Let's go through every single package installed with a Linux install image. I'm going through the software included with Slackware, but these are all open source applications and libraries, so whether you're running Slackware like me or Fedora, Debian, BSD, or even Mac or Windows, you can probably download, install, and try these on your computer. So chances are you'll be able to learn something from this podcast. Let's get started. First package in the list, x11-skel. This is a Slackware-specific package. It's got a bunch of stuff by Patrick Volkerding in it. A couple of generated scripts from xf86config, such as a sample zorg.conf file, which is kind of interesting, I guess, to look at. Like if you've never had to do a zorg.conf file, this gives you an idea of what one looked like. It isn't pretty, like really, honestly, not pretty at all. In fact, this is one of those configuration files that for me kind of represents what not to do, which is frankly a little bit harsh, but that's (1/54)
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