vera is an alternative init daemon supervisor (PID 1) that uses kernel control groups (lightweight containers). Containers allow reliable, foolproof shutdown and termination of started services. Optionally enabling cgroup v2 controllers allows setting various resource limits, like specifying the maximum number of processes, or maximum memory used by each container. vera was developed on Slackware 15.0. It is capable of booting and shutting down a stock installation of Slackware 15.
Tray notification applet for informing about package updates in Slackware and CLI tool for monitoring upgraded packages.
Slpkg is a powerful software package manager that installs, updates, and removes packages on Slackware based systems. It automatically computes dependencies and figures out what things should occur to install packages. Slpkg makes it easier to maintain groups of machines without having to manually update. Slpkg works in accordance with the standards of the organization slackbuilds.org to builds packages. Also uses the Slackware Linux instructions for installation, upgrading or removing packages.
Alien is a Linux software package conversion tool. It transforms between Debian (.deb), Red Had (.rpm), Solaris (.pkg) and Slackware (.tgz/txz) archives. After transforming meta data and contained installation scripts, it can even install them right away. It runs most robustly on Debian-based systems, but also works with less frequently used RPM distros.
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