I just started to think about migrating to CRUX - imagine boat full of old Slackware users - rescue boat from damaged flagship - trying to reach safe coast of CRUX island. With sad smug expression - to say farewell - it was good to sail all these years together seas and oceans of computer world - but no more. My legs are trembling, body is falling - farewell, farewell my friend. I will remember you all the time - but look - there - new mysterious island - CRUX world. Shelter for Slackware castaways.

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I like how you get to the CRUX of the matter. You'll be missed. Bye, goodbye!

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I had a look at CRUX, seems interesting, but there's a whole bunch of stuff on SBo that isn't in CRUX ports. What do CRUXers do in those situations?

you write your own ports

Yeah OK, that would be a big drawback for me then, as I run quite a lot of stuff from SBo that CRUX ports doesn't seem to have.

This song has been ringing in my ears since I read the title.

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The official Crux ports are deliberately spartan. They don't aim to provide a large amount of software, just the basics. But there are a lot of privately maintained ports accessible from the crux website. Did you look at those?

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for me using someone else's ports (outside core, xorg, opt and contrib) resulted in a big mess. Overlaps, versions differences, broken links, unmaintained ports and ports tested on an older CRUX release. I ended up creating and maintaining my own collection. Later, I realised that I may, as well, join SBo and I did.

However, considering that I am running my own Xfce desktop on -current (recompiled 4.12, because I cannot stand GTK3), doing the same on CRUX seems like a viable option.

Yeah, that's where I searched, no dice. I already maintain a bunch of SlackBuilds for stuff, would be too much to create them for the missing stuff, so CRUX seems not viable for me.

IMHO GTK2 is not much better, I had weird menu items with both, I opened a bug with them. They told me I'm not supposed to use GTK applications without Gnome bloat and tagged my bug WONTFIX. I'm not a programmer, but finally I managed to patch together a patch. Maybe Slackware already has similar patch?

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is Crux linux only source based? i went from Gentoo to Slackware bacause im tired of compiling everything.
for me is better to compile only what is necessary. i still use Gentoo but is now my second os and Slackware my first.

luckycyborg
do you speak spanish?

You don't have to do it by hand, I let my computer to do the compiling.

well, my reasons are like this. For nearly 15 years I have had my desktop look and behave in a certain way. With certain variations of course, but that's how I am used to work and get my work done. GTK3 aggressively tries to change all this: no support for GTK2 themes (ok, fine... old toolkit), no support even for its modern themes (incompatibility between GTK3 releases), forces its own window decorations built in the widget itself, scrollbars that auto hide and are without arrow buttons... Who thought that an inactive window should dim all text in it? I can go on...

I found ways to address most of these things and "fix" them. I still do not like it.

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Since we are discussing CRUX, something that I really liked about it was prt-get. Such an elegant tool. If I knew C++, I would try to make it work with SlackBuilds.org... Maybe it's not too late to learn?

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