Michael Balcos GNU/Linux SysAd in the Philippines

Click "Read more" to see my procedure for setting up slackpkg+ on Slackware64 15.0. Slackpkg+ "is a simple plugin that allows the user to add third-party repositories to slackpkg."

Happy Chinese New Year. I welcome the Year of the Wood Snake with a blog post on how to setup a minimal Debian64 12 OpenLDAP server and client. Click "Read more" to see the post.

This blog post discusses how to setup a minimal Debian64 12 KVM Server with bridged networking. This also discusses how to setup a Debian64 12 GUI Virt-Manager client for your KVM server.

This blog post discusses how you can make a LUKS encrypted EXT4 filesystem in a file. Please note that this article assumes that you have the necessary software installed from your GNU/Linux distribution.

This blog post discusses how you can make a LUKS encrypted EXT4 filesystem in a partiion. Please note that this article assumes that you have the necessary software installed from your GNU/Linux distribution.

In the past, I've been using the Projectfiles rc.firewall script for my Slackware firewalling needs. However, I thought I could make use of a more simple script. I then checked the internet if there is one I could use. I then found the script (https://github.com/BrentonEarl/Iptables-Script/blob/master/rc.firewall.laptop) you'll see in this post. It is the /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall script I use now for my Slackware powered laptop. Click "Read more" for the script. :)

For removing duplicate files, I find this script to be useful. Click "Read more" to see the script. :)

This blog used Wordpress in the past. Now, this is a static HTML blog. Among the reasons for this change are better security, lower hosting overhead, lower cost, and lower software maintenance. The tool I now use is Pelican, which is written in Python. In this post, I will make a short review of Pelican.

I guess I am someone who would say "once you go Slack, you never go back." So far, there were times that I left Slackware for short periods of time, but eventually return for a longer amount of time. My latest computer is a Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Gen 4 with an Intel i5-1235U processor. Since I like Slackware, I looked into making the GNU/Linux distribution work in this machine. One of the major things I had to do is to start using GRUB(I have been using LILO for Slackware until this time). In previous machines, I can still easily use LILO to dual boot Slackware64 and Windows 7. But now, it's not the case with Windows 11 and Slackware64. My special thanks to the OldTechBloke (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZeJd5JPQro) for the documentation on setting up GRUB during Slackware installation. This is because there is no GUI tool during Slackware setup for setting up GRUB(one has to use the CLI). Also, one has to build a more recent kernel than the one supplied with Slackware64 15.0. Click "Read more" to see my documentation on how to install Slackware64 15.0 on the Lenovo Thinkpad E14 Gen 4.