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 ...

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 has survived (and ...

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 ...

For me, it’s not just an anniversary; it’s a celebration of an operating system that truly changed the landscape and continues its steadfast journey. The story of Slackware began in late 1992 with ...

If you started using GNU/Linux in the last 10 years or so, there’s a very good chance your first distribution was Ubuntu. But despite what you may have heard on some of the elitist Linux message ...

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 ...

This week the Slackware Linux project is celebrating its 30th anniversary. It is the oldest Linux distribution that is still in active maintenance and development. Version 1.0 of Slackware was ...

A lot of Linux users steer clear of Slackware because it’s a challenge to administer and use. But Jack Wallen says the benefits of this distribution more than outweigh the difficulties. Slackware. You ...

Almost lost in the noise surrounding the release of Ubuntu 11.04, there was a new release of Slackware as well. Arguably the oldest of them all, Slackware is still chugging along very nicely under the ...