Back with slackk13 ;)

I recently installed the Slackware 13 (as my Slackware 12.2 failed to resist my experiments :) ).Though the installation went easy but the successful run of the Slackware 13 was not easy.When the installation was complete first problem I encountered was startx showed me my XFCE screen & then hangs.The reason was that intel 82865 chipset does not work with standard Slackware 13.0 .So everyone out there with Intel 8 series graphics dont leave Slackware 13 cause you can’t run X within it.You just need to follow the post instructions(OR better update your system with current).

The solution is to compile a stable kernel.I used 2.6.32-rc5 and 2.6.32 and zen kernel patches(version mentioned in the post).
The kernel 2.6.32-rc5 showed errors regarding kthread.c.it had element ‘rt’ undefined in method kthread_bind() did a lot of reverse engineering and came to the conclusion that kernel 2.6.32.rc5 is buggy & then used a stable kernel 2.6.32 which ran successfully.
After all done I started X using startx I get Qt errors gooogling gave me reasons about that too.I found Qt too needs to be upgraded to Qt-4.5.
The best solution being the upgrade-all packages:

do slackpkg update
slackpkg install-new
slackpkg upgrade-all
slackpkg clean-system
check and make sure that kernel 2.6.32-5-smp is installed along with kernel firmware kernel modules kernel headers and kernel sourc

Have fun! :^) I hope you find Slackware to be useful.
Saurabh Nigam

Open Source Maemo

So here is one of a very strong mobile platform

Maemo

Maemo has utilized various open source projects such as the Linux kernel, Debian, and GNOME.
It derives its UI from GNOME
& lastly it is an open source mobile platform by

NOKIA!!!

Roddickk Won it!

must say Roddick was playing awesome welll in Wimbledon 2009>Though I couldn't catch live video of the match but was tracking the complete match via Radio Wimbledon(Thanks to IBM Slamtracker)


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Image courtesy:www.ruggedelegantliving.com

Month Of Opportunities

This month has come up with a lot of opportunities for the ethusiasts.
The first is the chance to win a JavaOne Conference pass (San Fransisco)
& Second is the 10 Great Ideas initiative organized by IIT Bombay with a prize money of 50 lac.

So All The Best.
http://java.sun.com/javaone

See ya there at ./a.in