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https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/slpkg/
https://dslackw.gitlab.io/slpkg/
https://git.slackbuilds.org/
SlackBuilds.org
A Slackware source-based package manager.
Easy to use.
NOTE – you don’t have to have slpkg installed to compile a SlackBuild-supported program from source.
slpkgDon’t mistake this for the movie Alien – (1979 movie)
(on Wikipedia)
https://joeyh.name/code/alien/
A tool to convert between package management types.
Mandatory for getting software working which does not have a maintainer for one’s current distribution.
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https://wiki.syslinux.org/wiki/index.php?title=Isohybrid
Though it can do other stuff, I use this to edit ISO images meant to be burned to a CD or DVD, to make them appropriate for copying to, and booting from, a USB stick.
Phenomenal. I wish I knew about this a long time ago. I’ve ignored many Linux distributions because of the very issue this tool solves.
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Linux distributions + Debian >
https://launchpad.net/~yannubuntu/+archive/ubuntu/boot-repair
https://sourceforge.net/p/boot-repair/home/Home/
Automagically repairs a boot loader.
This is something I wish I had/knew about a long time ago. I’ve had bootloader misadventures that really stressed me out.
I’ll accept this, even though it uses systemd.
See also:
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Linux distributions + Gentoo >
(on Wikipedia)
https://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=systemrescue
https://www.system-rescue.org/ [ 1 ] was https://www.system-rescue-cd.org/
A Linux distribution. A Linux system rescue disk.
I’m sure an updated version will use systemd, as Gentoo now does.
Footnotes
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(on Wikipedia)
https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/
A ubiquitous byte-copying tool.
I use this for copying disks, partitions and ISOs.
Part of GNU’s “coreutils”
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Entertainment > Movies >
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4085502/
A pair of scientists learn they can push electrons back in time and can send emails.
Calm, enthralling, and deeply moving. This movie does all the right things with science fiction and time travel. It keeps the core values of the characters, lets things make just enough sense to have the audience both engaged, confused and planning ahead, and has a romantic streak to it.
Highly recommended!
This movie is entirely in the Dutch language.
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Entertainment > Movies >
(on Wikipedia)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3042408/
A young, broken, man, enters an underground community of computer crackers, trying desperately to prove himself but with consequences.
An extremely good movie. While not quite mandatory, it’s definitely a proper advancement of the “hacker kid” movies that have sullied past movies. Highly recommended, even for people that “know their stuff”, as it doesn’t lay on the techno-babble which describes everything painfully wrong. Instead, it takes a reasonable middle ground, staying away from pop culture and fairly-firmly on the social side of storytelling.
See also Fight Club – (1999 movie)
TODO – make a proper page
TODO – add my notes
Software >
was https://archive.codeplex.com/?p=hddguardian
A windows GUI which uses the smartctl backend.
Abandoned – Website gone, archive gone.
