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Episode: 3528
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Title: HPR3528: Slackware on a netbook
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3528/hpr3528.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 00:59:51
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This is Hacker Public Radio episode 3528 for Wednesday 9th of February 2022.
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Today's show is entitled, Sackware on a netbook, it is posted by Archers 72 and is about 6 minutes
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long and carries a clean flag. The summer is, a response show to HDR 3512.
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Hello, this is Archers 72. Welcome to Hacker Public Radio. In this episode is a response to
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Jezro on Ald Hardware. So inspired by him and Stoltz pulled out my Acer Spire 1 and installed
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Sackware on it to see if I could get a little bit of use out of it. The time of this recording,
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Sackware 15 and not come out yet. So I have Colonel 4.4 installed on it and the Spire 1 is a netbook.
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It's 1.6 gigahertz with only a giga-ram. But it did a decent job of starting Firefox when I had
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everything installed. It does run a little warm at about 45 degrees Celsius, so I pulled
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apart for that reason and also because the fan was making a bit of noise occasionally.
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Which I had mistaken for the hard drive going. So I put a solid state drive in just to make sure
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that that was not the problem. I pulled everything apart. The fan had only two little heat sink pads
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between the CPU and the GPU and a thin piece of metal for the fan. So that is probably why it
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doesn't cool that well. I didn't have any spare heat sink pads to replace it with. So I just took
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the Arctic Silver that I had on hand with the helps that it would take it down by a couple of degrees.
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I also oiled the fan bearings since I had it apart. The first thing that I decided to change
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on the default install is to make it ignore the lid switch so that I could keep this closed and run
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headless. The command is echo on greater than symbol. Slash this. Slash bus. Slash ACPI. Slash
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drivers. Slash button. Slash dollar sign. Platform. Column 00. Slash power. Slash control.
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My system did not recognize the command so I had to kind of guess after the slash button. Which one
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it is. I just took my best guess. What was first and list after I did an LS on the button directory.
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Clear screen by using control L is not in a default install of Slackware. So in .bash RC I bound
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the control L to the clear command. It didn't stick between reboots so I went ahead and entered
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an NF statement. It said if there is a bash.rc that it will source that file and put that in .bash
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underscore profile. The other thing I did is the Laylo menu is two minutes and so I edited the
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Laylo.com to take it down to five seconds. Using the timeout it's at 1200 which is there's 600
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for every minute so that 1200 is two minutes and 50 puts it down to five seconds.
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Next is adding a custom bash prompt. The first example I give includes the date, the username,
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the domain and which directory you're in. The second one just includes username and domain.
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The last thing I did was fix a problem that I was not the authorized to control networking as
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regular user. So I did pseudo user mod dash capital G net dev dash a and my user.
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I think I'm going to go upgrade to Slackware 15 now.
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I'm not sure what I'm going to use this netbook for now but I'll be sure to include a new
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episode if I do anything interesting. Thank you for listening.
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