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A unique moment. Having 7 packages in the repo now and they're all updated this week ;-).
One returnee (Brave Origin) and one new entrant: Tixati, the GTK torrent client I've been using for almost a decade now.#slackware #archlabs #brave #bottom #fresheditor #filen #vivaldi #librewolf #tixati
You can find all here:
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A unique moment. Having 7 packages in the repo now and they're all updated this week ;-).
One returnee (Brave Origin) and one new entrant: Tixati, the GTK torrent client I've been using for almost a decade now.#slackware #archlabs #brave #bottom #fresheditor #filen #vivaldi #librewolf #tixati
You can find all here:
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Currently sitting in Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Australia drinking NZ Black Gin, listening to Iron Maiden and, LOVING the weather. Mrs Dobbie and I are planning on our move from NZ to Aussie.
@jloc0 I've been here four days and as I promised, my first day I toasted my first XXXX Gold to you.
I genuinely love Noosa, it just feels like home.
#archlabs
#drunkenmastodonposting #nowplaying #ironmaiden #scapegrace
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Currently sitting in Noosa, Sunshine Coast, Australia drinking NZ Black Gin, listening to Iron Maiden and, LOVING the weather. Mrs Dobbie and I are planning on our move from NZ to Aussie.
@jloc0 I've been here four days and as I promised, my first day I toasted my first XXXX Gold to you.
I genuinely love Noosa, it just feels like home.
#archlabs
#drunkenmastodonposting #nowplaying #ironmaiden #scapegrace
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UltraGeeking:
Using Slackware Mango to ssh into a new Gentoo install (musl, openrc, rust, cosmic, zfs if it all works out this time) and writing a install manual is a very nice way to spend this Saturday morning 🤓
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UltraGeeking:
Using Slackware Mango to ssh into a new Gentoo install (musl, openrc, rust, cosmic, zfs if it all works out this time) and writing a install manual is a very nice way to spend this Saturday morning 🤓
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It's Wednesday here in Danang, time to get the sundries out there!
Hot off the press:
- The latest Librewolf (according to their git updated 3 hrs ago)
- Brave Origin of course- A new addition: Vivaldi!
There is an excellent Sbo pkg for that, made by one of the Vivaldi maintainers. But if you just want an installable Slackware pkg, you can find it in this repo; I switched back to Vivaldi myself also.
As a consequence Brave-Origin will be discontinued by me at the end of June 2026.
#slackware #vivaldi #librewolf #archlabs #braveorigin
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries -
It's Wednesday here in Danang, time to get the sundries out there!
Hot off the press:
- The latest Librewolf (according to their git updated 3 hrs ago)
- Brave Origin of course- A new addition: Vivaldi!
There is an excellent Sbo pkg for that, made by one of the Vivaldi maintainers. But if you just want an installable Slackware pkg, you can find it in this repo; I switched back to Vivaldi myself also.
As a consequence Brave-Origin will be discontinued by me at the end of June 2026.
#slackware #vivaldi #librewolf #archlabs #braveorigin
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Yep. Did it again. Couldnt have done it without this excellent guide, which is a write-up of a just as excellent YT video. This guy delivers and I really enjoyed setting this up yesterday: Fedora, btrfs, snapper, luks2 encryption. Obviously I changed something and used the Cosmic desktop for this experiment. Recommended!
#fedora #cosmic #archlabs
https://sysguides.com/fedora-44-full-disk-encryption-with-btrfs-snapshot-and-rollback-support -
Yep. Did it again. Couldnt have done it without this excellent guide, which is a write-up of a just as excellent YT video. This guy delivers and I really enjoyed setting this up yesterday: Fedora, btrfs, snapper, luks2 encryption. Obviously I changed something and used the Cosmic desktop for this experiment. Recommended!
#fedora #cosmic #archlabs
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My two cents on the new Hyprland:
Hypr, hypr, bring out the mango 🥭 !#slackware #mango #archlabs
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My two cents on the new Hyprland:
Hypr, hypr, bring out the mango 🥭 !#slackware #mango #archlabs
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What the? Vivaldi 8.0 is incredible.
So nice not having AI integrated, I could use this in place of Firefox with no issues.
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What the? Vivaldi 8.0 is incredible.
So nice not having AI integrated, I could use this in place of Firefox with no issues.
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@jloc0 Yeah, after that first go I went all in on OpenBox and landed on ArchLabs, where I met @nwgpiotr, who was doing his first Sway magic. And he picked up on Hyprland very quickly. Since I wanted to go in on Wayland I used his toolkit pretty extensively, mostly with Hyprland. That's how I ran into you; the rest is greybeard history 😂
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@jloc0 Yeah, after that first go I went all in on OpenBox and landed on ArchLabs, where I met @nwgpiotr, who was doing his first Sway magic. And he picked up on Hyprland very quickly. Since I wanted to go in on Wayland I used his toolkit pretty extensively, mostly with Hyprland. That's how I ran into you; the rest is greybeard history 😂
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@jloc0
Bug hunting 101: for some obscure reason Spectacle wasn't working in Slim 6.7. (Re)install tesseract and leptonica (available in your repo anyway), all good!
It's always the user that effs something up 😆
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For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 ! -
For posterity. The distro I ran the longest was ArchLabs, for 18 months. Epic!
Next month it will finally be surpassed. Then i've been running Slackware KDE by @jloc0 for a grand total of 19 months. Thanks mate 🍻 ! -
Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22
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Let me introduce you to the rabbit hole of the month. What a superb publication! Number one: advertising in mags was still a big thing.
Number two: it brought back that rush of enthousiasm and curiosity, like when i opened my first Toshiba 8088 laptop, at home, on my kitchentable. When Windows was still fun. OS/2!
Number three: The Chaos Manor, with dr. Jerry Pournelle. I don't need to say anything else.https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine?sort=date&and%5B%5D=language%3A%22English%22
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Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo -
Pt. 2 of the Gentoo install report.
There was a bit of functionality lacking, so i decided to switch profile (from barebone to desktop OpenRC), which is pretty straightforward. My 6.8 of dwm was pretty vanilla, only all required patches were there, so i've started on editing the config.def.h, also good. And the first kernel update arrived, testing ugrd and automatic initramfs update. Well, it didn't, obviously 🤣
I could, eventually, through my carefully written-down install command. I'll put it in an alias. And then I spent an exorbitant amount of time on Gruvbox and slstatus. Very well spent!
#archlabs #gentoo -
Geek speak: today, Labor Day, we are all free here. What did I do?
Reinstall Gentoo, openrc, uefi, xfs, encrypted rootfs and using ugrd as initramfs.
Making notes about that now slowly turns into a personal quick reference guide for such an install. I've done around 20 Gentoo installs so far, always reinventing the wheel. Many, many ah yes moments 😂
Installing xorg et all now (somehow I didnt dare to go the xlibre way yet), it has been a great day, very well spent!
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I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
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I can honestly tell you that, after spending months, possibly years on the Wayland side, going back to Xorg is indeed sheer hell. I got my big-bear suit out and hammered myself through it all, but man, what a chore.
Problem: dwm is so fucking good, patched et al, and Larry is up and running again. Hard to beat that. Tomorrow: all things setup. But st and rofi are already online, so i'm looking forward to that klutzing.
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First workday today with FreeBSD as the main system, running Mango WM on the Dell Inspiron 7300, with hybrid graphics.
Very important note to myself: think in solutions, not problems. Rethink and it'll work for you. and RTF Handbook!
No easy bluetooth? All my devices have at least one radio dongle (Dell kb mouse combo) or analog cable (Edifier MR3). The Linuxies are perfectly fine running all that with BT. So switch the 'old' core to your BSD machine. FreeBSD is blessed with an excellent Wayland stack, so mango, fuzzel, waypaper, wdisplays, nwg-look etc etc are all available. And that one 'unmissable' Linux app? They have a web interface also. No Linuxalators necessary. Great!
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@dobbie003 Thanks 🤓 I'll try to keep up with it 🤣 Tbh, right now the Debian btrfs project by Drew (with dwm and qtile amongst others) is an awesome project. It installs through a tui he build himself from bash scripts. He previously referenced #archlabs and #archbang as his 'examples' that he really enjoyed using. It's cool. Recommended!
#butterbian -
The vibrant landscape. I can't give it up. So many exciting things happening:
- RakuOS: immutable bootc image, but with a normal package manager. And Cosmic.
- Project Bluefin: the Dakota alpha is out, which is based on Gnome OS. So no more distro involved, pure Gnome as the basis.
- Butterknife: as mentioned yesterday Debian Stable, btrfs snapshots and a number of window managers to choose from (Qtile, Awesome, dwm, Sway, SwayFX, i3). Plus good looks and many, many scripts to install additional sw (Helium, Zen, ghostty etc etc).
- TunaOS: the bootc concept for enterprise Linux, based on Alma and CentOS. But also Bonito, which provides Fedora44 and Niri!
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Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.
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Getting there. Obviously I had a headstart running it on Slackware. And FreeBSD has the best Wayland wm repos, bar none. Also: gnarly things in FreeBSD: bluetooth, how to get that Linux application running, Linuxalators et al, sound and keymappings. But the Handbook is superb, just work my way through it over the days.
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Living nerd-life on the edge.
For the non-initiated it's hard to grasp, but in my throwback mood I have enabled the global ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" USE flag again. To install the latest KDE obviously. In the 5.28 days I used that setup of Gentoo for about 4 months before I broke it.
And it fills me with great joy to see that screen roll by again. Let's see how this ends 😎
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The new Sunn 0))) is the soundtrack for this Easter Monday Beer Session.
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@dobbie003 Obviously. A pint of Guinness within reach? Things shouldn't change.
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Zena Linux, that bootc container image with Mangowc and Niri, is humming along nicely. Finally spending some time to clean up configs for both wm's. And Fastfetch to do also 😜
#archlabs #mangowc #zenalinux -
Zena Linux, that bootc container image with Mangowc and Niri, is humming along nicely. Finally spending some time to clean up configs for both wm's. And Fastfetch to do also 😜
#archlabs #mangowc #zenalinux -
Simplified slstatus to what I actually use. Keybinds for applications back from sxhkd into config.def.h. Keys good again, VoidLinux updated. Thanks to the collective hangover after Tet I could do all this at work. Productive (finally) 😜
#archlabs #dwm #voidlinux -
As a non-dev I really enjoy the strictness of code. And the strictness of reading error-messages. Miss a comma or a curly bracket and you're reminded of your shortcomings. The ah-yes-of-course moment. Come across that with my nixos-rebuild and the dwm make. Loving it. As long as I can solve it 🤣
#dwm #archlabs -
Getting there! Updated and patched to dwm 6.8, on Void. And since spring is coming I decided to go for that good ol' murky foliage kind of stuff 😜
#archlabs #dwm #voidlinux -
Total distraction. Per usual. But at least that work laptop has Slackware Current with mangowc and sway all running great and smooth. Add noctalia for some bling (although it costs me an extra 300mb of ram compared to waybar...) and that's good to go. VoidLinux and dwm tomorrow then, with a little help of Bakkeby? Yup 👍🏻
As long as I don't get distracted again 🤣
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VoidLinux to the rescue.
Obviously that LUKS, dracut and bin kernel was a glorious PITA on Gentoo.
But..... VoidLinux has everything I want, a tutorial that actually worked was found quickly and now dwm 6.8, st and dmenu all compiled gloriously. Let the patching begin. Remember, this time I wanted to start from zero, Unfortunately I have to work tomorrow 🤣 so this will have to wait to later in the week. But this feels very appropriate for the ThinkPad. Beer time 🍻 on a job well done 😆
#archlabs #dwm #voidlinux -
I have a nice beef casserole slow cooking in the oven, time for a Guinness and some Metal
#atthegates #riptompa
#nowplaying #guinness #casserole #archlabs -
Don't like it when the shoe is on the other foot, Google?
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Void, with encrypted zfs, on the laptop. Dwm or River. Tbc. But Gentoo dwm is calling. Possibly before Tet.
NixOS with KDE on the N150. Solid.
Finally revived the old NUC with Slackware Tilers: Sway and Mango. And Dank. Great stuff.
The Thinkpad that wasn't sold: this will be either TileOS or Hatchery, a project by Troutcobbler, an old ArchLabs mate. Both Debian, tiling wm's. Cool. Check them out.
The last one will be after Tet, I'm off for a couple of days for a shitload of beer and karaoke 🍻😜
Keep our Fediverse a good place and enjoy my silence 😆
#archlabs #tet #theflyonthewall