Slackware
Sign in to saveSlackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System (SLS), Slackware has been the basis for many other Linux distributions, most notably the first versions of SUSE Linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained.
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Slackware is one of the oldest actively maintained versions of Linux, an open-source operating system created in 1993 by Patrick Volkerding. It has been particularly influential in the history of Linux, serving as the foundation for other major Linux distributions including the earliest versions of SUSE Linux.
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- Slackware
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- Slackware logo from the official Slackware site.svgclass=skin-invert
- OS.screenshot
- Slackware 15.0 screenshot.png
- OS.caption
- Slackware 15.0 with KDE Plasma 5 as the desktop environment
- OS.developer
- Patrick Volkerding
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like) (based on Softlanding Linux System)
- OS.language
- Multilingual
- OS.userland
- GNU
- OS.ui
- CLI
- OS.license
- GNU General Public License
- OS.source_model
- Open source
- OS.working_state
- Current
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- Birth
- Development
- Historical documentation
- Design philosophy
- Development model
- Packages
- Management
- Dependency resolution
- Repositories
- Releases
- Support
- Hardware architectures
- Distribution
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- External links
Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. Originally based on Softlanding Linux System (SLS), Slackware has been the basis for many other Linux distributions, most notably the first versions of SUSE Linux distributions, and is the oldest distribution that is still maintained.
Slackware aims for design stability and simplicity and to be the most "Unix-like" Linux distribution. It makes as few modifications as possible to software packages from upstream and tries not to anticipate use cases or preclude user decisions. In contrast to most modern Linux distributions, Slackware provides no graphical installation procedure and no automatic dependency resolution of software packages. It uses plain text files and only a small set of shell scripts for configuration and administration. Without further modification, it boots into a command-line interface environment. Because of its many conservative and simplistic features, Slackware is often considered to be most suitable for advanced and technically inclined Linux users.