Free as in Freedom, Slack as in Slackware
January 10, 2010
Hello everybody in the new year! There are a couple new links in our Slack Collection. One is Slackpack, a package manager by Pavloudis Zisis aka Mystical Groovy. According to the docs, Slackpack "has a friendly GUI environment and can install packages, list installed packages, remove Slackware Linux packages (.tgz or .txz), and convert to .tgz format from .deb or .rpm. It can download Slackware Linux packages from package repositories, and can create .tgz packages from an application's source code." Good luck, Slackpack!
Another link leads one to A Pooling of ##slackware and Slackware Resources by Ron Sinclair. It's not easy to follow listings of discussions on ##slackware but sometimes they happen to be pretty helpful. The site also contains a number of links to resources related to Slackware.