I am a man with a passion: computers.
This was one of my main interests while growing up and it naturally became a
successful career.
My main interests are programming and Unix-like operating systems. This blog
collect and share with you my experiments, my findings and part of the personal
projects I am working on. Enjoy.
Is it possible to install Slackware Linux when Secure Boot is enabled? Is it possible to install it in a chroot when running another Linux distribution? In this article I will review how Slackware is structured, how its installation works and how to perform a custom installation in a chroot jail (useful for Secure Boot or to create a Docker container for example).
Alpine Linux was on my list of lightweight distributions to check. From what I was reading around I thought it was only suitable for containers, but the test I ran in this article proved me wrong.
When I started playing with Linux, installing a dual boot system was the standard: back in the days we were talking about BIOS, the first 512 bytes of a disk (the Master Boot Record) and Bootloaders like LILO. Today EFI, GPT and Secure Boot have introduced a new layer of complexity and we need to update our knowledge. Let’s do this with this article.