On slackware-current. Latest kde, mesa, fairly new lts kernel. All vanilla software (with security patches). Xfce, and more. No official gnome. Everything works, simple system. No official package dependency resolution, install a lot of packages recommended (they in groups). Good for me.
Edit: oh, and very stable
I have an intel arc 380 gpu, i know slackware current has preconfigured kernel. I havent tried building my own kernel but would it be easier using preconfigured or just build it?
I know intel arc requires 6.2 kernel as the driver and i believe mesa 22(or newer) .
Current has mesa 23.1.3 and kernel 6.1.
Been a while since i built a kernel. Way i did it was (as root):
wget https://cdn.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v6.x/linux-6.4.3.tar.xz
for example)cd /usr/src/
and tar xvf the-downloaded-tarball
rm linux
- it's a link to kernel source, so that programs can compile against the kernel (rarely necessary)ln -s linux-downloaded-one linux
- makes new link to downloaded kernelcp linux-installed-kernel/.config linux/
- copy the old config to the newcd linux
then make oldconfig
- a lot of questions about all the new options, that should include the new arc drivers if they are not included into old onesmake menuconfig
or make nconfig
- are TUI-s to configure the kernel. nconfig has a search (F8)make bzImage modules
- to compile the kernel and modules (basically shared libs)make modules_install
- copies modules to /lib/modules/version (important as most drivers are modules)cp arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-version
- copy the kernel core to /boot/etc/lilo.conf
- if you use grub then idkimage = ...
, keep the original to have a bootable kernel/boot/vmlinuz
to whatever i called mineNot the official slackware way, but.. actually slack is the slackware way. Have borked my system plenty of times and had to dig up the install cd/usb to fix it.
There is documentation on slackbook http://www.slackbook.org/html/system-configuration-kernel.html but it's a bit outdated. You can always ask questions on the official forum https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/
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Many thanks for this, ill be going through this thouroughly to see about getting this running. This is huge help thanks again.