12 Apr
2025
12 Apr
'25
3:54 a.m.
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.