This Slacko updater was a good idea, but relying on Slackware to get everything correct is an issue. slackware is the one distro that always gets it right imo. and to be fair r that bug hit everyone, not just slackware. the problem isnt with Patricks packages. nor is it slacko or its devs (i LOVE s...

setup ntpd. also ntpdate comes with the ntpd so you can manually adjust time
as well.

i have to disagree.if firefox just needed to turn off features to stay secure you wouoldnt have any functionality. also if you read through their security advisories https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/known-vulnerabilities/firefox/ youd see its not as simple as just deactivating some settings al...

Well,..I'm not a dev,...(just a happy linux user for over 10 years now). But my very favorite Slax-based used to be Vector. Then they started to deviate from basic Slackware,...and then the releases got farther and farther apart. I started with Vector back at version 5.9 (and was sold on it!). But ...

fwiw i run wicd exclusively on all my boxen. i like it that much

firefox (or any browser for that matter)is THE largest security problem for anyone regardless of OS. i always end up being the maintainer for firefox packages on whatever distro project i happen to be working on. firefox issues its security and bug fixes as a new version of firefox. my point being i...

i cant stand how they (salix) build packages and the fact that they rely on sourcforge
for packages. i know a couple of the salix guys from using slackware for so long.
smart people i just hate the way they build and submit packages

not sure which flavor puppy youre using but you might check out http://www.studioware.org/ its a project by some slackware users who are musicians. you can also find them on freenode in #studioware. they build the software for slackware but you can easily compile the programs or use it as a list and...

i run slackware almost exclusively anymore. im really liking slacko too

ive also dev'd on yoper linux and vector linux and am starting another which will be called principia (slackware based) which will include zfs on root and dep handling of official slackware packages

very sweet. thank you

ive got a full install of slacko 6.3.2 and id like to compile whatever.
is there some package which includes compilers and libs and whatnot