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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by galangalalgol on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @07:11AM (#25057694)
What about slackware? Its been a couple decades but I used to get my kernel source from linux direct and never had problems.
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Re:How to get root on Ubuntu 20.04 by pretending nobody’s /home by ldarby on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:30AM (#25067073)
With respect to upstream patching, Slackware is similar to Arch, it has a few, but generally tries to stick to upstream. Kernel is unpatched though.
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