Am currently in the process of trying to install #slackwarearm on my #bananapi. Hopefully it'll all go well.

#linux #slackware #foss #opensource

My #bananapi arrived today. Now all I gotta do is wait for the extras (SATA cable, SSD, SD card, USB-to-serial adapter), and I should be good to install #slackwarearm on it :)

#linux #foss #arm #slackware #opensource #sbc

In a bizarre trip down memory lane for the history of #slackware, I've successfully installed #slackwarearm 14.2 on my #raspberrypi 1B.

It's painfully slow, and not particularly practical, as I can only connect online (probably a bad idea) using ethernet […]

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Just bought a #bananapi on eBay. Gonna try #slackwarearm 15.0 on it when it arrives.

Why use a minimally-supported Slackware ARM release on pitifully underpowered 32-bit ARM hardware in the big 2025? Because.

#slackware #linux #foss #opensource #arm

Successfully managed to get #tde compiled for my #raspberrypi 4 running #slackwareaarch64. It's actually decently fast on the hardware, especially compared to regular KDE Plasma.

#slackwarearm #linux #trinitydesktop #foss #opensource

So, I'm trying to get a relatively modern #slackware #linux install on my #raspberrypi 1 model B, but the newest supported by #slackwarearm is 14.2. That's where I wanna tackle #bonslack.

Does anyone here know how to get BonSlack 15.0 installed on a Pi 1? I'm completely lost on how to do it […]

#wayland runs successfully on more things than I think some might realize. For example, I successfully got this #bananapi set up with #slackwarearm 15.0, and got my favorite #wlroots compositor, #dwl.

Big thanks to @mozes, the maintainer of Slackware ARM […]

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@mozes So now that #slackwarearm is running on Apple silicon via paravirtualization, is there any sort of roadmap towards getting it to run on bare metal? With all the work the Asahi project has put into Linux's M-series Mac support, it shouldn't be too terrible to implement. If Slackware ARM […]

Today I managed to get a much more usable browsing experience on my Raspberry Pi 4 running #slackwarearm. Switched from bloated Firefox over to nice sleek Falkon and configured my adblock lists to block out basically everything. Where on Firefox it plays sites like YT at less than 5 FPS, and […]

Managed to get #slackwarearm 12.2 running in QEMU this afternoon. This is back when the project was called #armedslack, and I managed to get pfetch working, though much like my #slackware 8.1 install from last week, I had to create my own /etc/os-release file […]

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Lately I've thought about saving up to buy an old Surface RT tablet and trying to hack #slackwarearm onto it, but with 32-bit ARM support due to be EOL after the release of #slackware 15.1, I'm not sure if it's worth the effort. There's always BonSlack, I guess. Besides, I'd probably be better […]

@mozes Just curious, does #slackwarearm 15.0 have any support for UEFI? I was hoping to try getting it installed on an old NVIDIA Tegra device that uses UEFI (on ARMv7 no less!!!), and while I'm sure the process would be a bit involved, having UEFI able to be configured out of the box would make […]

If you haven't followed my timeline, I picked up an original #bananapi BPi-M1 from 2013 with the intent to install #slackwarearm on it. That was a few months ago, and I still haven't had success. I think the problem stems from the SATA cable I bought. Upon whipping it out (my multimeter, not my […]

So, I just reinstalled #slackwarearm on my Raspberry Pi 4, this time using a nice fast SATA SSD with a USB-to-SATA adapter. It now boots in about 12 seconds compared to the 90 or so seconds from the USB HDD I was using before.

APPARENTLY, get this, the Pi is supposed to be a low-power machine […]