I have a place reserved in my heart that only Slackware Linux fills. Strange as it might be, Slackware was the first Linux distribution that seemed to understand me and, I it.
I recently read an article which brought to mind, the time that I started my venture into the Linux community as [...]

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According to this announcement made by the FreeBSD Security Officer on the freebsd-security mailing list, FreeBSD 6.3 will reach its End Of Life and, will no longer be supported by the FreeBSD Security Team. Users are strongly advised to upgrade to a newer release. There are extended support branches (6.4 and 7.1), the existing 7.2 [...]

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Listen slackers. I’ve been mounting shares and remote file systems for several years and, it just doesn’t get any easier than this.

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Debian 5.0 Lenny has been released and I have recently upgraded 1 of my servers so far. Going by the book, backing up the entire /etc directory then changing references to etch to lenny in sources. After that was done, I issued the command, apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade. When this completed, I just compared [...]

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I have been spending the day re-inventing my file server. I have a Slackware Linux machine that serves as the PDC on my home network and also as my primary fileserver. In order to perform the task of PDC, the system must use Samba. Samba also serves as a file sharing server which can share [...]

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