On 4/11/25 6:04 PM, Gianluca Interlandi via tde-users wrote:
I understand the frustration and this is not to minimize your efforts to improve TDE on Slackware. I have been using TDE on openSUSE Leap 15.x and it has been working pretty fine. But openSUSE also uses the mainstream stuff like systemd. Who knows how things may change (hopefully not in a negative way) with Leap 16.x. Isn't openSUSE (former SuSE) derived from Slackware?
Historically, yes, back in the 1990s. But the design of Suse changed to RPMs soon thereafter. Any relationship these days to Slackware is only an historical footnote.
Slackware uses txz tarballs for packages (originally tgz) and has its own set of package management tools. Slackware design has changed little since inception. Booting the install floppy disks from the early versions look similar to the latest official release.
A common foundation doesn't mean Slackware hasn't evolved and kept pace though.