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Slackware Demystified
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Slackware DemystifiedVincent Batts
@vbattsSoutheast Linux Fest
June 11, 2011
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What to talk about ?
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Smidgens
Philosophy
Services
Configurations
Packages
Kernels
Community
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Smidgens
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First, Some Thanks!
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To All Yall
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<3
<3
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slackware linux
volkerdi
& rest of the team
(alienBob, rworkman, Alan_Hicks,fred,
PiterPunk, alphageek,
mrgoblin, Mozes, karlmag)
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<3
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Trivia:Why was there a pi Release Candidate?
(for 13.37)
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Trivia:Who is the guy smoking the pipe?
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Who has runSlackware Linux?
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slackware linuxit is old
it is stable
it is cultist
(not really) :)
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Next$ whoamivbatts
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Shade tree Linux Nerd
Slackware Crew
since summer of 2009
Primary distractions are Ruby andKDE
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Day Job
We are hiring!
akamai.com/careers
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Contact
vbatts@
slackware.com
hashbangbash.com
akamai.com
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Philosophy
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Keep It SimpleIf it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Lack of "here, let me help you with that"and no magic
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Stick with Upstream./configure && make && make install
essentially
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Shell
startup scripts
package management
(no magic)
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Learning to LearnGet comfortable reading man pages
and the difference in their sections.
Validate bugs against STOCK Slackware, before submittingan issue
Build out your protocol for investigating.
SRSLY, make an effort to ask educated questions
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Services
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init(sysvinit)Age old,
tried and true
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Trivia:Default runlevel?
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/etc/inittab
1: single user
3: multiple user (default)
4: X11 with KDM/XDM/GDM
2,5: "unused", but setup same as 3
0: halt
6: reboot
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/etc/rc.d/rc.*
rc.S - system initialization
rc.K - single user
rc.M - Multi user (3,4)
rc.4 - X11
rc.0 - shutdown
rc.6 - reboot
rc.inet1 - various networking (see rc.inet1.conf)
rc.inet2 - network system (sshd, nfs, rpc, cifs, etc.)
rc.wireless - ... wireless setup (see rc.wireless.conf)
rc.sysvinit - to support /etc/init.d and the /etc/rc[0123456].d/*structure
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local startups
rc.local
Trivia: Where else?
rc.local_shutdown
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gist of the rc.local(and a lot of the rc.{M,S} )
if [ -x /etc/rc.d/rc.foo ] ; then . /etc/rc.d/rc.foo startfi
/sbin/modprobe acpi-cpufreqecho "level auto" > /proc/acpi/ibm/fan
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Configurations
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Upstream
(again)
There is not a shimmed in OSabstraction.
--sysconfdir=/etc
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the few, the proud/etc/rc.d/rc.*.conf
rc.inet1.conf
rc.wireless.conf
rc.bluetooth.conf
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Boot Loader
Trivia: What bootloader is used?
lilo(8)
lilo.conf(5)
mkinitrd(8)
mkinitrd.conf(5)
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*.new files$ slackpkg new-config
Searching for NEW configuration files
[...]
$ find /etc/ -type f -name '*.new'/etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf.new/etc/httpd/httpd.conf.new/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-default.conf.new/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-userdir.conf.new/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-autoindex.conf.new/etc/httpd/extra/httpd-ssl.conf.new
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Packages
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Counts
core: 936 pkgs ( + 82 kde l10n )
/extra: ~21 pkgs
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Slackbuilds.org Countsunofficial
+2600 pkgs
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Package StructureA compressed tar ball of the file tree relative to '/'
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Package "meta" data/install/slack-desc
/install/doinst.sh
TRIVIA: What else can be used (in stock Slackare)?
/var/log/setup/setup.$PKGNAME
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Toolspkgtool(8)
makepkg(8)
explodepkg(8)
installpkg(8)
removepkg(8)
upgradepkg(8)
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Package data storage
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/var/log/packages/ & /var/log/scripts/
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removed_packages/ & removed_scripts/
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X
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To X, or not to X
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Robust Command Line Installation
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$ xmwconfig
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$ startx
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Kernels
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No patching ** Apart from CVEs or a blocker regression
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huge & generic
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Shared *.ko modules
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hacking(because people do it)
$REPO/testing/
/usr/src/linux
/proc/config.gz
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Build your own$ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.0/testing/linux-3.0-rc2.tar.bz2[...]$ tar jxf linux-3.0-rc2.tar.bz2$ cd linux-3.0-rc2$ zcat /proc/config.gz > .config$ make oldconfig[...]$ make CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h[...]
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WARNING!!1!one!
do NOT report issues, until
you validate it against a stockinstallation.
Even if you don't think it's kernelrelated
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Community
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Where is it?
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People
IRC - Freenode ##slackware
Usenet - alt.os.linux.slackware (AOLS)
Forum
linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/
Mailing Lists
Discussion - mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/slackware
AOLS Off Topic - wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/mailman/listinfo/slackware-ot/
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Additional Packages
slackbuilds.org/
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Bug Tracking?
Nothing Formal
Emails to the team, and forums
Not much in the OS interferes
Most reports go straight upstream
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Recap
K.I.S.S
(Keep It Simple, S<word>)
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Questions?
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Linksslackware.com/ - ... Slackware!
slackbuilds.org/ - Community contributed packages
slackware.com/~vbatts/2011_SELF/ - This Talk
akamai.com/careers - Akamai Jobs
github.com/schacon/showoff - what this slide deck is using
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