FreeSlack is a Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware. The project's primary goals are to document all non-free software in Slackware distribution, and to make it easy for users to maintain a fully free OS based on Slackware.

Technically speaking, FreeSlack is a complete distribution and a Slackware derivative, but we prefer to think of ourselves as a shortcut to a free flavor of Slackware. We are not affiliated with the Slackware project, have no developers in common, and share no infrastructure. We use the term Slackware only in reference to the stock OS distributed by Patrick Volkerding. One of our ambitions is to become integrated within the existing Slackware community, and we hope to achieve that by making the smallest possible changes needed to deblob Slackware, while leaving all technical decisions up to the Slackware team.

In the coming days will will finalize the 14.1 repository by removing firefox, thunderbird, and seamonkey packages. A matching installation DVD will be released as well. Users running these applications will not have to uninstall them, but we will no longer provide any security updates for them. We are currently working on the way to deliver functional replacements for the omitted packages, but this probably won't happen until after we release 14.2.

• Installation
  • Source
• Free Repository
• Sanitizing Slackware
• Branding
• Participation
  • Mirror the repository
  • Seed the ISO image
  • Write documentation
• Project Goals
• FreeSlack Licensing

• Slackware 14.0
• Slackware 14.1
• Slackware 14.2

This project could not have succeeded without the hard work of Slackware developers and the alien technology courtesy of Eric Hameleers. May “Bob” install a fountain of Slack in their lobby.