Posts by frotz

Got an old Raspberry Pi spare? Try RISC OS. It is, literally, something else

I dabble a bit with ROOS and RISC OS Direct on my Pi 4. Being from the US (and a solid middle-class early 1980's childhood), it is quite unlike anything I'd used then or now. The integrated BASIC interpreter takes me right back to my childhood and my old 6502-based Atari (I believe Macs at the time cost about as much as my parents would spend on a car so they weren't even a dream), and demonstrated that my memories of fun weren't as rose-tinted as I thought. I enjoyed the experience enough to wish I had a "proper" desktop RISC system with storage beyond just USB or the flash cards on the Pi.

What a great platform.

Slackware wasn't the first Linux distro, but it's the oldest still alive and kicking

Um, Remember /etc/inittab?

I realize that Slackware booting into runlevel 3 by default might confuse some folks, but really is it so hard to make sure xdm or gdm or kdm or whatever is installed, and then edit /etc/inittab to set the runlevel to 5?