Alien Pastures

Comment from Sid Stautzenberger
Time September 8, 2008 at 05:55

Very good website. I’m a long time user of Slackware and I really appreciate the extra packages and scripts that you provide.
Sid

Comment from Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
Time September 13, 2008 at 08:35

It seems that more and more Slackware users are open to the public

Comment from AlienBOB
Time September 13, 2008 at 13:08

I think it is important to show people what goes on in the world of Slackware. We have a semi-closed development model here (only one person commits changes to the tree) and this is often used in discussions to show that Slackware’s development is “non-democratic”. There is no bugzilla, no mailing lists where people can interact with the development team.
So, I try to address this “ivory tower” feeling by showing more about myself and by writing about Slackware in this blog.
My posts on Linuxquestions.org and the articles in my Wiki are focused on helping people by closing the knowledge gaps. By starting a blog I try to reach out to the community in a very different way.

Thanks both of you for taking the time to comment

Eric

Comment from antler
Time February 19, 2009 at 04:15

Thank you for all your Slackware-related work, AlienBOB. Your scripts and your how-tos help me a lot. I really appreciate the time you devote to making Slackware more accessible to both new and experienced users alike.

I regard you as a pillar in the community and often think I’m using alien technology whenever I run your scripts. I don’t know how they work, I just know they work well.

So, thanks again.

antler

Comment from Cuetzpallin
Time March 4, 2009 at 22:17

Hello Eric:

Nice site, I think you are one of the Pillar of this distribution.
I follow your slackbuilds releases and also from slackbuild.org

Thank you four your time and share your knowledge.

Jose

Comment from Robby Workman
Time March 30, 2009 at 19:12

Eric, you’re my hero.

Comment from Ken
Time May 4, 2009 at 04:29

Eric,

I love the site and visit often. How can I get involved in the Slackware development process, I’d like to contribute or help if possible. I know that it’s a close knit group, any pointers?

Thanks,

Ken

Comment from alienbob
Time May 4, 2009 at 16:25

Hi Ken

Slackware has no “open development” in the sense that the core team works on Slackware in private. But input from the community is always welcome, and the core team has grown over the past years by accepting several frequent contributors of patches, packages, scripts and ideas (me included).
The best you can do as an “outsider” is install slackware-current, work with it, find bugs, solve these and submit the patches to Pat Volkerding or mention your ideas in the ##slackware channel on Freenode IRC, and join the community at http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/.
You’ve probably seen in the ChangeLog.txt that appreciation for good bugfixes is shown by mentioning the contributor in the log.

Comment from Bruce Hill
Time July 2, 2009 at 08:35

Eric,

If it weren\’t for you, we probably would have gone back to … the darkside. Thanks for your help all these years, and for opening up the World of Slackware to us.

You have truly given sacrificially, without asking for anything in return … and often not getting it. Did Robby even buy you a meal in Brazil?

Best regards,
Bruce

Comment from John
Time September 27, 2009 at 21:07

Hi Eric,

Just added the compat libraries to my Slackware system, following your instructions – all went well! Thanks for that.

I do have a problem though: It seems that there is no provision to update /etc/pango/pango.modules. This files is updated on reboot (I think), and contains only links to the 64 bit modules for Pango.

The net result is that Google Earth won’t install (maybe others too), as this installer uses 32 bit packages.

Did you ever stumble over this problem?

Again, thanks for the 32 bit instructions.

Comment from alienbob
Time September 27, 2009 at 22:54

Hi John

If you have an up-to-date Slackware64 13.0 you should find that the boot script “/etc/rc.d/rc.M” calls “update-pango-querymodules”. That script regognizes a multilib setup ad will update the pango modules for i486 as well as x86_64 architectures.
You should be aware that the 32bit directory in Slackware 13.0 is now “/etc/pango/i486/pango.modules”. Did you merge all the *.new files (in case you did an upgrade instead of a fresh install)?

Comment from Norton Luiz
Time November 1, 2009 at 08:49

Hi, Eric

Good job on slackware and i hope long years with project.

Comment from jaredan
Time November 6, 2009 at 12:55

Hello Eric,

I just wanted to drop by and say thank you very much with the great work on Slackware. The new computers are starting to ship with x86_64 by default and I really don’t know what would’ve happen without you. Please keep up the great work!

Comment from gar0t0
Time November 15, 2009 at 08:03

Hi Eric,

thank you for all scripts and packages, You make a great work on slackware and the community

Thanks you
gar0t0

Comment from sid wilroy
Time November 18, 2009 at 15:57

Thanks a ton for your contributions on linuxquestions.org – I had a sendmail issue and your advice fixed it…

Comment from rogue_coder
Time November 18, 2009 at 19:00

Your article on a multilib setup for Slackware64 was great!

Comment from sassybax
Time November 27, 2009 at 07:32

AlienBOB, you kinda look like the Mac guy.

Comment from John H
Time December 12, 2009 at 20:50

Thank you for doing an absolutely fantastic job with your multilib setup! Apart from a few minor problems – because I hadn’t RTFMed carefully enough, it was a breeze getting it set up.
Do you still use rsnapshot for your backups? I have been looking at the backup solutions out there, and to say I am more than a little confused is an understatement!
Once again thank you for all your efforts to make Slackware the great distro it is!

Comment from jaredan
Time December 24, 2009 at 11:35

Thank you for the multilib setup tutorial for slackware64 but I wish it would be enabled by default. Seems to be a lot of trouble for some odd reason in not including it since most of us would need it anyway.

Comment from alienbob
Time December 24, 2009 at 15:49

Hi Jaredan

Slackware64 is, and will probably remain, a pure 64-bit distribution. We took good care to make it easy adding 32-bit support on top (i.e. make it multilib).
If you really can not do without 32-bit software, perhaps the “normal” 32-bit Slackware would be better for you?

Cheers, Eric

Comment from phrag
Time December 31, 2009 at 14:17

nice site mate, keep up the good work =)

Comment from tim (timsoft)
Time February 10, 2010 at 17:42

the links on the right hand side on your blog all show a tool-tip saying they were created in 1970. – i presume this is a default 0 for the date value, so thought i’d mention it in case it is considered a bug.

Comment from Sub
Time February 15, 2010 at 20:21

Hello AlienBOB and thanks for the great work you’ve done!

Right now I’m playing with KDE 4.4.0 and just found that the kio_sftp is not compiled. I searched the Internet and found this http://forum.kde.org/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=84694&start=0 :
“It is possible that libssh was not available when your distribution configured and built the KDE 4.4 Beta packages.”

Is it possible to be added in a future package build?

Thanks,
Sub

Comment from neuronos
Time February 20, 2010 at 10:17

Salut AlienBOB ! Salve Slakware !

i’m from Romania
i try live slax, zenwalk, mint, kiwi and installed ubuntu !
Those build on Slakware i like the most !
It work so fast even on USB much faster than ubuntu on hard drive !
I’m a neuro-null and i was not able to instal a persistant firewall, IM, VoIP on live distributin based on Slakware !

Cu respect !