, 2012 on 4:37 pm
Because, “I use a passwordless root on this system”.
October 8th, 2012 on 4:39 pm
Seriously sudo su?, why don’t you just su?
October 8th, 2012 on 5:12 pm
I am running FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE on an i7 with 16GB of RAM, 1TB of 7200 SATA 3, and 240GB of SSD SATA 3.. That laptop really sucked.
October 8th, 2012 on 5:54 pm
hi, i really like this video, i have a question:
did you find any problems with any program (i.e virtualbox, apache, rythmbox) so far using kernel 3.0?
i want to try this in my laptop