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Posted on Jun 17, 2019 by kingbeowulf
On the Lenovo T510 laptop I use to track and test Slackware-current, everything I've played with has been good so far. About a week ago, after another kernel update (4.19.48 and .49), the wifi kept dropping off when using Network Manager via the KDE network applet in the systray. Wired connectivity was fine. I at first though the Netgear R7000 router was gimpy since I had just updated it's firmware as well. The laptop would drop the connection after a few hours, and DHCP would take several minutes, if it connected at all. Usually, '/etc/rc.d/rc.networkmanager restart' (or stop, start) would fix the issue for a while. However, other devices (phones, tablets, Slackware-14.2...) remained connected with no issues. Using the command line nmcli and nmtui worked with no connectivity issues for several days. There has been another kernel update, and I haven't tried Xfce yet.
UPDATE: Looks like the updates from last week (kernel 4.19.51 now) seemed to fix this odd Network manager applet glitch.
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
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