Slack DVD

What is it?

The Slack

DVD is a collection of additional packages for Slackware Linux

14.2 32-bit.
There are games, window managers, productivity software, all sorts of programs.

Why?

Slackware 14.2 is a 9-year-old release by the time I am writing this.
And Slackware, thanks to it bundling everything is very time-proof.
Unfortunately, Slackware doesn't bundle EVERYTHING. So this is my attempt to add more software thereto.
Why 32-bit? The answer is simple: 32-bit systems can run on 64-bit computers, while vice versa it's not the case.
Not to mention that i386 is cool and retro and all, and that you can't run modern binaries on Slack 14.2 anymore.

You can build packages from SlackBuilds.Org, but as the time goes by, many source files become unavailable, not to
mention the compile errors that can occur. This is an issue even today, not to mention like five years from now, or more.
So this is basically a collection of prebuilt SBo packages (plus some custom packages of mine) for Slackware 14.2 i386.
A thing worth mentioning is that it is made for the base install of Slackware, that is, without the updates that you
can install. To be perfectly retro just don't install these updates, especially that the OS doesn't nag you to do so (I am looking at you, Ubuntu).

Okay, but why keep alive a decade-old Linux distro? Because it's cool!
Back in the day software was cool, and now it's not. Slack 14.2 ships with KDE4, which is basically the Windows Vista of Linux. All that transparency and animations, and the glow coming out of active windows. So cool.
It's such a beautiful desktop, and such a customizable one. Plasma 5 just doesn't have the same vibe, and Plasma 6 is downright ugly (Plasma 6 is the Windows

11 of Linux).
And that's why I want to save Slack 14.2. Unlike other distributions, Slack doesn't have a centralised repository where the developers will build packages for you. You have to build SBo's yourself, and you can pack the results onto for example a DVD, which is what I did.

Get the Slack DVD

The preferred way of getting a Slack

DVD is to download

the ISO image

and burn it onto a DVD with tools like Brasero and Xfburn (both are available on the Slack

DVD!).

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1994-2099.
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