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 ...

I wanted to install Slackware. I downloaded, checked md5, burned to CD, and rebooted. Selected media, selected target partition, selected a full install, and then told it to go ahead and install.

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 ...

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 ...