I used to be hardcore…
I ran Slackware when it was on 400 floppies. I ran the 1.x kernel. I hacked channels on efnet in IRC for bragging rights. I waited all day long for wavs to download from a BBS. My game of choice used to be a MUD.
We grow up, we move on, and [...]
Do you run PCLinuxOS 2007 or Minime 2008 and would you like to take advantage of the latest kernel for PCLinuxOS? You can do this by enabling the ‘testing’ portion of the repository.
Read about Repository Control in PCLinuxOS
You’ll be looking for the ’sections’ blank when viewing repository details and you’ll just need to add ‘testing’ [...]
Want to Install the 2.6.13 Kernel is Slack but don’t know how? Ask and ye shall receive!
First, mount the CDROM…in my case, it is /dev/hdb
mount -t auto /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom
or
mount -t auto /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Next, let’s install that Kernel! Insert Slackware Disc 2…then issue the commands below.
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-source-2.6.13-noarch-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-modules-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-headers-2.6.13-i386-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/kernel-generic-2.6.13-i486-1.tgz
installpkg /mnt/cdrom/linux-2.6.13/alsa-driver-1.0.9b_2.6.13-i486.1.tgz
Information Week, who strive to be at the forefront of business innovation through technology, have recently lashed out (subtly mind you) at Linux…specifically the Linux Kernel.
The article is entitled, “The Linux Kernel’s Fuzzy Future” and they are oh so careful not to directly bash anyone or anything. However, it is obvious that they are trying [...]
