07-24-2021, 12:32 PM
slarm64+xfce on luks+lvm = my pinebook pro
The slarm64 xfce images (on the slarm64 thread in this forum) function well: display, power, wifi, bluetooth, audio... everything smooth and snappy! Burn it to microsd, and boot. It starts at xfce-login for non root user, which has to be created first: I used cntrl-alt-f2 to switch ttys, and logged in as root (it tells you at the prompt that the root password is password)... logging in as root for the first time launches a script that creates the initial unprivileged user... Once done with that script, I switch back to the initial tty with ctrl-alt-f7, and the log in to xfce as the new user... After that it's a brief perusal of slackware documentation especially how to use slackpkg and sbopkg to install and maintain stock and third party packages and how to keep the system current. Slackware is configured by editing config files, most all of which reside in /etc, and the ones pertaining to boot and startup (runtime configurations), reside at /etc/rc.d. I have found the time and energy I spent learning slackware to be repaid immeasurably in knowledge--I used to do the same thing over and over again on computers, and now I can automate myself, mostly thanks to excellent slackware documentation... If I wasn't a slacker, I would be a gentooman, because it too has excellent documentation... but I dove deep enough into slackware to prefer it on all devices.
The slarm64 xfce images (on the slarm64 thread in this forum) function well: display, power, wifi, bluetooth, audio... everything smooth and snappy! Burn it to microsd, and boot. It starts at xfce-login for non root user, which has to be created first: I used cntrl-alt-f2 to switch ttys, and logged in as root (it tells you at the prompt that the root password is password)... logging in as root for the first time launches a script that creates the initial unprivileged user... Once done with that script, I switch back to the initial tty with ctrl-alt-f7, and the log in to xfce as the new user... After that it's a brief perusal of slackware documentation especially how to use slackpkg and sbopkg to install and maintain stock and third party packages and how to keep the system current. Slackware is configured by editing config files, most all of which reside in /etc, and the ones pertaining to boot and startup (runtime configurations), reside at /etc/rc.d. I have found the time and energy I spent learning slackware to be repaid immeasurably in knowledge--I used to do the same thing over and over again on computers, and now I can automate myself, mostly thanks to excellent slackware documentation... If I wasn't a slacker, I would be a gentooman, because it too has excellent documentation... but I dove deep enough into slackware to prefer it on all devices.