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If you have the goal of being a slackware maintainer, what's a good starting point? Joining the irc and LQ and help out or build packages for the repo or fix slackbuilds? Just wondering because I'd love to work towards that. Slackware feels like home to me and I want to help it stay that way. If any package maintainers or Slackware maintainers out there on reddit can chime in too that would be great! I love this distro and now I want to help out and use my computer science skills to the best of my ability! Hope to hear from you all soon! Thank you! 🙂

I saw a post recently that some major components of the system got updated and we're going into slackware 16.0 alpha stage. If you're someone like me who just runs current and used the current iso on install, what steps do you take to stay on current and upgrade the major system components and not break your system? I use sbopkg along with the Ponce repo for slackbuilds. I also use alien bob current repo for libreoffice. What steps do I need to take to upgrade the system safely without breaking it? Thank you in advance!

Been curious how Slackware fairs as a daily laptop distro? I know they different hardware and such but I'm guessing newer laptops it would be ok but older ones would need that 32 bit support. Any fellow slackers out there that use Slackware as a laptop distro, I'm curious about your experience and any issues you encountered compared to desktop. Thanks in advance! :)

Happy to be apart of the Slackware Community and in a few days I'll have 1 month of slackware as a my daily distro! :)

Since my cat came in this morning, she's been very clingy and meowing frequently. I can't tell if she's sick or not. She has her eyes either closed or half opened and she's just very whiny. I've petted her and she doesn't seem to show any pain signs. Is she just scared? I'm not sure what to do :/

Yes she is spayed

There's no coughing or any signs of pain when I pet her so I'm not sure if she's just scared or something else. She was a stray we took in so I'm not sure of her age but the vet said she was between 8-10 years old by her teeth. I think she's a tabby and siamese mix since she's white with mixes of orange.

I got an old 8gb ram A8-6410 APU HP Pavilion and a 2016 Lenovo with 8gb ram and a i5-6400 CPU. What distros would run good on this old of hardware without issues?

What are some distros that are well maintained and non systemd?

I really want to make this my permanent home and never leave! All i got left to do is set up some virtual machines with virt-manager and then setup my compilers for work with emacs and im good! I love this distro and hope to become an expert at it and contribute to it as my skills progress! Slackware is the only distro that actually is teaching me Linux more and I feel as though if I grind it out through the issues then I'll really grow as a Linux user and Slackware user. I installed the current iso I got from Slackware UK! I'm for the best!

I usually do the one time pay and my phone is paid off but the bill can't seem to get lower. My mother has her phone paid off and with only two lines we're paying $180 a month. If I were to upgrade to another phone is there a way to lower the bill or keep it the same if I pay it off in one purchase? I have an authorized retailer in my area so no official stores. What is causing the bill to stay that high and are some measures to either lower it or keep it the same if an upgrade is needed?

I'm making it a goal for me to really work hard and learn Linux deeper and be able to daily drive slackware as my main distro in the future. I'm also going to work hard and contribute to the community as much as I can with the time I get. I really want to be a slacker and embrace slackware as a daily driver. I hear so many cool things from folks that been using it since the 90s and it's awesome they stuck with it that long.

Every time I try slackware I end up failing some where but after a cool down period I end up wanting to come right back to it. Maybe it's a calling or just the nostalgia but I think this distro is meant for me. I do still like Debian too but I think Slackware might just be my future home 🏡

I hope to join the community and learn a ton from all of you great people on the IRC, LQ, and sub reddit. Thank you for helping keep a great distro alive for so long through all these years!

Here's mine... When I was a child, I grew up in a small trailer and at night I would see a shadow of a little boy in my room just about every night. Id also hear footsteps moving through the house. Come to find out my little brother had died at home before being taken away based on what my mother said. Weird thing was he died as an infant but this shadow wasn't a baby. My dad was skeptical as well about it and once our trailer had an issue where it came off the foundation and my dad was under the house jacking it up and he swore he heard a child's footsteps and man's foot steps go from one end of the trailer to the other and no one else was in the home at the time. That event always confused me but maybe it was my brother aging in way I didn't understand.

At a friend's house I saw a more non shadow version of an old woman coming down the stairs and I asked her what she was doing and she just looked at me then vanished. I told my friend about it the next day and his mother stated the previous owner had died in the home after losing her balance and falling down the stairs. Was an odd event but I guess she didn't cross over yet. That one didn't really bother me, and she was more corporal than my possible brother.

Back in October of 2023, my dad was having trouble (double amputee in a wheelchair mind you) with getting into the bathroom and got stuck. His heart rate was accelerating and he told my mom and I he was losing feeling in his arms and just collapsed head first down onto the floor. EMTs said he was gone and come to find out it was a massive heart attack. When he died I saw something fly up through the ceiling and disappear. My guess was his soul has left because it was a strange blue color. Not long after his funeral I had strange activity in our current home. Stuff would fall unexplained, found a penny heads up in the middle of the floor with my mom's birth year in it, smell my dad's cologne and such in different rooms and hear some muffled voices at night. Then one night I was playing with my cat and she went into the kitchen and it was around 9pm in the fall so it was dark outside and standing right near a closet door not far from his spot where he died was a shadow figure of my literal father with legs. I didn't know how to react to it but all I said was wow that's cool! My mom was in the same room near me (living room was close to that bathroom) and never noticed anything. My cat did because she stopped and turned around from going into our kitchen and looked right up at him. So I know I wasn't the only one who noticed him. Not long after that encounter, I told my dad that it was time for him to move on and go where he needed to be. The activity ceased and it's been dead silent in our home ever since. That event resonated with me because it felt like he was really trying to say goodbye so I wouldn't be depressed and that he'd be ok.

Those were just some experiences I've had especially with shadow figures. Are they our loved ones or demons in disguise or inter dimensional beings.... Who knows? I'm curious about what experiences you've all had and what what did you think of them?

New to the community and been considering a change from Debian to Guix. I love emacs and I also have a ran a declarative distro in NixOS. I never used the lisp like languages before so that will be a change but I'm willing to learn. Just hoping to learn about the struggles you can face with daily driving guix and any great advice if I decide to switch! Thanks in advance for commenting!

So I got a CS degree which at this point is nearly impossible to get into because I didn't get into the field right after graduation (due to taking care of a parent), my degree is near useless now. I'm thinking about getting into diesel or automotive work because it sounds the most interesting outside of aviation maintenance (which requires schooling). Sadly I got too much debt for schooling (57k) so that might be out of the question. Is there any career path for these fields without schooling or should I get into a union and do something different (electrical)? I'm not a very strong or big dude so physical demands can be rough for me but I'll try and aim to build up some strength for it.

I want to avoid the construction field,plumbing and I have no clue how id fair with HVAC. Here in Eastern KY there's not a lot of opportunities so the trades or something medical is mainly what seems to be ok here. Outside that I was suggested with going to a lube shop and do oil changes and such but it seems like the only career path in that is literally just manager and I don't want to be a manager. I really just want to do the job make a reasonable living and not deal with a bunch of employees and such and just focus on doing a great job and not being constantly stressed out. That's what I'm hoping to do because Im really not much of a people person to begin with so I just want to be good at getting stuff done. What paths are there for me?

Was mowing the neighbor's yard and some fishing line got wrapped around the blade area. The line was cut but my cousin told me the fishing line could've got wrapped up in the drive shaft to stop the blade from moving. Outside of that it could be a belt or pulley issue?

If you don't have much money and a CS degree but want to learn devops, what are some affordable or free ways to get into the experience of learning devops?

I'm also curious about what experiences you all had to get you into devops and what you enjoy most about it?

I'm just a software engineer at heart and by trade (barely if that). Just seems like an interesting field and want to learn more 😎

When you all got into Gentoo, did you feel like it was truly a great learning experience for getting deeper into Linux and the fact that you could really build your system the way you wanted to?

Was there things that took a while to get used to doing?

What was the point that made you fully decide on being a full time Gentoo user vs other distros?

Just trying to gauge if I were to run Gentoo down the road if the experience will be something I can really grow from and be more hands on with Linux in general. I've built some packages for various distros for practice to gain knowledge of their build systems and such and just gradually learning more of the terminal commands. Slackware for example was one where I had to fix broken slack builds and deal with things not being preconfigured well out of the box which I think was a good learning experience looking bad. Just wanting to expand my knowledge