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I purchased a new magazine today. Since my Linux Journal expired I figured that I’d give another a shot. I was surprised at how many the book store stocks now. Unfortunately they sysadmin stopped publishing so I can’t subscribe to them any more. I picked up a copy of Linux Magazine. I’ll figure out if I want to subscribe to that once I read it. Also I have to decide if I want to resubscribe to the Linux Journal. They both look decent but how much info can a magazine publish I mean, thats what blogs are for right? :)

I posted a Linux Video Tutorial on How to Partition Slackware earlier this morning. This is a follow up post, basically the point is I think that I’m going to test the waters in creating Linux Video Tutorials. A certain amount of effort goes into creating these videos and since I’m no video editing whiz it will probably be a slow building category. I’d like as much support as possible with this, those around me seem to think that it could do well and are impressed with the results but unfortunately when I upload them to YouTube its a different story. The quality of the How to partition Slackware video very poor. So in retaliation I am working on getting the necessary bandwidth to support high resolution videos. Stay Tuned for more information on these Linux Video Tutorials!

In other news January 2008 has been the best month for me so far. I would like to take a moment to thank everybody that visits on a regular basis for reading and ask for more comments. I havn’t made any money from this site yet (and nor do I plan to make masses) but feedback is always appreciated.

I’m looking for people to help with the daily blogging on Linux technologies so, if your interested shoot me an e-mail at owen -at- thelinuxblog.com

I made this quick video on how to partition Slackware 12

How to partition Slackware 12

You might need to turn up the volume. Let me know what you think of this video and if I should continue to make them.

steps are here for reference:

1. Boot up the Slackware installation disk
2. Select a keyboard map (if needed)
3. Log in as root
4. Use “cfdisk” to get into the disk manager
5. Create a swap partition in MB double the size of memory. If you have 256 MB of ram, use 512, 128 use 256 etc.
6. Change the partition type to swap
7. Create a root partition on the available space with the full disk
8. Make this partition bootable with the Linux file system type
9. write the changes to the disk.

This is a very basic setup. I want to make more videos on various subjects if this one picks up. In the line up is a whole Slackware setup tutorial and possibly various other distributions too. I would like to demonstrate other software and technologies.

Drop a comment and let me know what you think!