All glibc-dependant programs should now compile and work under 7.0. Slackware uses a package manager called pkgtool, with a subset of individual commands allowing installation, creation, exploding, removal, checking and upgrading of packages. These packages are created in an UNIX-standard TGZ format. Slackware has the capacity to install RPMs, but it is not recommended because RPM's method of checking dependencies causes problems. As from version 7.0, Slackware's GUI setup has been vastly improved.
Users can now choose whether to boot straight into X or go to the command line.
At the command line, running the simple xwmconfig utility allows quick and painless switching between a selection of GUIs, including KDE, Gnome, Enlightenment, BlackBox, fvwm95 and Afterstep. Also from version 7.0, Slackware now includes BigSlack to complement to the original ZipSlack. BigSlack is effectively the same as ZipSlack, but includes all the X packages missing from its smaller brother. Besides stability, Slackware fosters simplicity. This doesn't mean Slackware is limited in any way, only that it isn't unnecessarily complicated.