A fresh new spot for a fresh new install

kparker here. 2024-12-01.

I'm back on my 2 gig RAM laptop. It had running Slack for almost a year--no restarting. Then I decided to push FreeDOS on it--removed after a few hours. It wasn't exactly what I wanted; also, I had some issues trying to run OPENGEM--it's still cool to play with it via a second drive system.

FreeBSD didn't run smoothly as it does on my old Macbook 2011, so I decided to get back to Slack.

One thing that always sucked in this machine was the use of Journaling partition; and I remember about it only after using the system and getting the first crash. It's like: Journaling here, randomly after some time, makes the internal drive come to a read-only state. Super annoying.

The solution? I just move to use EXT2 and that's all fine. Like I said, it stood almost a year running like a charm.

My Always Go To Setup

Slackware as pretty much the default install, except KDE and Xfce series packages. Then I add these other extra packages below and I'm pretty happy and with a fully functional--low on resources--system.

• IceWM for its simplicity and all ready basic setup--batt monitor, network, clock, menu and alt+tab switch popup. I just love it.
• XFE--file manager fast, simple and blends well with IceWM. It also comes with an editor and image viewer.
• Dillo, Netsurf, Seamonkey: the first two are fast and low mem. Seamonkey works well with acceptable mem usage.
• Syncthing: to get my pass and stuff shared on my network.
• For pass manager, I'm willing to retire KeepassXC but I'm not sure about the other options yet. I've been trying Puppy's Figaro's Pass Manager. It's lightweight!--I might try pass as well.
• Extras: XNedit, ST--term, Atop--htop alike.

Finally, I needed a simple, dimmed spot on the internet to share my stuff. tilde.guru is just like that: perfect fit, solid system, interesting to play with.