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Episode: 3827
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Title: HPR3827: Reply to hpr 3798
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Source: https://hub.hackerpublicradio.org/ccdn.php?filename=/eps/hpr3827/hpr3827.mp3
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Transcribed: 2025-10-25 06:08:33
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This is Hacker Public Radio Episode 3827 for Tuesday the 4th of April 2023.
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Today's show is entitled, Reply to HP are 3798.
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It is hosted by Brian in Ohio, and is about 8 minutes long.
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It carries a clean flag.
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The summary is added slack or information.
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Hey, hello, Hacker Public Radio Brian in Ohio here.
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Another show, amazing. I think I'm going to hit a high quote of this year, which is good.
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There's always need for shows at HPR, and I'll do the requisite.
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If you haven't done a show, do one.
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Keep this project going. It's a great service.
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Thanks to Rowan for joining the janitor team.
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Today's show is not going to be about the Z80.
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It's just a quick reply to HP are 3798, done by a Mecca Traniac.
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I like his stuff. If you don't like his emails, I think you just delete them, and that would be great.
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But he's got good shows, interesting stuff.
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3798, he talked a little bit about slackware.
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I just want to maybe add a little information for anybody who's thinking about using slackware.
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I've been a long time slackware user. I use it on all of my machines.
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I use it on my Raspberry Pi's. I don't really stray.
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The only thing I don't use slackware on is the pine phone that I'm playing with.
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Only because slackware is really for desktops and not designed for a mobile operation.
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Yeah, who knows what could happen in the future.
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A couple of things I ever said in Mecca Traniac's show,
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first off was about the different sizes of distributions that he found for his slackware.
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He said he picked the biggest one.
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As far as I know, the best place to get slackware is to go to slackware.com.
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You'll be greeted with a very simple website and over there it'll say get slack.
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Click on that. It'll say go to mirrors. You go to mirror.
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From there, there's a list of stuff on the side and it'll say pick your DVD install.
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Go ahead and click on that. You usually see a tree. These are all mirrors so that you're going to get the one that's closest to you.
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You'll see a tree of all the available slackwares. They go all the way back to slackware 8, I think, or maybe 11.
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But anyway, if you're going to want to grab the newest one, if you've never done slackware before, that's the best one to use.
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Slackware 15. You click on that and then you're going to be presented with some options.
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You can get slackware 15 all by itself, DVD install image or ISO image or something like that.
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That is a 32-bit Linux, the latest slackware 15 in 32-bit.
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Yes, slackware still ships a 32-bit version. So if you've got older hardware out there and you need 32-bit support, it's the place to go.
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I personally use the 64-bit version. I'm running slackware on an IBM ThinkPad T480.
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With a Core i7, 8th Gen processor, it's a very nice machine.
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There's slackware 64 ISO and you're going to click on that and then you're going to download the DVD install image, DVD ISO.
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Now, you don't need a DVD drive to install slackware. Those images are hybrid images.
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You can use the DD command once you've downloaded it.
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DD it to a USB stick and it'll boot right up and you'll have the installer.
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All the files that you need to install slackware.
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When you download it, you get an installer and you get the full tree as of the time that slackware 15 was released.
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That's all you will need to install slackware.
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On my T480, I use EFI to boot into this machine.
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In fact, this is a dual boot machine. I've got the windows partition that it came with.
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I shrunk it down, used a G-parted and then I put a new partition and I put slackware there.
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This machine dual boots into Windows 10, I think.
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I don't really ever use it, but I'd have it just in case because there's always...
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There could be a need sometime where there's some piece of software that you might want to use.
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It's a Windows-only thing. Currently, I only use one program that's Windows-only and that's a soaring computer condor soaring.
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Anyway, but it's an EFI boot and you fall the install instructions and you'll get to the boot section.
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So, slackware on an EFI machine does not use Lilo to boot. It uses E-Lilo.
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So, E-Lilo is the next version of Lilo or move on from there.
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It's available. I've got the links in the show notes. It's a source-forch site.
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It's a booting, what they call it, a boot manager that is for EFI drives.
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It's a lot like E-Lilo was and that it's got a plain text boot configuration file that can be found in the boot section,
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boot EFI, EFI, slackware, and there's your config file, E-Lilo.config.
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And I'll actually post it my small E-Lilo conflict. That's a dual boot to Windows.
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Yeah, because the default is Windows. It's a W. Anyway, so it's a simple text-based boot configuration file.
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And this machine has no problems. It boots into using EFI boots into either systems.
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I've got a couple of different kernel options and it's really easy to update kernels.
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When you do an update that has a kernel update, you just copy it into the boot section and that's all you have to do.
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Like in Lilo, you just have to run Lilo again. Lilo after you did a kernel thing and it would grab the new partition.
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You don't have to do that with E-Lilo. You just copy it over in the next time you boot it'll boot into the new hard drive into the new kernel as long as it's labeled correctly.
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Anyway, what else can I say about this? So, and no, no, it's not Lilo, it's E-Lilo, it's for EFI systems.
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Now, that being said, I have a Dell machine that my wife uses at home, which runs Slackware.
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And on that system, I used, I did actually go into what they call legacy boot. It's an option.
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And then I just used standard Lilo in that, because it's not an EFI boot partition at that point.
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And that's not a dual boot machine. It's only, it's Slackware only.
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Because my wife uses Slackware also. She's awesome. Anyway, so that was, I think, a couple things that I wanted to get out there.
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Slackware.com, it's the place to go to get Slackware and E-Lilo, not Lilo.
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And it's better than Lilo if you have an EFI machine. And anyway, thanks for listening.
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Mectroniac, keep the shows coming, especially one of those drama shows. That'd be really great.
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Another one of those end of the world apocalyptic things. That was very, very rewarding.
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That being said, thanks for listening. It says Brian and Ohio, I'm signing off. And I just want to remind you that using Slackware is an option.
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But if you become a Slackware user, reading is not an option. Goodbye.
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