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Just a fun thread for people to share the specs of any machines they
have running Slackware.

I personally have two machines running Slackware at the moment:

Lenovo ThinkPad X260
- Intel Core i5 6300U (4) @ 3GHz
- Intel HD Graphics 520 integrated GPU
- 8GB RAM (hoping to upgrade to 32 at some point)
- 256GB SATA SSD (hoping to upgrade to 2TB at some point)

Raspberry Pi 4B
- Broadcom BCM2711 Cortex-A72 ARMv8 SoC (4) @1.8GHz
- 4GB RAM
- 1TB external USB HDD (very slow but does its job)

What specs do you have?
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On 16.12.2024 18:26 Uhr TronNerd82 wrote:

Just a fun thread for people to share the specs of any machines they
have running Slackware.

Currently only one.

Thinkpad X40
Pentium M 1.6
1.5 GiB
Extreme Graphics 2
40 GB HDD
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inxi -Fxz
System:
Kernel: 6.11.3 arch: x86_64 bits: 64 compiler: gcc v: 2.43.1-slack151
Desktop: LabWC v: N/A Distro: Slackware 15.0+
Machine:
Type: Desktop System: LENOVO product: 90H1000FUS v: ideacentre 720-18ASU
serial: <superuser required>
Mobo: LENOVO model: 3100 v: SDK0J40700 WIN 3258086393350
serial: <superuser required> UEFI: LENOVO v: O38KT20A date: 06/09/2017 Battery:
Device-1: ps-controller-battery-84:17:66:0b:d2:af model: N/A charge: N/A
status: full
CPU:
Info: quad core model: AMD Ryzen 5 1400 bits: 64 type: MT MCP arch: Zen
rev: 1 cache: L1: 384 KiB L2: 2 MiB L3: 8 MiB
Speed (MHz): avg: 1375 min/max: 1550/3200 boost: enabled cores: 1: 1375
2: 1375 3: 1375 4: 1375 5: 1375 6: 1375 7: 1375 8: 1375 bogomips: 51101
Flags: avx avx2 ht lm nx pae sse sse2 sse3 sse4_1 sse4_2 sse4a ssse3 Graphics:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland [Radeon HD 8570 / R5 430
OEM R7 240/340 Radeon 520 OEM] vendor: Bitland Information driver: amdgpu
v: kernel arch: GCN-1 bus-ID: 09:00.0 temp: 46.0 C
Device-2: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 1-1.1:4
Display: wayland server: X.org v: 1.21.1.14 with: Xwayland v: 24.1.4
compositor: LabWC driver: X: loaded: amdgpu,modesetting unloaded: vesa
dri: radeonsi gpu: amdgpu resolution: 1920x1080~60Hz
API: EGL v: 1.5 drivers: kms_swrast,radeonsi,swrast platforms:
active: gbm,wayland,x11,surfaceless,device inactive: N/A
API: OpenGL v: 4.6 vendor: amd mesa v: 24.3.1 glx-v: 1.4
direct-render: yes renderer: AMD Radeon R7 200 Series (radeonsi oland LLVM
19.1.5 DRM 3.59 6.11.3)
API: Vulkan v: 1.3.290 drivers: N/A surfaces: xcb,xlib,wayland devices: 2 Audio:
Device-1: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD/ATI] Oland/Hainan/Cape Verde/Pitcairn
HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7000 Series] vendor: Bitland Information
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 09:00.1
Device-2: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] Family 17h HD Audio vendor: Lenovo
driver: snd_hda_intel v: kernel bus-ID: 12:00.3
Device-3: Logitech HD Webcam C525 driver: snd-usb-audio,uvcvideo type: USB
bus-ID: 1-1.1:4
API: ALSA v: k6.11.3 status: kernel-api
Server-1: EsounD v: 0.2.41 status: off
Server-2: JACK v: 1.9.20 status: off
Server-3: PipeWire v: 1.2.7 status: off
Server-4: PulseAudio v: 17.0 status: active
Network:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8111/8168/8211/8411 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
vendor: Lenovo driver: r8169 v: kernel port: f000 bus-ID: 01:00.0
IF: eth0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
Device-2: Realtek RTL8821AE 802.11ac PCIe Wireless Network Adapter
vendor: Lenovo driver: rtl8821ae v: kernel port: e000 bus-ID: 02:00.0
IF: wlan0 state: up mac: <filter>
IF-ID-1: br0 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: unknown mac: <filter>
IF-ID-2: macvlan0 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-3: tap0 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-4: tap1 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-5: tap10 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-6: tap11 state: unknown speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-7: tap2 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-8: tap3 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-9: tap4 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-10: tap5 state: up speed: 10000 Mbps duplex: full mac: <filter>
IF-ID-11: tap6 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-12: tap7 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-13: tap8 state: down mac: <filter>
IF-ID-14: tap9 state: down mac: <filter>
Bluetooth:
Device-1: Realtek RTL8821A Bluetooth driver: btusb v: 0.8 type: USB
bus-ID: 1-1.3:7
Report: hciconfig ID: hci0 rfk-id: 1 state: up bt-service: not found
rfk-block: hardware: no software: no address: <filter> bt-v: 4.0 lmp-v: 6 Drives:
Local Storage: total: 931.51 GiB used: 334.9 GiB (36.0%)
ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Western Digital model: WD10EZEX-08WN4A0
size: 931.51 GiB temp: 36.0 C
Partition:
ID-1: / size: 491.96 GiB used: 196.06 GiB (39.9%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda2
ID-2: /boot/efi size: 256 MiB used: 17.4 MiB (6.8%) fs: vfat
dev: /dev/sda1
ID-3: /home size: 199.9 GiB used: 132.57 GiB (66.3%) fs: xfs
dev: /dev/sda3
Swap:
ID-1: swap-1 type: partition size: 31.26 GiB used: 0 KiB (0.0%)
dev: /dev/sda5
ID-2: swap-2 type: zram size: 7.71 GiB used: 1.61 GiB (20.8%)
dev: /dev/zram0
Sensors:
System Temperatures: cpu: 43.9 C mobo: N/A gpu: amdgpu temp: 46.0 C
Fan Speeds (rpm): N/A
Info:
Memory: total: 8 GiB available: 7.71 GiB used: 2.56 GiB (33.2%)
Processes: 28 Uptime: 29d 2h 54m Init: SysVinit runlevel: 3
Packages: 1741 Compilers: clang: 19.1.5 gcc: 14.2.0 Shell: fish v: 3.7.1
inxi: 3.3.36
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TronNerd82 wrote:

Just a fun thread for people to share the specs of any machines they
have running Slackware.

I personally have two machines running Slackware at the moment:

Lenovo ThinkPad X260
- Intel Core i5 6300U (4) @ 3GHz
- Intel HD Graphics 520 integrated GPU
- 8GB RAM (hoping to upgrade to 32 at some point)
- 256GB SATA SSD (hoping to upgrade to 2TB at some point)

Raspberry Pi 4B
- Broadcom BCM2711 Cortex-A72 ARMv8 SoC (4) @1.8GHz
- 4GB RAM
- 1TB external USB HDD (very slow but does its job)

What specs do you have?

I have a no-name machine I originally put together in mid-2013 as a Windows workstation. AMD A10-5800K @ 1.4GHz, onboard graphics, 16GB RAM (max
supported by the motherboard, else I'd put in more), ~12TB across 5 spinning disk HDDs, primary use is headless file & media server. It's on its way out; growing hardware issues. (My goal when putting it together was literally
just "can play Fallout: New Vegas". That's it.)

I also have an old WinXP-era IBM ThinkPad running Salix (based on Slack). Stats are ??? because I almost never turn it on. (1GB RAM is all that comes
to mind right now, and it's a 32-bit CPU, not 64-bit.) It multiboots with eComStation (OS/2) and FreeDOS but those are only used for very specific purposes.

I ran Slack (among other things) on my 2007 iMac for a few years, but I put MacOS back on it a while ago. Shrug.

My RPi4 runs either an old version of Raspbian or RiscOS, depending on which SD card I boot from. My 2014 Mac Mini is running OpenBSD from a USB stick because the HDD died and I don't feel like cracking the case open to swap it out. My G4 multiboots a few versions of MacOS, but I'm considering adding Yellow Dog and/or some other things. My G5 will probably run MacOS if I ever get around to fixing it, possibly multibooting with non-Mac OS's.

Everything else I have -- my workstation and other laptops and tablets --
all run Windows for work (and because I'm lazy).

(Don't knock MacOS; it's BSD under the hood.)

And yes, I use all of those. Yes, even the 22-year-old Mac G4, and the 1997 Sony Vaio running Win95 (it doesn't exactly see a lot of use, but I occasionally have work-related tests that require a DOS machine with a DB9 serial port, and sometimes I want to use a physical machine rather than a
VM).
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

Just a fun thread for people to share the specs of any machines they
have running Slackware.

@home
[1,2,3] custom builds a while back, does the job for me, 8G ram, core i7
9700 3Ghz... although they run 15, too many things I need on my daily
desktop wont build now, so are considering my options.
(1 is daily driver, other 2 are home file servers)

[4] cheapy HP laptop, dual boots 15 with win10, gutless, but does what i
need when i'm on holidays so meh...

[5] olden days thinkcentre, i5, just runs asterisk at home to thwart
those vermin indians telling me my internet/amazon_prime/netflix will be
cut off if I dont pay my bill or I'll be arrested if I dont pay my
mysterious speed camera fine that can magically go away if I send them
gift cards, or the more mundaine solar spammers, do they really think we
are that stupid, well I know whos stupid when they spend between a few
minutes and 30 minutes talking to "Lenny" lol

[6] pi 3b, nothing special, runs ADSB decoder for a few online providers


@work: where to start, dell 1ru's, 2ru's (multiple generations), HP l360s
and 380s, I think gen6 is oldest through to gen 11. Theres hrmm 18 mail servers as of last month and a few management and dns servers using raid
1, and a whole lot of others in raid 10






OT

only non slackware box is the company pbx

/rant-mode=on

thats debian12 (required now if you want any support or make bug reports
on freepbx) and I can tell you right now, Im looking at getting off that
POS too, christ, what a disastor of a distro, and yes, moslty becasue of systemd! its now like windows, it dicates to you how you will use the OS.
gone are simple easy 1 liners (ok 3 liners if you use condition tests) in startup procedures, cron execution time settings, no no you need to write
a myriad of service and unit blocks systemd.wank files, 1 line V 12 lines
is better? that kids is why you dont do drugs.

and dont get me started on debian 12's logging wank, using just, you
guess it, the virus systemd, making monitoring scripts useless, even the simple one like logwatch, until you configure out how to get things
logging back to 30 plus year file formats (and no its not just a case of installing rsyslog) that everyone knows and understands... what a waste
of our time.

I swear to god if Pat moves away to full systemd... thats the day I sell
up, retire, and abandon linux.

(on the plus side of debian 12 and systemd, I know a couple of small
ASP's in town who are also sick of it, and moved their debian servers to slackware, I know of a few more, but all are hesitant because as they
rightly indicate, 15 is too stale.

/rant
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

Just a fun thread for people to share the specs of any machines they
have running Slackware.

I personally have two machines running Slackware at the moment:

Lenovo ThinkPad X260 - Intel Core i5 6300U (4) @ 3GHz - Intel HD
Graphics 520 integrated GPU - 8GB RAM (hoping to upgrade to 32 at some
point)
- 256GB SATA SSD (hoping to upgrade to 2TB at some point)

Raspberry Pi 4B - Broadcom BCM2711 Cortex-A72 ARMv8 SoC (4) @1.8GHz -
4GB RAM - 1TB external USB HDD (very slow but does its job)

What specs do you have?

Main PC is:

Ryzen 7 5700X
Radeon RX6800XT
64GB RAM
Slackware current (finally caved in because AI software started making API calls that aren't supported on earlier versions. probing GPU)
IceWM/boring desktop stuff

Router/Server PC is:

Lenovo SFF PC with
i5-3550
4GB RAM
Intel 2-port Gigabit NIC (lspci says '82574L')
Slackware 15
dhcpd/dnsmasq/ntpd/nginx/postgres/wikijs .. use the wiki as a kind of
personal "google keep notes" and the httpd to stare stuff generally

I have a VPS that runs Slackware too. I try not to think about it because
it's not supported and has to be carefully updated.. and is probably not
up to date because of that :/
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

What specs do you have?

I have a modified version of Slackware 15.0 installed on a flash drive.
It can boot from whatever compatible PC hardware I can get my hands on.
That includes several PCs and a few laptops.

You can read more here:

https://rosevearsoftware.com/products/zombieslack

-Joe
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On 12/16/24 19:26, TronNerd82 wrote:

What specs do you have?

I have five slackware machines in my small home network. they are all
old machines and each one has a specific function though only 2 of them
are constantly used.
- an old 486DX with 330 MB disk 8 MB RAM and slackware 11.0
- an old 486DX4 with 1 GB disk 32 MB RAM for tape backups.
slackware 14.2
- an old Pentium III with 2 x 160 GB disks 384 MB RAM slackware 14.2
- an old AMD Sempron that hosts several services including the web
server in signature 850 GB of disks @ GB RAM and slackware 15.0
- a old Lenovo ThinkCentre i5-4570 used for most of daily services and
with 2 x 500 GB disks 16 GB RAM slackware 15.0 and dual boot with
Windows 10

Ciao
Giovanni
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it stops working when you open Windows.
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:43:12 -0000 (UTC), Joseph Rosevear wrote:

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

What specs do you have?

I have a modified version of Slackware 15.0 installed on a flash drive.
It can boot from whatever compatible PC hardware I can get my hands on.
That includes several PCs and a few laptops.

cool, so none of the information requested in the thread.. lol
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On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 11:15:26 -0000 (UTC), Alexander Grotewohl wrote:

On Tue, 17 Dec 2024 08:43:12 -0000 (UTC), Joseph Rosevear wrote:

On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

What specs do you have?

I have a modified version of Slackware 15.0 installed on a flash drive.
It can boot from whatever compatible PC hardware I can get my hands on.
That includes several PCs and a few laptops.

cool, so none of the information requested in the thread.. lol

Yes, I cheated, I know. But think about it. If you knew you would be reincarnated, continuing your life in another body, the details of your current body wouldn't matter much.

My use of ZombieSlack has spanned several machines. Maybe six? They
come and go in a blur. And because it is easy to plug in the flash drive
and boot, it is easy to acquire new machines. Many that I have were
given to me by a former employer--they would have otherwise been
discarded.

-Joe
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On 2024-12-17, Giovanni wrote:

I have five slackware machines in my small home network. they are all
old machines ...
are constantly used.
- an old 486DX with 330 MB disk 8 MB RAM and slackware 11.0
- an old 486DX4 with 1 GB disk 32 MB RAM for tape backups.
slackware 14.2
- an old Pentium III with 2 x 160 GB disks 384 MB RAM slackware 14.2
- an old AMD Sempron ... slackware 15.0
- a old Lenovo ThinkCentre i5-4570 used for most of daily services and
with 2 x 500 GB disks 16 GB RAM slackware 15.0 and dual boot with
Windows 10

... and here I thought that I had kept my 486 systems for about as long
was was reasonably possible (the last of them was replaced probably
about 10 years ago or so).

My own collection is too varied to list all the systems, but some
standouts include:

An Asus EeePC (701, "4G Surf", if I recall correctly) running
Slackware-13.37, using a permanently mounted SD card for additional
storage. The memory in that system has been upgraded to the 2GB
maximum that the machine can use. My weakest system, but also
physically the smallest. I need to think about how I might go
about putting a more recent version of Slackware on it, though.
It's not very useful as it is.

A Sony Vaio VPCW211AD mini notebook. Intel Atom CPU, 2GB RAM,
and 1TB WD Blue SA510 SSD. The system is not very powerful, but it
works well. Currently running Slackware-15.0, but I'm planning to
upgrade it to Slackware64, probably after 15.1 is released. Almost
as small as the EeePC, but with enough storage for a modern OS.

HP EliteBook 8470w, Intel Core i5, 8GB RAM, and a similar WD Blue
SA510 1TB SSD. A bit of a workhorse, given its portability.
This one gets used a lot more than was originally intended.
Running Slackware64-15.0.

My daily "desktop" system is a "Frankenputer" with an AMD FX-8350
eight-core processor, 32GB RAM, a 250GB main disk drive, and a 4-disk
700GB RAID-5 array on a RocketRAID 640L SATA-III RAID controller.
That's running Slackware64-14.2, though I of course want to update
it. It's just that updating your daily "wokstation" computer can
be so disruptive ...

I have another of the same hardware, with less disk space (and no
hardware RAID), that's used as a music workstation (Ardour and the
like), also on Slackware64-14.2. That system hasn't been up since
late spring, due to a relocation and a still-pending rebuild of the
music room.

There are others, with more mundane specifications, running
Slackware64-15.0, running mail/DNS/web services, home network gateway,
and such, and a couple of Arch-Linux systems managed by my ${SO}. ...
and still more waiting to have modern Slackware installed so they
can be returned to service.

Oh, and let's not forget (though it hasn't been powered on in
nearly 10 years, and probably will be a few more years before I
revive the project; that is *IF* I revive that project), the old
Compaq AlphaServer DS-10 that I had ported Slackware-10.2 to ...
I guess technically that was effectively "Slackware64", though I
don't believe that there *was* an official "Slackware64" at the time.
(Fred Emmott's Slamd64 project notwithstanding).

I don't think that I ever really consider it all that important what
the specs of any given system are. I just don't push any of them
anywhere near the limits of what they can do, though I probably
get pretty close to the limit with the HP EliteBook, which does
a lot, considering it was supposed to be the "garage computer" ...
The workstations (main and music) are overpowered for what they do, and
that's really how I want them. I do need to get the OS and software
up to date on both, though ... (probably why the HP notebook gets
used so much ...)
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On Mon, 16 Dec 2024 18:26:39 +0000, TronNerd82 wrote:

What specs do you have?

My main home macine:

Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E3-1275 v6 @ 3.80GHz
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 4
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-7
With built in Intel VGA
16 GB RAM
A Seagate Exos spinning drive of 2 salesmen TB, 1.8 "real" TB


My old machine which I still use to read mail:

Pentium III (Coppermine) @ 1 GHz
1 single core
nVidia Corporation NV20 [GeForce3] (rev a3)
384 MB RAM
A Seagate Barracuda spinning drive of 320 GB.


My mythTV frontend: ( http://poolhem.se/video/ )

Intel(R) Atom(TM) CPU 330 @ 1.60GHz
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
NVIDIA Corporation C79 [ION] (rev b1)
4 GB RAM (but I think VGA steals some of that)
KINGSTON SA400S3 SSD 480 salsemen GB, almost 450 "real" GB.


My mythTV backend:

Intel(R) Core(TM) i3-4130 CPU @ 3.40GHz
Thread(s) per core: 2
Core(s) per socket: 2
On-line CPU(s) list: 0-3
With built in Intel VGA
4 GB RAM
A Seagate Barracuda spinning drive of 2 salesmen TB, 1.8 "real" TB

I also have at least two laptops running Slackware, one old laptop and
two really old laptops. One of those laptops is kept for its capability
to run old Wine 1.0 which was able to run Garmin poiloader.exe, newer
versions of Wine has been unable to do that. If I remember right, my most recent laptop has 8 GB of RAM.

regards Henrik
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inxi probably is using Gibibytes. https://www.techtarget.com/searchstorage/definition/gibibyte-GiB

Here's what df -H thinks of it:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 269M 19M 251M 7% /boot/efi
/dev/root 529G 212G 291G 43% /
/dev/sda3 215G 144G 71G 68% /home
/dev/sda4 215G 6.8G 208G 4% /srv
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