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 ...

I'm gearing up to do a fresh installation of Slackware 8.0. I want to use a journaling file system, and I have chosen ext3. My question is, how do I have setup install onto ext3 partitions? Do I need ...

Just to make sure -- have you verified that the Slack 9.1 install disk is OK? Assuming you can boot off CD-ROM (and you CAN), I would be surprised that the Slackware install disk wouldn't work. How ...

Slackware is one of those Linux distros often described as being difficult to use. The Slackware Project version 14.2 released on July 1 does little to change that view — at least, as far as ...

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 ...

I am old. I have been working with Unix for a long time. In fact, at the end of a recent job interview one of the participants said to me "It's interesting, you have more years of Unix experience than ...

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 ...