slackware

Since I wiped my main workstation/gaming PC the other day in a bout of frustration with, well, everything, I’ve been having fun OS-hopping. I have a fallback workstation that I can use for work purposes and to get me by while I’m noodling around in my main rig. My initial intention was to run OpenBSD for a few weeks to see the state of things on the desktop (I have a few devices running OpenBSD but all headless) but I ran into a weird USB storage bug. Just to see if it’s a hardware thing or an OS thing, I tried FreeBSD 15 and it was even worse.

https://www.kaidenshi.com/posts/os-hopping-in-2026/

#OpenBSD #FreeBSD #elementaryos #Slackware #distrohopping

Linux 6.19.4 Released

Linux 6.19.4 is now available as a stable update in the 6.19.x series, bringing small but important fixes across the kernel.

This release includes:

ext4 fixes
Intel graphics (i915) adjustments
NVMe improvements
Intel Wi-Fi driver updates
Minor power management refinements

On my ThinkPad T14 Gen 2 (i7-1185G7, Tiger Lake), this mainly means incremental stability improvements in graphics, storage, and power behavior.

I’ve also updated my ThinkPad X220 (used as a testing machine), and it continues to run perfectly fine on 6.19.4.

I’m building the kernel using the original SlackBuild scripts from Slackware-current’s testing tree, preserving the official packaging structure and only updating the upstream source.

Build notes are documented here:
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Slackware_Kernel_Build_Guide.txt

#slackware #kernel #thinkpad #ext4

#qemu got added to #slackware current today. Didn’t see that one coming at all. Interesting times in the land of slack!

Kernel 6.19.9 running on Slackware -current

I updated the kernel guide build.
https://git.sr.ht/~r1w1s1/code-notes/blob/main/notes/Slackware_Kernel_Build_Guide.txt

#slackware #kernel

Slackware has always been a fantastic environment for development, and officially adding QEMU 10.2.2 to -current just confirms that! 🐧

ap/qemu-10.2.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
Recompiled against libcacard-2.8.2, libslirp-4.9.1, spice-0.16.0,
and usbredir-0.15.0.
Thanks to Daedra.
ap/qemu-guest-agent-10.2.2-x86_64-2.txz: Rebuilt.
l/graphviz-14.1.4-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.
l/libcacard-2.8.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
l/usbredir-0.15.0-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
n/libslirp-4.9.1-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
Thanks to Vijay Marcel.
n/spice-0.16.0-x86_64-1.txz: Added.
Needed by qemu-10.2.2.
Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.
n/spice-protocol-0.14.5-noarch-1.txz: Added.
Needed by spice-0.16.0.
Thanks to Matteo Bernardini.

Think about it: a clean, solid base system, LXC for containers, and now native QEMU for full virtualization. Everything a developer needs, no fluff, straight from the core tree.

Slackware doesn't make noise. It just delivers. 💪

#Slackware #QEMU #Linux #Development

https://www.kindness.city/blog/2026-03-22-care.html

A bit of a ranty blog today.

I really want to write software that's actually good.

Increasingly, I believe the trick to doing this isn't #types, or #proglang , or formal methods, or #agile, or #XP, or #TDD, or any other fancy technique, process, or technology. It's Care.

And the reason most software still sucks? It's not stupidity, and it's not because everyone else has been duped by the "wrong" development ideology (waterfall, formal methods, agile, etc). It's the Market.

Here's what #openbsd , #slackware, and #emacs are teaching me about taking the time to work on what matters.