[SOLVED] Why did you stop using Slackware?

mralk3 · 10-12-2018, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by montagdude

You think that's bad, try building Chromium. I'm doing it now for the first time (using Alien Bob's SlackBuild with one small additional patch) and it looks like it's going to take close to a day on my quad-core Thinkpad. I just hope the patch I made actually results in the desired behavior...

On the other hand, no one is forcing me to build this from source, but I'm glad Slackware (and Alien Bob in this case) makes it so easy to do so. The same applies to Qt5.

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Originally Posted by montagdude

Alien Bob offers a binary for Chromium, which I had installed previously, but I'm building from source now because I wanted to patch it.

Good luck. You are braver than I. I leave the larger packages for the big dogs. alienBOB must have some beastly build server to create his repos. My strongest system has a i7-4810MQ (3.8GHz turbo) with 16GB of RAM, but it's a laptop. I just don't like the idea of burning up my machine when packages are freely available for download from a trusted source.

I'm curious. What are you patching into Chromium?

montagdude · 10-12-2018, 02:53 PM

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Originally Posted by mralk3

I'm curious. What are you patching into Chromium?

I wanted to see if it was possible to permanently disable Incognito mode via source. It is more of an experiment rather than a truly useful change, because Chromium already provides a way to disable it via policy settings in /etc/chromium/policy/managed.

bassmadrigal · 10-12-2018, 04:57 PM

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Originally Posted by mralk3

alienBOB must have some beastly build server to create his repos.

He's running a Ryzen 7 1700 with 64GB of RAM and a 500GB Samsung EVO 960 NVMe drive with a 4TB WD Red.

SOURCE: https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/new...r-was-ordered/

Gerard Lally · 10-12-2018, 05:41 PM

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Originally Posted by sevendogsbsd

Good post and good points, including quoted. I "grew up" on Linux back in the Gnome 1 days and Gentoo stage 1 days. Used both for some time. After 20 years of work to get my computer to do something for me, I have opted to use a "just works" distro, not because I do not have the capability, but because when I want to use my computer to edit photos, or write, it need it to boot and work without work on my part.

How do you handle multimedia on openSUSE?

sevendogsbsd · 10-12-2018, 06:10 PM

Pacman repository has everything I need. The only real multimedia I do is streaming music. You tube in firefox works as well.

ChuangTzu · 10-12-2018, 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Gerard Lally

How do you handle multimedia on openSUSE?

https://opensuse-community.org/

montagdude · 10-12-2018, 08:36 PM

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Originally Posted by montagdude

I wanted to see if it was possible to permanently disable Incognito mode via source. It is more of an experiment rather than a truly useful change, because Chromium already provides a way to disable it via policy settings in /etc/chromium/policy/managed.

While, it didn't work, but after a 20 hour build, I don't think it's worth trying again.

sevendogsbsd · 10-12-2018, 08:52 PM

I can build for you - takes me about an hour, but will there be any library issues? I've only built for Gentoo and FreeBSD, and for the box its built on.

montagdude · 10-12-2018, 09:22 PM

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Originally Posted by sevendogsbsd

I can build for you - takes me about an hour, but will there be any library issues? I've only built for Gentoo and FreeBSD, and for the box its built on.

Thanks for the offer, but it's not a big deal. I'm just messing around anyway. It did build successfully, just the patch didn't have the desired effect. I may try one more time.

ChuangTzu · 10-13-2018, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by montagdude

Thanks for the offer, but it's not a big deal. I'm just messing around anyway. It did build successfully, just the patch didn't have the desired effect. I may try one more time.

What patch? Maybe if you link to it others can see whats up.

montagdude · 10-13-2018, 11:30 PM

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Originally Posted by birdboy

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$ uname -a
Linux darkstar 4.18.10 #1 SMP Wed Sep 26 23:19:50 CEST 2018 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-4690K CPU @ 3.50GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux

Now I'm compiling my own stripped down latest stable kernel (with the current config takes only a minute or so from scratch after mrproper) with no modules (except nvidia), without initrd, with intel microcode compiled in directly:

I have only 211 packages installed:

I've modified init rc scripts further and basically only two or three lines are printed from power on to login: prompt.

All ports are ultra minimal, only the bare minimum is compiled, all the crap is removed, just take a look:

My `ps -auxf` output fits on the single screen (24"), even with X and firefox running (username redacted):

Take a look at the firefox Pkgfile, it's the smallest I've seen to date, while being fully featured (quantum, rust etc):

I don't understand. You've got plenty of computing power, so why would you spend so much effort making your system ultra-minimal? Just for the fun of it? This is the first time I've ever heard of anyone caring about how many lines were in their ps -auxf output.

sevendogsbsd · 10-14-2018, 12:00 AM

Lol, I used to care about minimal memory usage, etc, then I realized that resources unused are wasted. Now I don't care and stopped worrying about it.

hitest · 10-14-2018, 03:21 PM

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Originally Posted by bassmadrigal

He's running a Ryzen 7 1700 with 64GB of RAM and a 500GB Samsung EVO 960 NVMe drive with a 4TB WD Red.

Just upgraded Libreoffice to 6.1.2 using his package. Very thankful for Eric's build server!

I am back to running all Slackware. I may sacrifice one unit when OpenBSD 6.4 is released. Or not.

montagdude · 10-14-2018, 04:31 PM

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Originally Posted by ChuangTzu

What patch? Maybe if you link to it others can see whats up.

It's my own patch. Like I said, I'm just messing around, not a big deal. I'll figure it out eventually if I decide to keep trying.

elcore · 10-15-2018, 03:43 AM

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Originally Posted by montagdude

While, it didn't work, but after a 20 hour build, I don't think it's worth trying again.

Someone at Gentoo forum has managed to reduce the huge compile time, recently.
I have not tried, but I've seen a few comments confirming it.