I think it is a mistake of someone in slackware team. I hope they will understand it and correct it.

LibreOffice 24.2.1 package for x86_64 and i586 is on Slackel repos along with x86_64 and i686 lang and help packages. LibreOffice 24.2.1 need gcc-12 and newer versions of gcc to build. So because i build it on slackel it will not run on salix. It will run on Slackware current. You also need to insta...

man dir_colors
less /etc/DIR_COLORS
less /etc/shell-colors
less /etc/profile.d/coreutils-dircolors.sh

I agree. I use openbox. Mate is much heavier. Previous slackel mate version released 4 years ago. This mate release made because previous mate version it was out of date and could not run anymore.

It is in Italian, but auto translate works surprisingly well. I actually didn't know SUSE was initially based on Slackware. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/SUSE_Linux The second linux i used was suse 4.2 i think when i bought a cd disk from papasotiriou in Athens. The first linux was redhat 5.0. I ...

This video is an overview of Slackware and its main derivatives. Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993 and was originally based on the Softlanding Linux System (or SLS). It has since been the basis for many other distros, most notably the early versions of SUSE. To this day, Slackware ...

Did you install mariadb? sudo slapt-get -i mariadb Create the default mysql databases: mysql_install_db --user=mysql Start the mysql server: sudo service restart mysqld Create password for mysql root user: /usr/bin/mysqladmin -u root password '??????????' (replace ???? with your password to use) Sta...

Just a question: why not connect the device before booting? Maybe scanning the devices occurred before you connected it this it was recognized soon enough by udev? Just a speculation... I tried this too, during my week of trials. Connect the device before boot then boot on boot menu and from there ...