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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...

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Older 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...

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Older 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...

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VMware-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...

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Older 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...

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Emulating 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...

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Benchmarking 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...

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Packages 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...

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QEMU 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...

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Qemu, 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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