Slackermedia Handbook
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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.


The Online Edition
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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
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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**
<WRAP alert>
Alert box
</WRAP>
Important information that, if ignored, will cause something to fail. 

**Important**
<WRAP important>
Important box
</WRAP>

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**
<WRAP tip>
Tip box
</WRAP>

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**
<WRAP info>
Too Long; Didn't Read
</WRAP>

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//.


<WRAP centeralign>
<wrap fa>[[start|R]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[start|S]]</wrap> <wrap fa>[[intro|Q]]</wrap>
</WRAP>