Please consider adding the following handy tools to the base:

It's a user-friendly and well-featured FTP client. Extremely useful for scripting, even for sites that needs passwords.

+ NcFTP is a user interface to the Internet standard File Transfer Protocol. This program allows a user to transfer files to and from a remote network site, and offers additional features that are not found in the standard interface for ftp.

this might be hard, since I did not find it in slackware current.

It will:

*only backs up what's changed like rsync does (so each backup doesn't take long). *keeps a history of changes (which means that you can restore a file you deleted three weeks ago!) *does secure backups over a network (using ssh). *backups up partitions while they are mounted (so it's easy to automate a daily backup … no unmounting necessary). *can restore everything if your hard drive goes belly-up and you have to buy a new one. *scales to backup large networks (linux is fine, windows is more difficult) and is used by businesses. *is a command-line-driven app, so it's great for those who like to do things like automate backups in a powerful way (ie a bash script which is called by cron). *remembers and deals with file ownerships and permissions, and also deals with symbolic links (and all that sort of stuff) so when you restore, you get things exactly as they were.

Ref: http://manual.sidux.com/en/sys-admin-rdiff-en.htm#rdiff

please consider adding the xosview to the core x11 module.

It depends purely on X libs, and is only 146k in size. However it gives visual and accurate system info that includes everything you'd like to know.

http://www.linuxpackages.net/search_view.php?by=name&name=xosview&ver=11.0

I'm having problem compiling the pkg myself, thus I'm making the request.

What do you think my further requests? I.e.,

I've added ncftp to 003_base_app, I don't have any room left for other things. The other two apps might end up as packages in the repository.

documented on: 2007-06-20, wolven