I ended up reinstalling, this time without the KDE sets and switching to using FVWM. While KDE is 'nice', I come from using OpenBSD with cwm, so I'm used to my X environment staying out of the way.

For the curious, the old laptop I'm using is my Lenovo X220, or what I consider to be the last laptop with a truly great keyboard.

Building Linux kernel 6.19.3 on Slackware using Patrick's official SlackBuilds, starting from my 6.18.13 config as a base.

-> 6.19 brings some nice ext4 improvements that caught my attention:

• Support for block sizes larger than page size (can improve buffered write performance in some workloads)
• Faster online defragmentation using folios instead of legacy buffer heads
• Smarter POSIX ACL caching, avoiding redundant permission checks on files without ACLs

Let's see how it goes! 🤞
#slackware #kernel #linux

Two things I noticed right off: no systemd (or related dependencies) anywhere in sight, and LILO.
I've always been irritated by the systemd-ification of the linux ecosystem, so it's always nice when I don't see it, and I've never really understood how to work with GRUB, so LILO is really appreciated!

@rl_dane @EF @spaceraser @peteorrall

Because, if you want a Linux distro that has the attitude of a #BSD, #Slackware is for you. It's simple and use a BSD style init script and does not modify any packages; the software is practically all sourced from upstream.

It is no coincidence that it is defined as the most BSD of the distros :-) (practically the oldest).

Oldest Active #Linux Distro #Slackware Finally Releases Version 15.0

https://m.slashdot.org/story/452436