Slacware Package Groups
Created 2025-04-10
- A - The base system. Contains enough software to get up and running and have a text editor and basic communications programs.
- AP - Various applications that do not require the X Window System.
- D - Program development tools. Compilers, debuggers, interpreters, and man pages. It's all here.
- E - GNU Emacs. Yes, Emacs is so big it requires its own series.
- F - FAQs, HOWTOs, and other miscellaneous documentation.
- K - The source code for the Linux kernel.
- KDE - The K Desktop Environment. An X environment which shares a lot of look-and-feel features with the MacOS and Windows. The Qt widget library is also in this series, as KDE requires it to function.
- KDEI - Language support for the K Desktop Environment.
- L - System libraries.
- N - Networking programs. Daemons, mail programs, telnet, news readers, and so on.
- T - teTeX document formatting system.
- TCL - The Tool Command Language, Tk, TclX, and TkDesk.
- X - The base X Window System.
- XAP - X applications that are not part of a major desktop environment. For example Ghostscript and Netscape.
- XFCE - Xfce window manager
- Y - Games (the BSD games collection, Sasteroids, Koules, and Lizards).