Packages that are Different from Slackware
Here is a list of packages, present in both Salix and Slackware repositories and the reasons Salix is using a different build:
Salix 15.0
- elilo: Minor tweaks to eliloconfig.
- lilo: Salix artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- meson: Newer version so that updated versions of other packages can be built.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- xfce packages: We offer repositories for Xfce 4.18:
i586, x86_64.
Salix 14.2
- elilo: Minor tweaks to eliloconfig.
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- lilo: Salix artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- v4-utils: No QT GUI.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
Salix 14.1
- elilo: Minor tweaks to eliloconfig.
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- lilo: Salix artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- v4-utils: No QT GUI.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
Salix 14.0
- gst-plugins-good: Many more plugins, that are essential for gstreamer actually being of any use, are included.
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- lilo: Salix artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- p11-kit: Built with support for engine_pkcs11.
- sqlite: tcl support is broken in the Slackware package (32-bit only)
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- v4-utils: No QT GUI.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
Salix 13.37
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- libvorbis: Using the aotuv version instead, provides better quality encodes. Fully compatible with the official library version.
- lilo: Slackware package repackaged with different artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- shadow: Patched the Slackware package for fixing a bug where the environment was not set correctly with su.
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- wicd: The Slackware package is broken.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
- xfce: Mount vfat devices with thunar using utf8 by default.
Salix 13.1
- cups: Patched for behaving with gnome-vfs.
- gst-plugins-good: The Slackware package has no support for using audio/video with a webcam.
- libvorbis: Using the aotuv version instead, provides better quality encodes. Fully compatible with the official library version.
- lilo: Slackware package repackaged with different artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- pkgtools: The pkgtools package is available, but Salix is using spkg as default, however the original pkgtools are included even in the spkg-pkgtools package. Spkg is written in C and is much faster, see their website
- sc: The slackware package doesn't really work (x86_64 only)
- shadow: Patched the Slackware package for fixing a bug where the environment was not set correctly with su.
- sysvinit-scripts: Tweaked for boot speedup. Colorized boot messages. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/.
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- wavpack: Newer version.
- wicd: The Slackware package is broken.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
- xf86-video-intel: Offer both 2.11.0 and 2.9.1 versions of the driver. The older driver is needed for PCs with intel cards that fail to work with KMS with kernel 2.6.33.4.
- xfce: Patched mousepad for fixing a bug with the Find text tool.
Salix 13.0
- libvorbis: Using the aotuv version instead, provides better quality encodes. Fully compatible with the official library version.
- lilo: Slackware package repackaged with different artwork. Minor tweaks to liloconfig.
- mozilla-firefox: Using the latest ESR version.
- pkgtools: The pkgtools package is available, but Salix is using spkg as default, however the original pkgtools are included even in the spkg-pkgtools package. Spkg is written in C and is much faster, see their website
- shared-mime-info: Support for xz compressed files.
- sysvinit-scripts: Some code added to support splashy at bootup. Autostart feature for every executable file in /etc/rc.d/ added.
- hplip: No QT GUI.
- wavpack: Newer version.
- wicd: The Slackware package is broken.
- wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
- xfce: Newer exo that fixes several problems.
- xfce4-power-manager: Newer version.