HPR3303: Slackware on RaspberryPi

a little history

• slackware on arm started by stuart winter in 2002
• became an official port of slackware in 2009
• lots of info at the video podcast on youtube

why choose slackware

• can do minimal installs easy
• education
• stable and secure

who should avoid slackware

• unwilling or unable to read and follow directions
• if you think your leet when you use apt instead of apt-get
• if you think commands like dd are 'scary'

howto

• there is no official port of slackware arm to raspberrypi
• i think this is because of raspberrypi has a non standard way of booting compared to most arm devices
• community has stepped in

on the slackware documentation project website there are 'manual' install projects

• took a while, had to download firmware from the raspberrypi project itself
• quite a bit of cleanup
• this is the guide if you want slackware on a pi-zero

link to the sarpi project

• guy named phil project lead, started in 2012
• the sarpi project is also a manual process
• even if you don't do this you should look at the website content, this is the way to do a tutorial
• after you download the sources this install is exactly like any other slackware install
• when you get to the package selection its easy to customize

after install

• you have a complete development environment
• be prepared to up your search foo
• many packages can be built from slackbuilds

The only mistakes you can't learn from are, your own fatal mistakes

Links

• https://arm.slackware.com/
• https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/
• https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabC1NZDGA3FZXf2hQ-6uyA/featured
• https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:start
• https://slackbuilds.org

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