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Posted on Mar 16, 2019 by kingbeowulf
Announced on the SBo mailing list and his blog, a long-time Slackware user and SBo buildscript maintainer, has cited both Slackware and SBo in a recent publication from his research group. Read more in his blog and paper below.
Posted on Mar 04, 2019 by kingbeowulf
Nvidia released a security bulletin and driver updates fix 8 security issues. One, CVE-2018-6260, can impact Linux users:
Posted on Feb 10, 2019 by kingbeowulf
This is a very simple bridge example to allow your qemu quest to access your host's LAN and internet, as opposed to being isolated to access only the internet via NAT (the default), for a Slackware64 14.2 host and a Windows 10 guest. Note: in this case you will need to install the Windows 10 virtio drivers, otherwise you can just use one of the standard emulated qemu NICs. Create the ACL file to allow user access to the bridge. As root create '/etc/qemu/bridge.conf' with the lines:
Posted on Dec 15, 2018 by kingbeowulf
The Linux Counter project shut down a few days ago. It had a good run. I'm sad to see it end, and also that it never quite developed the popularity to fully serve its purpose. Commercial / proprietary software installed base is easy to count: sales. With F/OSS it is difficult to get a true count of the number of systems running Linux distributions. Raw downloads aren't a reliable count for systems actually in use.
Wikipedia: Linux Counter
Posted on Nov 12, 2018 by kingbeowulf
I've uploaded the new nvidia-{driver,kernel}-410.73 SBo build scripts. Lots of changes, new GPU support and updates to vulkan. Be sure to check on the changelogs at nvidia.com. I also renamed the prior version nvidia-legacy390-390.87 as it is now on Nvidia's legacy branch, and the last version to support 32-bit.
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