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!).

Also, out of generosity I have made available some other disc images of mine, for offline enthusiasts like unto myself:

The MineSlack CD: Bedrock Edition is a copy of an old version of Minecraft: Bedrock Edition (1.5.0.1 which is very nostalgic for me), which will run on a Slackware 14.2 i386 system with Slack kit installed. 1.7.* doesn't work on Slack 14.2, but I include it here nevertheless just for the sake of it. And yes, if thou art asking, it doesn't require thee to prove that thou hast purchased a legit copy of Minecraft. I trust thee, and Notch said that pirating Minecraft is okay. I have a legit copy of Minecraft, but I use cracked ("non-premium") launchers all the time, just because MS authentication sucks. Overall, authentication systems would kill the idea of data archival, since that requires an internet server, and if it is not present (or if thou hast no internet), then thou art screwed.
The Slack++ CD (even more software)
The OpenBSD+ DVD is a collection of software for OpenBSD 7.7 x86_64 made for the same purpose. And yes, it does include the Minecraft runtime.
The OpenBSD firmware CD containeth firmware for OpenBSD 7.7. If thou have a MiniCD/PocketCD, use it instead of a full-sized CD, since it's sort of a crime to burn an under 200mb image onto a 700mb disc.
The MoreFlags10 DVD containeth 784 packages for NetBSD 10.0 amd64 (including a Minecraft runtime!). Why not 10.1? Because NetBSD versions not ending in .0 suck for ABI reasons. Just don't use patch releases. Only use full releases like 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0 etc (by the way, the development of 11.0 hath started!). Why "more flags"? Because NetBSD's logo is a flag... got it? UPDATE: Now with a script to fix hplip. UPDATE 2: Now with jlsblk, a clone of lsblk I wrote. UPDATE 3: Now with XFCE and PCManFM. UPDATE 4: Now with wpa_gui, a readme on the repo thing, and some other shit. UPDATE 5: Updated jlsblk to support user-readable size display. Also, MEGA is terrible. UPDATE 6: My previous NetBSD hard drive died, and apparently something corrupted the previous iso, so here's a new one from a new install. I hope it worketh.
The TrustyCompanion DVD containeth a bunch of packages for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ("Trusty Tahr") x86_64. I tried to make it an APT repo, but for whatever reason some packages didn't register (apt sucks tbh), so I just threw in a script to install everything using dpkg.
The DoublePrecision DVD is basically the same, but for 12.04 LTS ("Precise Pangolin") x86_64. It containeth samba, which for whatever reason cannot be installed on 14.04 (as I said: apt sucks), so you'll need this to use 12.04 to create shared network directories.

Tips

By default git doesn't work with codeberg. To fix that, type:
git config --global http.sslVerify false
By defaut wget and other net-related programs also have troubles working. To fix that, download The ca-certificates package from 15.0, and type:
sudo /sbin/upgradepkg ca-certificates-20211216-noarch-1.txz
To get yt-dlp working thou wilt need a newer version of Python with SSL enabled. Thou knowest not how much mental health this cost me.
Brasero worketh not. Because of some privilege issues. Use XFBurn instead.
If thou happenest to be using an obscure filesystem that supporteth not common characters (I was such a fool that I picked reiserfs, and now I cannot see even double quotes! Pro tip: don't use anything else than ext. it will likely break thy system, or have other effects like this.), use yt-dlp --restrict-filenames. This worketh.
Qt5 applications (e.g. VLC, QBittorrent) are very sluggish when too many Firefox tabs are open. I have no idea why, just try to time their usage accordingly.
The NetBSD and OpenBSD DVDs can serve as offline repositories. Type 'export PKG_PATH=/mnt' and then use 'pkg_add packagename' to install any package thencefrom. I couldn't get it to work with pkgin, but it's still good. You don't need to install everything. And dependency resolution works.

I am not associated with Patrick Volkerding, AlienBOB, Bill Gates, or your uncle.
Copyright (Ç) Galactic Empire

1994-2099.
Last updated: I am too lazy to fill in this form.
Last sort of meaningful update: I remade the SlackPlus ISO, because for whatever reason the original missed seven files, among whom were such crucial things as SDL2 and OpenAL.