A year of Slackware
Looking back on twelve months of running a Slackware box and trying to learn computer security through it. The end-of-year notes I want to remember.
Notes from the field
Writing
Long-form thinking on cyber defence, detection, and resilience — from Slackware-era honeypots through to AI-driven SOC analytics.
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Compiling the 2.0 kernel by hand, and why it is worth doing once
An afternoon spent producing a kernel that boots my exact machine — without any of the modules I do not need — taught me more about Linux than the previous six months put together.
Two weeks in: first impressions of Slackware
After a fortnight of installing, breaking, reinstalling, and finally understanding it, here is what Slackware has actually taught me. Mostly that simplicity is its own kind of hard.