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Re: Survey: What do you run first after you boot Slackware?

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On Sat, 27 Jun 2026 21:41:56 +0300, Lumin Etherlight wrote:

> After  the typical  system services,  local
>   mail server (postfix),  news server (leafnode), my personal Wireguard
>   VPNs, and other rc.local stuff,
>   I usually run startx,  booting to dwm, then follow that with st
>   instances running GNU screen, then an Emacs server instance.  I
>   usually also start music through some bash functions  that wrap mpv. 
>   Check my plain-text task list and journal in Emacs, pick something I
>   want to  do, and start chugging along.
>   Nowadays, I mostly use my personal text editor, an ed-like written
>   from scratch, more than Emacs, and I use my  fork of suckless surf 
>   for web browsing,
>   but I do less and less  of that in recent days.  I still use Emacs, 
>   for GNUS mail and  news, and for the one-off crazy macro here and
>   there.  I connect to a VPS  that runs irssi for IRC  access.  SSH is
>   definitely something  I use  a lot,  to administer dozens of other
>   Slackware machines.
> 
>   This accounts for most of my Slackware usage :-)
>     (and computer usage in general).
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> Lumin Etherlight

Hey, Lumin!

Thanks for your input.  It was interesting to read about how you use 
Slackware.  For example, I had never heard of suckless software, st or 
GNU screen.  Interesting.  And I was thinking about IRC.  I actually used 
it a few times.  Any good Slackware information there?  My editor of 
choice is joe (Joe's Own Editor), which by coincidence is also my name.  
But I like it.  Fast and easy.

And I had to look up "VPS".  I didn't know there was such a thing.

Thanks again!

-Joe

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    Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-25 22:36 +0000
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    Re: Survey:  What do you run first after you boot Slackware? Joseph Rosevear <Mail@JoesLife.org> - 2026-06-29 01:02 +0000
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