<h3 id="a-little-history">a little history</h3>
<ul>
<li>slackware on arm started by stuart winter in 2002</li>
<li>became an official port of slackware in 2009</li>
<li>lots of info at the video podcast on youtube</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="why-choose-slackware">why choose slackware</h3>
<ul>
<li>can do minimal installs easy</li>
<li>education</li>
<li>stable and secure</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="who-should-avoid-slackware">who should avoid slackware</h3>
<ul>
<li>unwilling or unable to read and follow directions</li>
<li>if you think your leet when you use apt instead of apt-get</li>
<li>if you think commands like dd are 'scary'</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="howto">howto</h3>
<ul>
<li>there is no official port of slackware arm to raspberrypi</li>
<li>i think this is because of raspberrypi has a non standard way of booting compared to most arm devices</li>
<li>community has stepped in</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="on-the-slackware-documentation-project-website-there-are-manual-install-projects">on the slackware documentation project website there are 'manual' install projects</h4>
<ul>
<li>took a while, had to download firmware from the raspberrypi project itself</li>
<li>quite a bit of cleanup</li>
<li>this is the guide if you want slackware on a pi-zero</li>
</ul>
<h4 id="link-to-the-sarpi-project">link to the sarpi project</h4>
<ul>
<li>guy named phil project lead, started in 2012</li>
<li>the sarpi project is also a manual process</li>
<li>even if you don't do this you should look at the website content, this is the way to do a tutorial</li>
<li>after you download the sources this install is exactly like any other slackware install</li>
<li>when you get to the package selection its easy to customize</li>
</ul>
<h3 id="after-install">after install</h3>
<ul>
<li>you have a complete development environment</li>
<li>be prepared to up your search foo</li>
<li>many packages can be built from slackbuilds</li>
</ul>
<p>The only mistakes you can't learn from are, your own fatal mistakes</p>
<h2 id="links">Links</h2>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://arm.slackware.com/" class="uri">https://arm.slackware.com/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/" class="uri">https://sarpi.fatdog.eu/</a></li>
<li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabC1NZDGA3FZXf2hQ-6uyA/featured" class="uri">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCabC1NZDGA3FZXf2hQ-6uyA/featured</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:start" class="uri">https://docs.slackware.com/howtos:hardware:arm:start</a></li>
<li><a href="https://slackbuilds.org" class="uri">https://slackbuilds.org</a></li>
</ul>
