Revision as of 21:33, 4 July 2011

Here is a list of packages, present in both Salix and Slackware repositories and the reasons Salix is using a different build:

Salix 13.37

coreutils: Upgraded to 8.12. Fixes potential data loss issues with xfs filesystems and linux-2.6.39-related kernels.
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: Built using the mozilla binaries.
ntp: Altered scripts so it works out of the box.
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/.
wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.

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: Upgraded to 5.x.
ntp: Altered scripts so it works out of the box.
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.
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.

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: Upgraded to the latest version available.
ntp: Altered scripts so it works out of the box.
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.
wpa_supplicant: No QT GUI.
xfce: Newer exo that fixes several problems.
xfce4-power-manager: Newer version.

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 * '''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:''' Upgraded to 4.x.
+* '''mozilla-firefox:''' Upgraded to the latest version available.
 * '''ntp:''' Altered scripts so it works out of the box.
 * '''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 [http://spkg.megous.com/ their website]