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how does it hold up today?
I can't speak for Slackware itself but Unraid is based on Slackware and has been very successful. I've been running it for several years now with few hiccups.
On slackware-current. Latest kde, mesa, fairly new lts kernel. All vanilla software (with security patches). Xfce, and more. No official gnome. Everything works, simple system. No official package dependency resolution, install a lot of packages recommended (they in groups). Good for me.
Edit: oh, and very stable
I have an intel arc 380 gpu, i know slackware current has preconfigured kernel. I havent tried building my own kernel but would it be easier using preconfigured or just build it?
I know intel arc requires 6.2 kernel as the driver and i believe mesa 22(or newer) .
Current has mesa 23.1.3 and kernel 6.1.
Been a while since i built a kernel. Way i did it was (as root):
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.4.3.tar.xzfor example)cd /usr/src/andtar xvf the-downloaded-tarballrm linux- it's a link to kernel source, so that programs can compile against the kernel (rarely necessary)ln -s linux-downloaded-one linux- makes new link to downloaded kernelcp linux-installed-kernel/.config linux/- copy the old config to the newcd linuxthenmake oldconfig- a lot of questions about all the new options, that should include the new arc drivers if they are not included into old onesmake menuconfigormake nconfig- are TUI-s to configure the kernel. nconfig has a search (F8)make bzImage modules- to compile the kernel and modules (basically shared libs)make modules_install- copies modules to /lib/modules/version (important as most drivers are modules)cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-version- copy the kernel core to /boot/etc/lilo.conf- if you use grub then idkimage = ..., keep the original to have a bootable kernel/boot/vmlinuzto whatever i called mineNot the official slackware way, but.. actually slack is the slackware way. Have borked my system plenty of times and had to dig up the install cd/usb to fix it.
There is documentation on slackbook http://www.slackbook.org/html/system-configuration-kernel.html but it's a bit outdated. You can always ask questions on the official forum https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/
For all other questions see this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt9MP70ODNw
Many thanks for this, ill be going through this thouroughly to see about getting this running. This is huge help thanks again.
Give the live os a spin-up https://slackware.nl/slackware-live/