For your convenience, we provide a free repository for use with slackpkg. It should be regarded as experimental, so please bear with us as we are ironing out the kinks. At the same time, we are already using it, and we love it. Still, read this entire section before making a switch, since our repository differs from the stock in several important ways. Be advised, this section is only for those who want to customize an existing Slackware install. If you installed from a FreeSlack ISO, then you don't need any of this.

To switch to the new repo, you have to

1. edit /etc/slackpkg/mirrors to use our repo,

   http://freeslack.net/fxp/slackware64-14.1/

2. uncomment the SLACKKEY line in /etc/slackpkg/slackpkg.conf and change it to

   SLACKKEY="Connie Dobbs (Free eXpansion Pack for Slackware)"

3. obtain our signing key (for example, with slackpkg update gpg) and force slackpkg update regardless of the ChangeLog state

Non-free packages were removed and replacements are provided:

1. linux-libre-headers replaces kernel-headers, and they collide in /usr/include
2. linux-libre-source replaces kernel-source, and the source is delivered as a single tarball, so no collision
3. linux-libre-image replaces kernel-huge, kernel-generic, and kernel-modules, and no collisions with the stock

Our kernel build scripts are found in http://freeslack.net/fxp/slackware64-14.1/source/fxp/build/linux-libre/, and we hope you will find them useful for manually upgrading your kernel.

The rest of the packages in our repository are unmodified official binaries, so you can think of this as a deblobbed mirror.