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HOWTO articles
An overview of HOWTO articles that may or may not have a relation to Slackware. Application or hardware HOWTO's are welcome too.
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How-To Category Directories
| Page | Description |
|---|---|
| HOWTO articles - Cloud | Cloud is the buzz word of these days. We have a series of articles that will help you understand what cloud services are, how they can work in your advantage, and how you can run Slackware in the cloud. Commercial Cloud Services * Amazon Web Services (AWS) |
| HOWTO articles - Databases | This section contains how to articles intended to guide users to setup and maintain various database systems on Slackware based systems. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Emulators | Linux users often grew up using other computer Operating Systems and playing their games on Consoles. After making the switch to a Linux based desktop, no one is keeping you from enjoying those old environments, because emulator software has been written for a great many of those old platforms. Looking for a way to play your old Commodore games? Or MS DOS? Or Atari, ZX Spectrum, or ...? There is an emulator for almost everything, and they run great on Linux. |
| HOWTO articles - General Administration | This section contains How-To articles for system administration tasks that exist in multiple Linux and Unix based distributions Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Hardware | This section contains How-To articles for for hardware drivers and configurations including virtualization and emulation platforms. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Multimedia | This section contains how to articles intended to guide users to setup and maintain multimedia apps on Slackware based systems. Overview of Slackware Multimedia HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Network Services | This section contains how to articles intended to guide users to setup and maintain various network services on Slackware based systems. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Security | Securing your computer is an ongoing process. The following guides will help you secure your Slackware installation, be it for server, workstation or laptop needs. Make sure you subscribe to the slackware-security mailing list. All security announcements since 1999 are available on <http://www.slackware.com/security/>. |
| HOWTO articles - Slackware Administration | Although Slackware tries to limit distribution specific tools compared to other distributions, there are a few cases where specific tasks are unique to Slackware. This section contains those special cases. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS |
| HOWTO articles - Software | This section contains How-To articles for for software that does not fit into the network services or security categories. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
| HOWTO articles - Window Managers | This section contains how to articles intended to guide users to setup and maintain window managers on Slackware based systems. Overview of Slackware Administration HOWTOS ---------- howtos topic_page |
Non-Categorized HOWTOS
| Page | Description | Tags |
|---|---|---|
| ASUS eee PC HowTo | Although this howto was written specifically for the ASUS 1005HA netbook, it may be ported to similar machines. With Slackware everything works pretty much out of the box for this Asus EEE-pc model. Function keys, however, are not enabled by default, which means additional configuration steps are required. | howtos, asus, eee |
| Internationalization and localization of shell scripts | Internationalization and localization of shell scripts Presentation Purpose, scope and intended audience This document is intended to help developers, maintainers and translators to write/maintain/translate internationalized then localized shell scripts, using the tools provided by GNU gettext. | howtos, gettext, shell, scripts, internationalization, localization, i18n, l10n |
| Linux HOWTOs | The Linux HOWTOs are a collection of documents which cover specific subjects related to GNU/Linux. Most Linux HOWTOs are not tailored to a specific distribution, therefore they are very useful for Slackware Linux users. The linux- howtos package in the “f” software set contains the HOWTO collection. After installing this package the HOWTOs are available from the /usr/doc/Linux-HOWTOs/ directory. Slackware Linux also contains a small collection of Linux-related FAQs (FAQs are documents that answe… | howtos, author etech3 |
