why slackware why thinkpad
because it's there!
Slackware was the first linux operating system I came across as I found a book with slackware 7.0 in a discount bin at a book store. I tore my hair out trying to get it to work till I finally worked out that there was a problem with the CD that came with the book (which seemed to be not much more then a description of man pages). Yep it does not help when the core libraries fail to load because there is a problem reading the media CD. For some reason I chose to keep tearing my hair out and stayed with slackware. Considering the hardware I am planning to run it on, I am happy that I can build up a low bloat desktop environment.
The thinkpad as it was there, once bought as a cheap secondhand laptop, it is the only computer that I have access to play with. I have no justification to get anything new and for what I plan to use it for my argument is that it should be satisfactory.
The aim is to use it as a travel, scripting and experimentation PC and if I use it enough to justify that I would use a laptop. I will expand on the requirements in more details as I confront them but basicly it is something along the lines of:
I am a perl programmer by trade. I am keen to get more involved in open source development and the documentation of installing slackware on my laptop may just be a start. I hope I this helps anyone else who wants to run a basic, no frills laptop.
Slackware was the first linux operating system I came across as I found a book with slackware 7.0 in a discount bin at a book store. I tore my hair out trying to get it to work till I finally worked out that there was a problem with the CD that came with the book (which seemed to be not much more then a description of man pages). Yep it does not help when the core libraries fail to load because there is a problem reading the media CD. For some reason I chose to keep tearing my hair out and stayed with slackware. Considering the hardware I am planning to run it on, I am happy that I can build up a low bloat desktop environment.
The thinkpad as it was there, once bought as a cheap secondhand laptop, it is the only computer that I have access to play with. I have no justification to get anything new and for what I plan to use it for my argument is that it should be satisfactory.
The aim is to use it as a travel, scripting and experimentation PC and if I use it enough to justify that I would use a laptop. I will expand on the requirements in more details as I confront them but basicly it is something along the lines of:
- travel PC: blogging, temporary photo downloading, basic internet surfing and email some media content like internet radio
- scripting: some basic programming with perl, python, java and access to an IDE like eclipse although understandably the performance may be limited
- experimentation: sound recording, radio scanner control and recording, timelapse photography
- laptop justification: documents, email, web, database (MSAccess like), run tax pack in wine, to justify to myself that my next PC can be linux on a laptop.
I am a perl programmer by trade. I am keen to get more involved in open source development and the documentation of installing slackware on my laptop may just be a start. I hope I this helps anyone else who wants to run a basic, no frills laptop.
posted by veggiedogs at 10:33 PM
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