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• Operating environment
• Sy's Linux Tricks and Tips

http://www.slackware.com
  announcements and security mailing lists

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[edit] Items

• Slackware Linux Essentials, second edition
• Sy's Slackware Story
• Dated Slackware notes

• VMware has notes on running Slackware under VMware.
• hosts -- Because I don't know where else I'd put this.

• /12.0
• /10.0

[edit] Documentation and Help

• http://slackwiki.org
• http://www.slackersbible.org
• printed book
• http://www.slackbook.org
  • http://adrien.beau.free.fr/slackware/book/ -- downloadable mirror
  • http://slackbook.lizella.net -- Used to be an unofficial revision. Seems to just be a mirror now.
• SlackFAQ
• Slackware Tips & Tricks by Jack S. Lai -- From May 2003, but it may contain useful tidbits.
• http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/slackwarefaq/
• Slackware Linux Unleashed

[edit] Slackware Forums

• Officially-recognized linuxquestions.org forum
• http://www.slackwarehelp.org/
• LinuxPackages - Slackware Forum
• http://forums.droplinegnome.org/viewforum.php?f=8
• http://www.linuxforums.org/forum/slackware-linux-help/

• Slackware Phorum -- An old archive of previous messages from the old slackware forum.
  • as of July 2007, it just displays a blank page.
• http://www.linuxiso.org/forums/viewforum.php?f=25
  • as of July 2007, the entire domain seems to be missing.

[edit] Slackware Mailing Lists

• http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/
• Slackware Info Page - Mailing Lists
• http://www.kurtwerks.com/mailman/listinfo/slackware
• http://groups.yahoo.com/group/linux-slackware/

[edit] More

• http://www.slackbasics.org -- The revised book
• http://members.cox.net/laitcg/new/intro.shtml
• news://alt.os.linux.slackware
• irc://irc.oftc.net#slackware
• freenode.net ##slackware

[edit] Slackware Resources

• http://distrowatch.com/table.php?distribution=slackware
• http://www.userlocal.com

[edit] Slackware Links

• http://www.userlocal.com/slackware-links.php

[edit] Slackware Software

• CheckInstall -- For installing from source and making reusable packages.
• slacktrack -- creating your own packages

[edit] Software Updating Tools and Package Managers

some nice links are here: http://tukaani.org/links

For keeping up-to-date:

• getpkg
• SWARET is a tool designed to be used with either Slackware or distributions dirived from SLackware. It allows an administrator to install, upgrade, or remove packages. It detects library dependencies, and presents the end user the option to install packages that will resolve those dependencies.
  • wiki
• slackerx -- slacker is a slackware pkgtool package management assistant. It was primarily designed to allow you to automatically keep your system up to date by periodically checking the 'patches' directory on the slackware ftp site for your installed version.
• slapt-get is an APT like system for Slackware package management. It allows one to search slackware mirrors and third party sources for packages, compare them with installed packages, install new packages, or upgrade all installed packages. Great for scripting as well.
  • See also gslapt their GTK app
• spkg -- a slackware package management utility. It can download/install/remove/upgrade packages, sync to the slackware-current tree, perform system upgrades and perform regular expression matching for package lists. spkg aims to be simple, powerful, ...
  • beta..
• amypkg -- amypkg, a bash script to simplify package installation under slackware linux. features automatic dependency finding and installation ...
  • beta

other/unsorted:

• slackupdate is a bash script that can be used to check for, download, and install Slackware updates. As of July 2007 it's out of date (Slackware 10.2)
• Slackpkg
• http://slaktool.sourceforge.net
• http://slackcurrent.sourceforge.net -- simple script to check for updated packages. Doesn't do anything with the list though, so you would wget and install the items manually.
  • might be a good candidate for rewriting in a mini-project.
• http://yann.wanwanscappel.free.fr -- gnome-based. Seems abandoned.
• gnome-pkgtool -- Just a GUI
• http://deprecated.it/kslackcheck/index-en.html -- For checking for changelog updates.

[edit] Software Reservoirs

• http://slackbuilds.org
• http://www.linuxpackages.net
• http://www.slacky.eu -- Italian
• http://rlworkman.net/pkgs/ -- even has some 12.0 packages.