Older Slackware versions (III)
After successfully installing Slackware 3.5 and discovering that Slackware 1.1.2 was still available on the internet at sunsite.unc.edu I simply had to try it… At first I had no luck, as this version...
View ArticleOlder Slackware versions (IV)
Working with fvwm2 wasn’t too much fun… So I started looking for and old Slackware version that had KDE.I found out that my oldest CD with KDE was Slackware 4.0: As it says on the cover, it comes with...
View ArticleOlder Slackware versions (V)
Well, I finally managed to get a higher resolution in VMware, at least with Slackware 4.0I discovered that VMware-server 1.0.7 still includes the drivers for XFree86 3.* & 4.* In XFree86 3.* there...
View ArticleVMware-server 1.0.7 on 2.6.27 kernels
Last Friday lots up upgrades were released for Slackware-current, including a new kernel, 2.6.27.5Since changing a kernel usually has some consequences, I waited until today, Sunday, to apply all...
View ArticleOlder Slackware versions (VI)
Last October I wrote some posts about installing older Slackware versions on VMware. I have since sort of abandoned VMware for several reasons: It might be free for personal use, but it is not Open...
View ArticleEmulating a mainframe on ArmedSlack
In preparation for a future project, I built Hercules on ArmedSlack, running in Qemu. The idea was to test the concept of running the mainframe emulator on the Arm processor. The result was quite...
View ArticleBenchmarking with nbench
Since I was doing some tests with Slackware running on different platforms (Slack/390, Slack/390x, ArmedSlack on Qemu, etc.) I wanted to compare the performance of the different setups. I used a (quite...
View ArticlePackages for ARMedslack
No, I did not abandon ARMedslack, the official port of Slackware to the ARM architecture… It was simply a matter of lack of time (or a question of priorities, depending of your point of view). But this...
View ArticleQEMU and Brazilian keyboards
This post explains how to get QEMU working on a host with a pt_BR (ABNT2) keyboard fro Brazil. These keyboards have the “dead” accent-keys and a few modifications that are specific to this layout. The...
View ArticleQemu, snapshots, temporary files, where they go and how to change that
I use Qemu for several tasks, but its primary use is for testing programs. It has a wonderful feature called “snapshots”, where you can save a known state of the Virtual Machine you can fall back to if...
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