Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System (SLS), Slackware has been the basis...

System ANNOUNCE: The Linux Base System "The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Release Announcement". Slackware.com. July 16, 1993. Archived from the original...

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from .mo to .sb). Slackware-Live! 1.8.0.1 was based on Slackware 8.0. Slackware-Live! 1.81.0.21 was based on Slackware 8.1. Slackware-Live! 2.9.0.1 was...

features Slackware 12 compatibility. This is accomplished by the inclusion of almost all the dependencies needed for the installation of Slackware packages...

Linux distribution based on Slackware. Salix OS retains full backwards compatibility with Slackware. This enables Slackware users to benefit from Salix...

lightweight Linux distribution that works on older hardware and is based on Slackware Linux. The client is designed for everyday use (internet, multimedia,...

original on 2018-01-25. Retrieved 2016-10-27. "The Slackware Linux Project: Installation Help". Slackware.com. Retrieved 2016-10-27. "absolute linux downloads...

20, 1966) is the founder and maintainer of the Slackware Linux distribution. Volkerding is Slackware's "Benevolent Dictator for Life" (BDFL), and is also...

"KISS". Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Minimalism Unix philosophy Arch Linux Slackware Linux Chartjunk List of software development philosophies Reduced instruction...

Debian". Retrieved 19 November 2009. "Index of /slackware/slackware-15.0/slackware/t". mirrors.slackware.com. Retrieved 7 August 2023. "Ubuntu – Details...

3 Dartmouth), SUSE Linux Enterprise Server (from SLES 12), Slackware Linux (from Slackware 14.1) and OpenBSD (from 5.7). The MariaDB Foundation was founded...

group of developers who once maintained a Linux distribution based on Slackware. The chosen name "XZ" is not an abbreviation but instead appears to be...

It is the default FTP server in the Ubuntu, CentOS, Fedora, NimbleX, Slackware and RHEL Linux distributions. It is licensed under the GNU General Public...

Windows), .apk (Android) and .ipa (IOS, IPadOS). Arch Linux's Pacman and Slackware use 'tar' archives with generic naming but specific internal structures...

While most Live CD linux distributions used Aufs as of November 2016, Slackware used overlayfs for its live CD. Here is an example of usage of OverlayFS...

needed to run Slackware Linux on an ARM or i386 system. (Whereas the majority of Linux systems boot into a graphical user interface, Slackware's default user...

the Slackware Linux distribution that was designed to be lightweight and portable. It was distributed in a ZIP archive along with the Slackware release...

management system with emerge or one of the alternative package managers. Slackware is a highly customizable distribution that stresses ease of maintenance...

Jean-Philippe Guillemin. It is based on Slackware with very few modifications at system level making it 100% compatible with Slackware. It aims to be a modern, multi-purpose...

business unit (comprising BSD/OS and the former Walnut Creek FreeBSD and Slackware Linux open source offerings) to Wind River Systems and renamed the remainder...

Syngress. p. 329. ISBN 9781597496087. "The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware Security Advisories". Slackware.com. 2009-04-26. Retrieved 2011-07-09. "SourceForge...

the second-oldest Linux distribution still in active development: only Slackware is older. The project is coordinated over the Internet by a team of volunteers...

here to a different level which provides the equivalent functionality. Slackware Linux uses runlevel 1 for maintenance, as on other Linux distributions;...

especially in the Linux community. Patrick Volkerding, the project lead of Slackware Linux, invoked this design principle in a criticism of the systemd architecture...

slapt-get is an APT-like package management system for Slackware. Slapt-get tries to emulate the features of Debian's (apt-get) as closely as possible...

considered to be rather buggy by its users. It was soon superseded by Slackware (which started as a cleanup of SLS by Patrick Volkerding) and Yggdrasil...

environment intended for use in Slackware. As Slackware has not included GNOME since 2005, Dropline GNOME is an option for Slackware users who wish to use GNOME...

released on May 10, 2011. This version also seen the base OS changed from Slackware to Ubuntu. BackTrack provided users with easy access to a comprehensive...

was somewhat compatible with System V, while some distributions such as Slackware use BSD-style startup scripts, and other distributions such as Gentoo...