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Or one of his main disciples. Didn't mean to leave you out @[email protected] !!! #Slackware

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qg4tr7ro4opzbfu72tmamztg/post/3msvhf6qgvs24

Or one of his main disciples. Didn't mean to leave you out @[email protected] !!! #Slackware

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qg4tr7ro4opzbfu72tmamztg/post/3msvhf6qgvs24

Yep. Slackware is outdated. Or is it?
Hyprland 0.56.2, Ghostty, Fresh editor, DankMaterialShell and Zen browser. Enuff said.
#slackware #hyprland

Yep. Slackware is outdated. Or is it?
Hyprland 0.56.2, Ghostty, Fresh editor, DankMaterialShell and Zen browser. Enuff said.
#slackware #hyprland

Nix is probably a pun by Eelco Dolstra, the creator of Nix, on the Dutch word 'niks', which means 'nothing'. "What are you doing? Niks!" Niksen means sth like doing nothing specific, just procrastinating. As such it's no coincidence I'm both a Nikser and a Slacker. I've found my space.
#slackware #nixos

Nix is probably a pun by Eelco Dolstra, the creator of Nix, on the Dutch word 'niks', which means 'nothing'. "What are you doing? Niks!" Niksen means sth like doing nothing specific, just procrastinating. As such it's no coincidence I'm both a Nikser and a Slacker. I've found my space.
#slackware #nixos

So I forgot to configure the greeter user’s home directory

I was reading a console message while booting into run level 4 for a while now

daemon: fatal: failed to create directory /var/lib/greeter/.run: No such file or directory

The failure of modern search engines

I was thinking that there was some configuration I had forgotten about that I did not need, and I have been ignoring it. But I decided to look into it today.

Years of conditioning have led me to search for things first. But as more proof of the death of search engines due to invalid results, there were no search results on Duck Duck Go. That’s right. None. Zero. Nil. Nada.

I try not to use...

https://nokoto.org/user/3/posts/1093

So I forgot to configure the greeter user’s home directory

I was reading a console message while booting into run level 4 for a while now

daemon: fatal: failed to create directory /var/lib/greeter/.run: No such file or directory

The failure of modern search engines

I was thinking that there was some configuration I had forgotten about that I did not need, and I have been ignoring it. But I decided to look into it today.

Years of conditioning have led me to search for things first. But as more proof of the death of search engines due to invalid results, there were no search results on Duck Duck Go. That’s right. None. Zero. Nil. Nada.

I try not to use...

https://nokoto.org/user/3/posts/1093

The Slackware maintainer Ricardson @r1w1s1 has created third-party packages for #SonicDE on #Slackware. You can find the installation instructions, SlackBuilds, package status, and project documentation at https://sonicde-slackware.github.io. A big thank you to Ricardson!

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]sd.cafe/117044183925938699

The Slackware maintainer Ricardson @r1w1s1 has created third-party packages for #SonicDE on #Slackware. You can find the installation instructions, SlackBuilds, package status, and project documentation at https://sonicde-slackware.github.io. A big thank you to Ricardson!

https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]sd.cafe/117044183925938699

That time of the week again!
Four updates this week (the browsers and fresh-editor) and one announcement:
Per the 1st of September I'll stop making the Vivaldi package. There's an excellent SlackBuild for that available, made by Ruarí Ødegaard, one of the actual maintainers of Vivaldi.
No better than that, and I prefer laziness over double efforts 😆
While it's still available as a slackosundry get it over here:
#slackware #fresheditor #librewolf #brave-origin #vivaldi
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

That time of the week again!
Four updates this week (the browsers and fresh-editor) and one announcement:
Per the 1st of September I'll stop making the Vivaldi package. There's an excellent SlackBuild for that available, made by Ruarí Ødegaard, one of the actual maintainers of Vivaldi.
No better than that, and I prefer laziness over double efforts 😆
While it's still available as a slackosundry get it over here:
#slackware #fresheditor #librewolf #brave-origin #vivaldi
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

Oh, I almost forgot... Aika v0.0.2 is now out :D https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote?name=4e8853635bf0b47f25b6c17a9621fa56fc04aea4

Aside from a host of fixes, here is a partial list of new things in it:

* New: Add Opus support.
* New: Add a proper help screen (hit 'h' to show it, 'c' to close it).
* New: Add "stop after finish" functionality (toggle with 'S' at runtime).
* New: Add playlist repeating (toggle with 'R' at runtime).
* New: Display the elapsed time in terms of tracks and total playqueue time at the bottom of the play queue.
* New: Add the --theme and --list-themes command line arguments.
* Bunch of new themes!
* Official SlackBuild for #slackware (see the release page for the link)

There's a #Haiku package on the release page as well. I'm going to see about getting it added to HaikuPorts tonight or tomorrow as well so that a user of #HaikuOs can easily install it from the HaikuDepot.

#aika #LinuxAudio #tui

Oh, I almost forgot... Aika v0.0.2 is now out :D https://fossil.cyberia9.org/aika/technote?name=4e8853635bf0b47f25b6c17a9621fa56fc04aea4

Aside from a host of fixes, here is a partial list of new things in it:

* New: Add Opus support.
* New: Add a proper help screen (hit 'h' to show it, 'c' to close it).
* New: Add "stop after finish" functionality (toggle with 'S' at runtime).
* New: Add playlist repeating (toggle with 'R' at runtime).
* New: Display the elapsed time in terms of tracks and total playqueue time at the bottom of the play queue.
* New: Add the --theme and --list-themes command line arguments.
* Bunch of new themes!
* Official SlackBuild for #slackware (see the release page for the link)

There's a #Haiku package on the release page as well. I'm going to see about getting it added to HaikuPorts tonight or tomorrow as well so that a user of #HaikuOs can easily install it from the HaikuDepot.

#aika #LinuxAudio #tui

Basically what I want from a wm. No frills, just a bar, a bg, a couple of workspaces, some applications and a bit of color.
River-classic gives me just that.
#slackware #riverwm

Basically what I want from a wm. No frills, just a bar, a bg, a couple of workspaces, some applications and a bit of color.
River-classic gives me just that.
#slackware #riverwm

@artifex @manawyrm I downloaded over a 14.4 modem and it took forever. And nobody could pick up the phone during that time! I overwrote every floppy I had including WFW 3.11. And then I installed it and had to download separately Netscape 3.x which was only 5 MB, instead of the larger Netscape Communicator suite. Later on, I discovered CheapBytes and got the CD's mailed to me. #slackware

@artifex @manawyrm I downloaded over a 14.4 modem and it took forever. And nobody could pick up the phone during that time! I overwrote every floppy I had including WFW 3.11. And then I installed it and had to download separately Netscape 3.x which was only 5 MB, instead of the larger Netscape Communicator suite. Later on, I discovered CheapBytes and got the CD's mailed to me. #slackware

@manawyrm @jdkiser

Oldest pic I could find 1995. First computer. 486 DX4 75 Packard Bell. I overclocked to 100MHz using a jumper from 3x to 4x multiplier. 8MB of RAM. I found 4 extra MB in a computer that was thrown out in the dump and it worked (30 pin SIMM) so I ended up with 12MB. 545MB Hard Drive. This was before we had computer desks in homes so we just put it on a table and keyboard in lap. Came with Win95 but I had Slackware with fvwm95 on it by 1997.

#retrocomputing #linux #slackware

@manawyrm @jdkiser

Oldest pic I could find 1995. First computer. 486 DX4 75 Packard Bell. I overclocked to 100MHz using a jumper from 3x to 4x multiplier. 8MB of RAM. I found 4 extra MB in a computer that was thrown out in the dump and it worked (30 pin SIMM) so I ended up with 12MB. 545MB Hard Drive. This was before we had computer desks in homes so we just put it on a table and keyboard in lap. Came with Win95 but I had Slackware with fvwm95 on it by 1997.

#retrocomputing #linux #slackware

The world's first social network?

I think the following block will suffice to speak for itself. Most of you reading this will have no idea what's going on, and that's a shame, really.

Anyway, when you 'finger' it out, feel free to finger me at SDF.org or tilde.team ⛵

From [email protected] Mon Feb 19 21:32:35 1990
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Date: 19 Feb 90 1831 PST
From: Les Earnest [email protected]
Subject: re: Greetings...
To: [email protected]
Status: R

[In reply to message sent Mon, 19 Feb 90 16:02:17 EST.]

I'm glad that you are enjoying the C3 articles. I need to write another
one soon.

Here is a response to your conjectures, mostly regurgitated from an
article that I posted on Human-nets in 1985. Feel free to forward it to
alt.forklore.computers, or I can post it there if you prefer. I haven't
been reading that newsgroup, but a quick look indicates that maybe I
should.

Finger was named for the act of pointing. I recall that sometime after it
became popular I received a message from a system administrator who
thought that it should be renamed so that users would not have to use a
"dirty" word. I gave his request all the consideration that it deserved.

I created Finger around 1971 to meet a local need at the Stanford
Artifical Intelligence Lab. People generally worked long hours there,
often with unpredictable schedules. When you wanted to meet with some
group, it was important to know who was there and when the others would
likely reappear. It also was important to be able to locate potential
volleyball players when you wanted to play, Chinese food freaks when you
wanted to eat, and antisocial computer users when it appeared that
something strange was happening on the system.

The only tool then available for seeing who was running on our DEC-10
computer was a WHO program that showed IDs and terminal line numbers for
people who were logged in. There was no information available on people
who were not logged in. I frequently saw people running their fingers
down the WHO display saying things like "There's Don and that's Pattie but
I don't know when Tom was last seen." or "Who in hell is VVK and where
does line 63 go?"

I wrote Finger and developed the supporting database to provide this
information in traditional human terms -- real names and places. Because
I preferred to talk face to face rather than through the computer or
telephone, I put in the feature that tells how long the terminal had been
idle, so that I could assess the likelihood that I would find them there
if I walked down the hall.

The program was an instant hit. Some people asked for the Plan file
feature so that they could explain their absence or how they could be
reached at odd times, so I added it. I found it interesting that this
feature evolved into a forum for social commentary and amusing
observations.

Finger was picked up by a number of other groups with DEC-10 computers
that were connected to Arpanet -- software flowed in all directions around
the net in those days. It later migrated to Un*x, probably via U.C.
Berkeley. Somewhere along the line the idea arose to provide a network
Finger service. I don't remember who suggested that but it seemed like a
good idea at the time so I stuck it in. Some other anxious people wanted
to be able to verify that their mail was delivered to specific addressees,
so the Mail feature was also added.

While I was somewhat surprised by the popularity of Finger, it has not
been as successful as an earlier program that I invented -- the spelling
checker. It too was created to fill a personal need that many others
apparently share. We didn't think about commercial development and
software protection in those days, but if we had we probably could have
made something out of it. On the other hand, I enjoyed the comradery
of those gentler times and have no regrets.

-Les Earnest ([email protected])

tl;dr: Yeah, in case you're wondering, and would like to kick the tires and take it for a spin, on Debian it's as simple as:

# apt update
#apt install finger

if you want to play with the daemon, that would be available to you by installing either efingerd or cfingerd. For #Slackware users, finger is already installed HERE, and the daemon is just #fingerd; finger listens on port 79.

Enjoy! 👋🤠

#tallship #FOSS #finger #social_networking

Slackosundries freshly baked!
A lot of updates this week and ProtonPass as a new addition!
Go get them for your Slackware install as long as supplies last 😎

- Updates 01-Aug-2026

- bottom 0.14.7-1

- brave-origin 1.93.129-1

- filen 3.0.53

- fresh-editor 0.4.6-1

- librewolf 153.0.1-1

- proton pass 1.38.1-1

- vivaldi 8.1.4087.61-1

#slackware #slackosundries
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

Slackosundries freshly baked!
A lot of updates this week and ProtonPass as a new addition!
Go get them for your Slackware install as long as supplies last 😎

- Updates 01-Aug-2026

- bottom 0.14.7-1

- brave-origin 1.93.129-1

- filen 3.0.53

- fresh-editor 0.4.6-1

- librewolf 153.0.1-1

- proton pass 1.38.1-1

- vivaldi 8.1.4087.61-1

#slackware #slackosundries
https://codeberg.org/thesaigoneer/slackosundries

It is Saturday.
It is time to update my SlackoSundries.

I spent the better part of the last hour checking and tweaking all options in Noctalia.

Somehow this feels grand.

#slackware #noctalia #archlabs

It is Saturday.
It is time to update my SlackoSundries.

I spent the better part of the last hour checking and tweaking all options in Noctalia.

Somehow this feels grand.

#slackware #noctalia #archlabs

July 31 is also System Administrator Appreciation Day
https://youtu.be/_XOu-xylr0g
#weirdal #parody #it #computers #tech #livemusic #y2k #virus #tech #gear #satire #programming #coding #media #digital #Operatingsystem #monitor #pc #desktop #hackers #hacker #hp #admin #system #systems #slackware

July 31 is also System Administrator Appreciation Day
https://youtu.be/_XOu-xylr0g
#weirdal #parody #it #computers #tech #livemusic #y2k #virus #tech #gear #satire #programming #coding #media #digital #Operatingsystem #monitor #pc #desktop #hackers #hacker #hp #admin #system #systems #slackware

Slackware Forge is being abused by Chinese computer infrastructure

Unfortunately the Forge web site forge.slackware.nl is super slow today. The reason: an onslaught from many many IP addresses belonging to Chinese infrastructure. It almost feels like a DDoS attack. Every repository, every commit, every 'blame' page seems to be requested and the requestors are likely bots. A UserAgent containing "Edg/145.0.0.0" i.e. with a missing "e" tells it all.

#Slackware #Forgejo

https://blog.slackware.nl/slackware-forge-is-being-abused-by-chinese-computer-infrastructure/