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2 months agoSlackware has been around long before those distros appeared
Slackware has been around long before those distros appeared
Yes, that’s true and a bad or undersized power supply also but in my experience it is much more likely to have a bad disk than to have something else fail
I would check the kernel messages (sudo dmesg) and check for errors on the ata bus. If there are it’s most likely the disk that is failling
I was very much eager to buy one until I saw its price tag
I’ll ask him. However the account didn’t show up as linked to other devices
I’ve been using Slackware since 1994, saw redhat and Debian being born.