Spent a few hours today testing and tweaking pekwm vs evilwm on my Slackware system (same st + tmux + Firefox, same X setup). evilwm is beautifully minimal and will stay as my backup — and I’ll probably use it more whenever I feel like switching things up — but pekwm feels smoother, with less flicker and cleaner redraws.

I even found and reported a small -snap bug in evilwm while testing 🙂

#Slackware #X11 #Unix #pekwm #evilwm

bsddialog really feels more refined: spacing, fonts, widget layout… it ends up looking like a real system installer instead of a script UI.

CC: @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q...

After seeing @nprofile1q... bsddialog installer UI, I got curious and tried it on my own Slackware ThinkPad.

Built bsddialog from git (thanks to @nprofile1q... for the project) and wired it into my tty1 session menu — this is what my login screen looks like now.

Clean fonts, proper spacing, no GUI toolkit… it really feels like a real BSD-style installer, not just “dialog in a box”.

#BSD #Slackware #TUI #Unix

Very nice.
bsddialog feels like a proper installer UI compared to dialog.

Happy birthday! 🎉
BSD on a ThinkPad is a beautifully well-engineered way to relax.

For me, boring is a feature.

very nice!

Clean and intentional. That’s always satisfying to see.

Internal monitoring can go dark.
External monitoring tells the truth.

Great example of why both matter.

Really nice to see this: Game of Trees Hub (GOT)
A Git hosting service built on OpenBSD and Game of Trees, transparently funded via Open Collective.

Small, boring, security-first, and run by people who actually care about infrastructure.
Feels like one of the first real BSD-native Git hosting services.

This is the kind of thing BSD folks quietly smile about. 🐡

👉 https://gothub.org/

#OpenBSD #BSD #GameOfTrees #Git #FOSS

Finally got my hands on a ThinkPad X220 😍
Time to start installing Slackware-current and have some fun.

#ThinkPad #X220 #Slackware #Linux

Yes, I agree with you -- same here, I’m on -current daily. I just wanted to point out that 15.0 still works very well; for gaming, though, -current is usually the better choice.