Migrating from Linux-VServer to LXC (Slackware)
Tired of the nightmares of remotely compiling the kernel with Linux-VServer, a software that I'm pleased with despite of some lack of documentation, these days I was playing with LXC, which is included and supported by Slackware and for which the Linux...
e-mail indexing with Solr FTS Engine
Solr is a Lucene indexing server. Dovecot communicates to it using HTTP/XML queries. With this indexing server, you can do text searches in your emails. Download latest version: v. 9.10.1 Solr documentation page Solr FTS Engine documentation page for Dovecot Configuring the FTS plugin in dovecot Changelog Feb 8, 2026- upgraded to v 9.10.1 Mar...
Wrapper scripts for LXC unprivileged containers
Index Part 1: Introduction Part 2: Basic configuration files Part 3: Creating an unprivileged container on Slackware Part 4: Scripts overview Part 5: Natting example Part 6: Migrating to Slackware-current - LXC-6 - cgroup2 Browse the scripts' folder Changelog A common use of the LXC containers is to isolate services like...
Converting a Linux installation to Slackware in an OVHcloud server
This article explains how to convert a given Linux distribution to a Slackware one in an OVHcloud server. I wrote in the past an article about doing the same for OVH kimsufi. It is inspired by the Slackware wiki page Install Slackware...
