I found a very easy solution for having NetworkManager installed on Slackware Linux, even without using dirty tricks as I did with Slackware 13.0. How? Take a look at rworkman’s packages for XFCE 4.8.0 In the extra/packages you will find packages for NetworkManager, both the system and the applet. I would also install the packages [...]
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This is one of the posts that I unluckily lost on 2011-04-09 and then recovered. The information may be very old. Or not.As assignment for Data Structures and Algorithms course, we had to work with a modified version of the quicksort algorithm. It came obvious that for modifying a qsort you need to implement it [...]
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This is one of the posts that I unluckily lost on 2011-04-09 and then recovered. The information may be very old. Or not.I really like (and miss) Linux Mint Menu (mintmenu), so I installed it on my Debian Sid box and here is how I managed it: Install mintsystem and mintmenu deb packages (see the [...]
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In this post I would like to share with you some configurations and tweaks for using our beloved Slackware Linux 13.1 (also current) with the last generation of Macbook Pro, having Intel Core i5 and Corei7 CPUs. It should also work for past Intel based generations of Macbook Pro. Maybe also on some non Pro [...]
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Update 2011-11-10: This post is quite old now and I’ve just noticed that gsb-current actually hosts Gnome 3.0. What is described here won’t probably work with gsb-current. You have two possible solutions to try out: Use gsb-2.30 that is developed for Slackware 13.1 (or -current at 13.0 time): SOURCE=http://ftp5.gwdg.de/pub/linux/slackware/gsb/gsb-2.30_slackware-13.1/ Give my other post NetworkManager on [...]
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