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 ...

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 installing Slackware 8.1 and it froze on an advanced part of the installation, during individual package selecting and installation, specifically when it was installing gnome's control center, i ...

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 ...

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 ...

PorteuX is a live distro based on Slackware, designed with lightweight images and modular software installation options. Installing PorteuX is easy by extracting the ISO image onto media. It can also ...

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 ...

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 ...