Youtube-dl: Download Videos from the Command Line

Try youtube-dl to download videos to hard drive and watch them later when not connected. It uses the MIT licence. Youtube-dl is a command l...Read more »

Adding LXDE to Slackware 13.37

Slackware does not come with LXDE on the CD/DVD so how do you get it? The hard way is to go to Slackbuilds.org and do a search. This will co...Read more »

Compiling the Kernel in Slackware

One of the reasons why I chose Slackware is that the kernel and other included software is presented vanilla and unpatches, as intended by t...Read more »

Building Chromium for Slackware64

Chromium, the browser, can sometimes seem a bit evasive on the Slackware64 platform. For a start, the binaries more commonly distributed are...Read more »

From ArchBang to SlackBang

If you looked at the ArchBang website over the last few days you would have read that founder WillXtreme is retiring from the project leader...Read more »

Step-by-Step Vinux 3.2.1 Install Guide

The Vinux distribution has been optimized for users to be able to operate a computer, surf the internet etc. all via text to speech tools an...Read more »

Overclock Your New and Cheaply Bought HP Touchpad

If you were one of the lucky, or organized, people to get a HP webOS tablets for £89/£99 respectively for the 16 and 32 GB editions. here...Read more »

Using Tor to View Restricted Video Sites Internationally

How many times have you been stuck in another country unable to watch your favorite shows and channels? Or perhaps you don't reside ther...Read more »

How to Enable Broadcom Wireless on Slackware 13.37

This one has got a lot easier over the last releases. There is now a build script on slackbuilds.org that allows you to build a package wit...Read more »

Prettyfying Your LXDE

LXDE , the Lightweight X11 desktop environment, has gained quite a following over recent years seemingly coming from nowhere, and many distr...Read more »

Beautifying the Xfce Desktop

Regular readers will know Xfce is one of my favorite environments, and the one I have been using for the longest period of time, since earl...Read more »

Arch Linux: How to Make Resume from Hibernate Work

I usually don't use the Hibernate function much, but lately I have been wondering why it was that my Arch installation did not resume fr...Read more »

Installing LXDE on Slackware & Salix 13.37

Slackware 13.37 is out. So what do you do if you need or want a light weight desktop environment for an old machine and LXDE is your favorit...Read more »

Linux Mint: Getting Debian via the Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) - and making it more Debian-like

A couple of weeks ago I decided I needed to have at least one copy of all the major branches of Linux distributions on this laptop, if only ...Read more »

How to Change the Default Theme in SLiM (Login Manager)

Archbang and a few others use SLiM , the Simple Login Manager, by default, which keeps things lean because SLiM does not have the dependency...Read more »

How to add Broadcom 43xx wireless to Scientific Linux 5.5

This one is a bit more involved than getting Broadcom wireless support in Fedora 14, but not that hard either. It should also be valid for C...Read more »

How to add Broadcom 43xx wireless to Fedora 14

This one is easy, I've never had to do so little fiddling and searching: Go to http://rpmfusion.org/ and add both the free and the non-...Read more »

How to get Ralink 2870 wireless USB adapter working in SalixOS/Slackware-13.1

This one has taken me quite a while to find out, with bits of information here and there. Two steps only: Blacklist rt2800usb in your /etc/m...Read more »

How to install ATI graphics driver in SalixOS

I'm not planning to copy the entire SalixOS user  documentation  or  FAQ's , only what's of practical interest as it comes up. ...Read more »

How to upgrade SalixOS 13.0 to 13.1

This is a short guide on how to upgrade your SalixOS to the latest version, 13.1. I'm mirroring the instructions here in case it gets l...Read more »