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kujirasan 05-08-2009 08:04 AM

Kongoni LINUX
 
I saw this one on the Distrowatch.com, it claims that it can install software from binary with a new outfit called porting, I never have used slackware, be nice if one of you could explain the whole thing, for example does this mean one can down load binary and have it installed by the so called porting, this one claims just down load the binary and that is it, it well install and fetch the dependencies as well! Hard to believe!
Thanks

hitest 05-08-2009 08:09 AM

Welcome to the official Slackware forum, kujirasan. :)
We can help you if you have a Slackware question. Are you interested in installing Slackware?

mdg 05-08-2009 10:22 AM

You can read about it at the kongoni site. It's an adaptation of *BSD's ports system with a GUI.

amani 05-08-2009 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by kujirasan (Post 3534520)
I saw this one on the Distrowatch.com, it claims that it can install software from binary with a new outfit called porting, I never have used slackware, be nice if one of you could explain the whole thing, for example does this mean one can down load binary and have it installed by the so called porting, this one claims just down load the binary and that is it, it well install and fetch the dependencies as well! Hard to believe!
Thanks

Slackware does not use ports. In BSD all the sources will get downloaded and compiled and you can have as much control as you wish. Most Linux distros have efficient automatic package management. Gentoo, Sabayon use some form of ports

saulgoode 05-08-2009 12:29 PM

Kongoni uses the Portpkg system.

From the website's description:
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Portpkg is a ports system for Slackware Linux. Its purpose is to build and manage a larger set of software for Slackware. This is done not by provding binary packages, but by collecting scripts that download, compile and install software on your machine. The implementation is very simple and automated while still gaining the maximum possible "Slackwareness".

chess 05-08-2009 12:53 PM

IMHO, SlackBuilds.org, which is somewhat like a ports system, provides the maximum possible "Slackwareness" for third-party applications.

joutlancpa 05-08-2009 01:31 PM

looks like they're only using free, non restricted software, ala gnewsense....not my thing....:D

kujirasan 05-09-2009 01:14 AM

Thank you all for the in put, and much appreciated!
I did look at it slackware long ago, however; because I am not well versed in the C Language etc, I ended up with an distros! Slackwareis definitely the real linux!


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