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I ran man netpkg, and got nothing. There's a lack of information about Zenwalk specific tools, about how it differs from Slackware. It was an interesting experiment, but I won't be keeping it.
Found what I believe was my first question on LQ, and it was about Zenwalk:
I ran man netpkg, and got nothing. There's a lack of information about Zenwalk specific tools, about how it differs from Slackware. It was an interesting experiment, but I won't be keeping it.
Found what I believe was my first question on LQ, and it was about Zenwalk:
There's a help menu, but I agree that having no man page for the main package management tool doesn't really inspire confidence. I wiped it and now I'm going to play with Salix.
This is why RH have a non gui release thats D/L's exceed that of its "full" iso and is copied over the centos and rocky, and so heavily used in data centres, yes yes yes I've heard the " but tehy have a floor full of packager " and thertre's just Pat... yes, true, but you know what i'm going to say next dont you, but since you on teh cheersquad I wont waste my time
And you know what I'm going to say, but I'm going to say it anyway. Pat doesn't build Slackware for a specific usage. He provides a single 32bit release and a single 64bit release, both with the recommendation of a full install. If you want to go against the grain, you might need to do your own tweaking.
As I asked, should features be knowingly disabled simply because some users don't use Slackware as recommended (a full install)? Should those users that actually do a full install be forced to recompile that software to pick up the additional dependencies?
If you want to swim against the current, you'll need to expend extra effort to do so. Most of us go with the flow because it's a lot less effort
Distribution: Slackware/Salix while testing others
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Just got Zenwalk 15.0 up & running in VBox. Virtually (pun intended) the same routine (ncurses interface) as Slackware installation + the option to create a "normal" user.
Ideal for anybody who wants a slimmed-down Slackware, and doesn't want the hassle of selecting packages. 10/10.
Salix seems stuck at 14.2.
I have requested long ago that a forum be opened on LQ about Slint. As this request was not fulfilled I feel entitled to post topics about Slint in this forum, until a moderator tells me: no. Then, I will just cease to post in this forum.
The strange thing is that Cucumber Linux has its own sub-forum and it was discontinued, according to the author. It leads me to wonder how many discontinued distros have their own sub-forum. https://www.cucumberlinux.com/
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