I had fun setting up AntiX on an old netbook, running GNUstep and a couple of cool old but lightweight applications, like Palemoon, Nedit, PCmanFM, Syncterm...
Also, there's oneko the cat following my mouse pointer XD
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mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I get bored quickly.
Better done than perf
#legacypunk #linux #distrohopping #retrocomputing
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@_elena@mastodon.social yeah, the usual "don't mix politics with tech/software" bullsh*t basically
I have not yet tried it, but it seems like Distrobox makes the dilemma of what distro to choose as a host somewhat irrelevant.
You can choose whatever distro you like, stable, rolling release, bleeding edge, deb based, rpm based, with AUR, without AUR, derivative of another distro or a new distro made from scratch...
As long as it supports Distrobox, in theory you are able to run whatever your host lacks (I mean applications, not base stuff like drivers, X server, etc.)
#linux #distrobox
I like to complicate things just because, so I'll try to run #OpenBSD on an old-ish laptop and see if I can make it run like a decent desktop system.
My experience with FreeBSD was not very successful, so I don't have high hopes, but who knows, right?
I'm really troubled by the whole xlibre being included in Slackware thing.
I thought Slackware was all about what works and not changing things to the new fancy thing just because. I smell further motives and it makes me sad.
#Slackware just keeps pulling me back in.
I tried running it in a production machine and I ran into some trouble (my fault) so I went back to Debian, but I always want to go back to slack.
I recently installed 15.0 in an old netbook and it runs smoothly as butter. XFCE takes a minute to start, but after that it is 100% usable.
I'm sure I'll keep trying Slackware on machines more and more critical, maybe even a server. I just love it and I want to master it. It's such a great learning tool!
Hot take: I think things like bubbles.town are bad for the #indieweb, #smallweb, #boringweb, #blogosphere or whatever you want to call it.
That ranking mechanism is just a drop in replacement for any other sorting/scoring algorithm.
I am seeing many posts very obviously doing "optimizations" like publishing replies to the top posts, using similar titles or talking about the same topics...
This is introducing the toxic incentive to try to rise to the top of the list and I hate it.
I published my answer to some "Writing Sparks", ideas to help you get started writing
http://martinvukovic.com/posts/2026/03-10-writing-sparks.html
In August 2025, Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google.
The great dilemma:
Use an older version of Linux on an old PC so that it performs well on that hardware, or use a newer version to keep it current and as functional as possible, but paying the price of consuming more resources and losing performance...?
I posted "Crossing Borders"
A text about my relationship with the English language and the possibility to start a new blog in this language.
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@cshishido does minicum work without a modem connection...?
I didn't know kermit either, adding it to the list, thanks!
I couldn't make syncterm work on Slackware 10 (yes, 10).
Besides telnet, do you know any other legacy terminals that I can use to connect to a BBS?
I feel dumb.
I'm trying to install wifitui in slackware stable using the slackbuild script, but I am getting a Go error "invalid go version 1.23.0: must match format 1.23".
I have zero experience with Go... I tried editing the go.mod file so that it matches that format, and re-packaging the source, but the build process still throws an error quoting the github url of the package, so it seems it is still reading something from a remote location.
Any ideas...?