57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born. Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.
Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach
Just like Liam, this is me going back to my roots: Slackware was the very first Linux distro I installed myself. At the time (1996 or 1997) I only had dial-up internet at home, so over the course of a week or so I snuck a bunch of 3½" floppies into work, downloaded the various Slackware 3.1 boot and root disks onto them, and spent the next weekend alternately basking in my skillz and swearing loudly when things didn't actually work.
I got there in the end, though, and I was a Slackware user until the early 2000s when that shiny new-fangled Debian distro caught my eye.
Updated the #nwgshell#slackware#aarch64 repo earlier with the python 3.11 upgrades, as well as pushed all the other updates needed in other repos. NOW I can focus on real updates like hyprland and updating the WebKit-gtk package and deps. Wee! https://slackware.lngn.net/
I have a #unix question. I’m running #Slackware. I log into my machine from the console and use startx to start X11. By default, my terminal app (urxvt) does not start a login shell. I know I can configure it to do this. The question is: should I? And why?
I also refreshed what I’m calling the “pkg_dump” of #slackware#aarch64 package builds yesterday. There’s a shit-ton of stuff there, like a full gnome 46 desktop, and the latest Firefox 125.0.1, MAME, i3, sway, hyprland, etc. https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/pkg_dump/
Three weeks ago, the quarterly (security and stability) updates to various Java source code repositories were released. This means, new packages for OpenJDK versions 8, 11 and 17 are now in my Slackware repository. It took a while but hey, here they are.
For OpenJDK 8 I still use icedtea to compile the Java sources because it is convenient. The more modern
Initial python3.11 update pushed to the #nwgshell#slackware repo. I think it should all be good, I’ll fix up any issues later. It’s past my bed time now. Let me know if anything’s broken! 👍
Updated dav1d, libaom, and webkit2gtk-2.44.0 for #nwgshell#slackware and the readme’s still read, so I’ll call these upgrades safe to push to the repo today. I’ll have to look and see if anything else has slipped past me, but I think we’re basically all up to date already, except for hyprland (and updates always break things), I’ll look into that one. https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/x86_64/slackware64-current/nwg-shell/ChangeLog.txt
Any #slackware#current#nwgshell users want to try the latest hyprland, I’m not adding it to the repo (yet) but I put the needed pkgs here: https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/staging/ install/upgrade them in your existing (x86_64) install. It works, but I haven’t tested all the things yet.
So, openssh backdoor through a patch applied by some distros to make it work with systemd, which itself is vulnerable because of a compromise of the LZMA / xz code.