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| ====== FreeSlack ====== | ====== Freenix ====== |
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| FreeSlack is a Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware. The project's primary goals are to document all [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html#non-freeSoftware|non-free]] software in Slackware distribution, and to make it easy for users to maintain a fully [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html|free]] OS based on Slackware. | Freenix is a Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware. The project's primary goals are to document all [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/categories.en.html#non-freeSoftware|non-free]] software in Slackware distribution, and to make it easy for users to maintain a fully [[https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html|free]] OS based on Slackware. |
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| 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 [[http://www.slackware.com/about/|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. | Technically speaking, Freenix 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 [[http://www.slackware.com/about/|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. |
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| ---- | Freenix is formerly known as FreeSlack, which was the name of the original documentation project. Since the documentation work is mostly complete, and the main thrust of the project now is the free distribution, we decided to give it a distinctive name. We are currently in the process of rebranding everything, but our old intertnet domain [[http://freeslack.net]] remains active, and the name FreeSlack still refers to the Slackware package licensing documentation. |
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| ===== Upcoming Changes ===== | |
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| 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. | |
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| * [[Installation]] | * [[Installation]] |
| | * [[FXP packages]] |
| * [[Installation#source_code|Source]] | * [[Installation#source_code|Source]] |
| * [[Free Repository]] | * [[Free Repository]] |
| * [[Participation#write_documentation|Write documentation]] | * [[Participation#write_documentation|Write documentation]] |
| * [[Project Goals]] | * [[Project Goals]] |
| * [[FreeSlack Licensing]] | * [[Licensing]] |
| | * ChangeLog |
| | * [[ChangeLog 14.2|14.2]] |
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| ===== Slackware Package Licensing ===== | ===== Slackware Package Licensing ===== |
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| This project could not have succeeded without the hard work of [[http://www.slackware.com/about/|Slackware developers]] and the [[http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/|alien technology]] courtesy of [[http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/about/|Eric Hameleers]]. May "Bob" install a fountain of Slack in their lobby. | This project could not have succeeded without the hard work of [[http://www.slackware.com/about/|Slackware developers]] and the [[http://www.slackware.com/~alien/tools/|alien technology]] courtesy of [[http://alien.slackbook.org/blog/about/|Eric Hameleers]]. May "Bob" install a fountain of Slack in their lobby. |
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