Wishlist for Slackware 9.2 --- additional packages
 

I'v just noticed that for Slackware there are no packages of some of my favourite programs.
In case someone of the Slackware development team and/or package maintainers listens, here's what I'd be pleased to see in Slackware 9.2:

tgif http://bourbon.usc.edu:8001/tgif/
kvim http://www.freehackers.org/kvim/
taskjuggler http://www.taskjuggler.org/

I also use the Openbox window manager, so current versions are much appreciated.

Finally, I find swaret pretty nice.

Best wishes and thanks for providing such a great distribution

gargamel

A browser like dillo should be include too.
On pentium 1 type, lynx is fine, but mozilla is too greedy.

What I am missing is ODBC (unixODBC or/and iODBC) support. Even with the packages I install from linuxpackages, it doesn't fit in: no mysql odbc driver, no php odbc support and such. I am very well aware I can get the sources from some place, use checkinstall and such.. but I would lose the advantage of having swaret keeping me up to date.

And lets face it.. there is no reason not to include it.. :)

Other than that I don't want Slackware to end like all the other distros that come with 5+ CD's. :) I do also have some ideas for additional packages that could be bundled into Slackware, but please keep it as simple as it is.

Agreed, but if the additional packages were put on additional discs nothing would bother anyone who likes it as it is. Noone would be forced to install something just because it's there. If you don't need what's on disc 19, well, don't get it!

gargamel

I wish to see enlightenment back into distro. They finally dumped freetype1 and use freetype2. To buld it on Slack 9.1 (enlightenment DR 16.7) nowdays all you need is to install Imlib2 and that's it. Especially with Winter theme it looks and works very nice.

I would like to see KDE and GNOME excluded

sethgeekx86,
wow man, that's pretty extreme. :)

I'd like to see k3b included and linneighbourhood or smb4k

gnucash
evolution

Slackware 9.2 eh?
 

New version of slackware soon...HOW ABOUT A GUI INSTALL!!!....lol wow this damn install incredibly complicated and out dated, there is alot to configure and setup even before you see the GUI...with redhat its a click click click and BOOM you're in

Re: Slackware 9.2 eh?
 

I don't think Slackware was intended to be super user friendly :) I like the slackware installer, personally. I just wish it was more like the FreeBSD installer when it comes to selecting packages (automatically telling me what the deps are for packages I'm installing).

GUI installers can be a hassle. A curses based installer ensures compatibility with hardware, and it is quick.

*edit* If it put the packages on the disk and made you install them yourself post-OS-install rather than having you choose during the install, then add whatever the heck you want. The less deselecting of packages I have to do, the better (I like my installs tiny).

I love the simplicity of slack the way it is. The programs that aren't included that I use I compile myself without any trouble. There are an increasing number of places offering slackware packages as well. For me slack's install is the easiest of all the distro's I have used. Everything pretty much works out of the box.

i vote for lets keep slack the way it is. no reason to inflate the amount of disks, or add other programs. all of the programs that have been listed are so easy to get and compile that there is really no reason to add them in.

just my $0.02

Re: Slackware 9.2 eh?
 

urr no thanks. With my current video card being dual DVI there is not native support for it under X or any other GUI before I install the nvidia drivers. I quite like the slackware installer how it is. minimal and not cluttered.

I would rather see Openoffice replace KOffice. thats really the only thing I would change.