Slackermedia Handbook

Slackermedia is documentation providing the information you need to create a full multimedia studio running on Slackware Linux. Its philosophy is to use only the best and most stable multimedia content creation tools that Linux has to offer. This not a beta testing exercise or a development platform; unproven technology need not apply. This is building a studio so you can forget about the tools and get down to creating cool stuff.

Previous versions of Slackermedia were published as books or ebooks; this all-new handbook is intended to be an ongoing up-to-date look at the process of building and using Slackware as a multimedia production environment.

Typographical Conventions

This text attempts to follow common conventions in technical documentation. Most of it will be intuitive, but to be clear:

Monotype

• application names
• commands
• filename

Boldface

• gui elements: labels, tabs, buttons, window_titles
• Keywords, jargon, or important phrases

Italics

• Emphasis

Alerts

• Important information that, if ignored, will cause something to fail.

Important

• Information that could confuse new users, but that will probably be common knowledge to experts. Pay special attention to these notices to level up.

Tip

• Optional information that often represents what the authors and other users of Slackermedia do, but may or may not be useful to you, depending on your personal style.

TL;DR

• “Too Long; Didn't Read” are for the impatient. These boxes sum up the contents of a chapter or section. If you only need a reminder of what to do, go straight to these boxes. If you are a new user, these can be useful summaries, but you should still read everything.