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   Monkey J. Tsubo (tsubocchi@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:14:49 JST Monkey J. Tsubo

   • the_daikon_warfare
   @sicp You know what would be a good idea? Dual booting one systemd-less distro with another! GRUB exists for a reason, y'know? If I want to use Void, I could do that. If I want to use Slackware, the ol' reliable since '93, I could go right ahead and shove it onto a seperate SSD. Thanks for the suggestion, guujyon!
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 19:14:48 JST 翠星石

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     • the_daikon_warfare
     @tsubocchi @sicp That is a proprietary distro though?
     
     Not that I use it, but systemd is at least free software.
     
     Slackware is nonfree too; https://www.gnu.org/distros/common-distros.html#Slackware
     
     There is of course a freed version called freenix.
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     翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 19:46:14 JST 翠星石

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     • the_daikon_warfare
     @sicp @tsubocchi >if it used to have xv it doesn't anymore
     It is still there; https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-15.0/extra/xv/
     
     It appears xv is shipped in the base install, making slackware proprietary and how you have to manually compile it is irrelevant.
     
     >GRUB is a PITA to set up correctly
     GRUB just werks on my machines.
     
     I just need to run `grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg
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     the_daikon_warfare (sicp@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 25-Nov-2024 19:46:15 JST the_daikon_warfare

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     @tsubocchi I always just used LILO since it's what the Slackware installer recommends and it works (it gives you both options), whereas GRUB is a PITA to set up correctly.