Bedlington Manor

My original version of this article was all about the problems I had using git-http-backend to make a git repository available over HTTP with authentication on a Rocky Linux 10 system.

What are Slackware tagfiles?

This is my basic guide for installing Slackware-current (x86_64) in a virtual environment using plain QEMU, covering various installation methods.

These are my notes on how to install the latest (or at least, more recent) Ansible on Slackware-current, as of September 2025.

Every few years I have to mess with software RAID again by which time I have forgotten everything I had learnt so herein lies various notes about how to do the bare minimum of RAID "stuff" that I need.

The Slackware repository includes the PACKAGES.TXT file which lists in alphabetic order all the packages in the distribution, their package set, description, and compressed and uncompressed sizes.

When working with Slackware tagfiles, you generally want to create a copy of just the tagfiles, make your modifications and then direct the installer to use your copy to determine which packages to install.

The Asus Eee PC 701 is one of the original netbook computers, released in 2007.

I imagine most people who have tried more than once to use arrays in bash have written up some syntax notes to refer back to when they inevitably forget how to use them.