Steam and slackware.
by pingu_penguin from LinuxQuestions.org on (#6R5ZF)
I have been using slackware for more than a year now and the whole experience of it is simply too good.
Initially I was skeptical if I would have to change to a different distro within a short time period (no systemd after all ) , but that never happened.
There are clearly some strong advantages of using slackware over other distros, although I dare not format my arch installation , which is equally a very good distro.
Coming to the question I have in mind, steam generally / officially supports ubuntu as its promoted OS for its packages (.deb format).
So how does slackware manage to make packages for steam ?
Does it borrow the binaries from the steam.deb package and rebundle it along with its scripts, to make it available for the community ?
If so , is it okay to do that ?
Initially I was skeptical if I would have to change to a different distro within a short time period (no systemd after all ) , but that never happened.
There are clearly some strong advantages of using slackware over other distros, although I dare not format my arch installation , which is equally a very good distro.
Coming to the question I have in mind, steam generally / officially supports ubuntu as its promoted OS for its packages (.deb format).
So how does slackware manage to make packages for steam ?
Does it borrow the binaries from the steam.deb package and rebundle it along with its scripts, to make it available for the community ?
If so , is it okay to do that ?