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Not disappointed so far. I did have to reinstall on my first setup attempt though because my pc shut off mid kernel upgrade.

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've just recently installed Slackware (15.0) for the first time and I have a question. What should I do if I want to rebuild some of the programs installed by system packages with different options? In case of a package from SlackBuilds this is more or less straightforward, but is there a .SlackBuild files for bult-in packages? Or should I myself figure out where is the upstream of the program and then build it from the upstream source tarball?

I have a desktop with Intel Xeon 2680v4 on X99 motherboard. Actually is with the Windows 11, but I just get 8gb RAM, Win 11 consumes a lot, I want resolve it with linux. Is the Slackware compatible with Xeon hardware? Did you have problems with Xeon?