Sunday, February 12, 2012

Slackware

Summary


Slackware is a free and open source Linux-based operating system. It was one of the earliest operating systems to be built on top of the Linux kernel and is the oldest currently being maintained.[1] Slackware was created by Patrick Volkerding of Slackware Linux, Inc. in 1993. The current stable version is 13.37, released on April 27, 2011.
Slackware aims for design stability and simplicity, and to be the most "Unix-likeLinux distribution, making as few modifications as possible to software packages from upstream and using plain text files and a small set of shell scripts for configuration and administration

Requirements


ProductSlackware 13 - Check requirements at the slackware site for updates.
ProcessorAny 486 CPU or better
RAM128 MB (1 GB+ recommended)
Drive space5 GB+ for full install
DrivesRuns from hard disk, USB flash drive
VideoVGA or better
File systemsExt2, read/write access to FAT

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