An old hacker slaps up Slackware

Posted by dave on Oct 26, 2005 1:30 AM EDT
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Slackware is old-school Linux. Back in the day -- before Red Hat seized the throne -- Pat Volkerding's Linux distribution was the undisputed king of the hill. Many still use it today. By the time I started playing with Linux in 1995, or running my Web server with it in 1996, Slackware's slump in market share had already begun. I've tried a lot of different Linux distributions during the years since then, but until recently I had never tried Slackware. Here's what I've learned about Slackware while installing and using the recently released Slackware 10.2.

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I tried Slackware and now I want to change to Linux avenger 22 6,261 Oct 27, 2005 1:07 PM

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