This concept and these notes are entirely obsoleted by dm-crypt, if you want a complete encryption solution.
These notes were made from instructions from Slackware as of Slackware 14.2 64bit.
It's remarkably simple.
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Logical Volume Management
This concept and these notes are entirely obsoleted by dm-crypt, if you want a complete encryption solution.
These notes were made from instructions from Slackware as of Slackware 14.2 64bit.
It's remarkably simple.
Logical Volume Management
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https://slackbuilds.org/repository/14.1/system/slpkg/
https://dslackw.gitlab.io/slpkg/ [ 1 ] was github.com/dslackw/slpkg
https://git.slackbuilds.org/
SlackBuilds.org
A Slackware source-based package manager.
Easy to use.
NOTE - you don't have to have slpkg installed to compile a SlackBuild-supported program from source.
slpkg
Footnotes
Other package managers that supplement or replace Slackware native package management.
Some examples of tools which come with Slackware.
pkgtool
installpkg
removepkg
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See also Slackware package managers for other package managers, often with dependency resolution.
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Linux distributions + Slackware >
rogueclass.org
Rogue Class is a toy Linux distribution for playing games and reading books.
2013-06-23 -- submitted to distrowatch (not by me)
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Linux distributions + Slackware >
http://slacko.01micko.com/download.html
A Puppy Linux for- thing, built using woof-CE. Built from Slackware.
Overall, I'm not impressed.
Since Puppy Linux uses systemd, I might presume this does too. However, Slacko is built from Slackware using Puppy's build system.
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My various thoughts at different times I played with it.
Anything currently-useful will be kept in Slackware or some other appropriate page.
See also: