Slackware Linux操作系统由Patrick Volkerding创建于1992年，是现存最古老的Linux发行版。从现在已经停止SLS计划项目，Slackware 1.0起始使用了24张软盘，并在Linux内核版本0.99pl11 -α之上。它迅速成为最流行的Linux发行版，有人甚至估计在1995年其高达80％的Linux安装市场份额。

Joe BrockmeIEr 研究了 Slackware Linux init 进程。他讨论了系统如何初始化服务、各种运行级别是什么，以及如何从缺省安装中添加或除去服务来定制系统。 Linux 用户正日益成熟，这意味着他们想要将系统配置成执行他们希望完成的任务。但目前 Linux 发行版通常都附带 ...

IT之家 7 月 22 日消息，至今仍在维护的历史最悠久的 Linux 发行版本 Slackware 本周迎来了自己的三十岁生日，其最初的发布者 Patrick Volkerding 今天仍在维护着该发行版。 图源 Slackware 官方 Patreon 账号 本周 Volkerding 在一份简短声明中庆祝了这一历史节点，并对 ...

The Slackware Linux Project has released their version 12.2 distribution. Every time I do something with Slackware it brings back a lot of memories... going to Usenix conferences 10+ years ago, and ...

Slackware Linux 13.1 Anyone with a significant interest in Linux distributions knows about Slackware Linux, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about what it is, where it came from, how it ...

People sometimes ask which distribution to try if they want to learn how Linux works. Common answers are Gentoo, Arch, or Debian. However, I disagree. Each of these distros teach users their ...

Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

Being first doesn’t guarantee success in the technology industry. Remember the Netscape browser? Still, it can have its advantages, such as a different or unique approach to things. Such is the case ...

Slackel is a Linux distro a step away from the mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line. It is based on Slackware and Salix. Users already familiar with that lineage are more inclined to like Slackel.

Give a man Ubuntu, and he'll learn Ubuntu. Give a man SUSE, and he'll learn SUSE. But give a man Slackware, and he'll learn Linux. Well, so the old internet maxim goes, but while it's normally used ...

The world of desktop Linux is often portrayed these days as a battle primarily between longstanding leader Ubuntu and up-and-coming challenger Linux Mint, frequently with the suggestion that Mint is ...

After months of development, one of the most important Linux distributions was released today. Of course I’m talking about Slackware 13.37. Oh, and the Ubuntu Project released 11.04 today too — though ...