On Wed, 12 Sep 2018, Mike C. wrote:
In fact, one can use an apt like package manager called slapt-get or a NetBSD's pkgsrc which supports Slackware.
Mike, I think that most of us use slackpkg to install and update base packages, and sbopkg for the abundant Slackbuilds.org packages that produce the same *.tgz package formats. Pat's taken the core distribution compressor to xz so those packages are *.txz. Debian and Slackware (in alphabetical order) are the two early distributions (remember ydraghil or however that was spelled?) from way back when. Both spawned many progeny and great-great-grandchildren by now. If you want to see the history of linux the latest chart (adding new distributions and dropping those that died) look here: <http://futurist.se/gldt/wp-content/uploads/12.10/gldt1210.svg>. It's quite fascinating. Perhaps Free Geek would print this on a wall-size chart and put it up in their meeting room. Rich _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
