head & tail report errors on boot and shutdown This is a glibc/POSIX issue. If you want to fix it, you can add export _POSIX2_VERSION=199209 to the top of /etc/rc.d/rc.S libwrap.so is missing so telnetd (amongst others) doesn't work. Don't expect gcc or anything in binutils to work. They're Debian packages I converted to Slackware format to see if I could use them. I can't (but I didn't try hard, and you'll be missing gcc-g++ too). Some stuff like rdist (amongst others) require the gcc/g++ support library which is missing. OpenSSL man pages are.. wrong. fdisk, cfdisk, rdev are missing. I can't think of anything else that might be broken, but I'm sure there's lots.