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Hello.
Just thought if anyone knew of some projects (or tools) specifically put together for slackware -- things which are not available through the official slackware packages, and slackbuilds.org.
That one is not Slackware specific (which is what the OP asked for) but I agree it deserves a mention nonetheless. I suspect it is more widely used by the Slackware community than on other distros.
Ok, shameless self promotion but here are a couple of "Slackware specific tools", albeit they are very minor, trivial things, not really in the same league as most of the stuff mentioned thus far.
getupdates: A script that fetches updates for official packages you have installed. The core of what most people use slackpkg for. The upside is, that is all it does! It just fetches them, you still need to use upgradepkg to upgrade (UNIX philosophy and all that). Since it is simple there are no options to learn and fetching is done as your regular user.
fmakepkg: An alternative (Fake) makepkg. It is able to make packages with root owned files even when run as a regular user. Greatly simplified compared with the original and only works non-interactively.
I suspect that the vast majority of Slackware users would have zero interest in either of these but hey, you never know.
You can also find a lot a good stuff looking at the Slackware contributor / developer pages. Many are dormant and or discontinued but still worth a look.
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