What is Slackware?
Slackware was the first Linux distribution to achieve widespread use. It was started by Patrick Volkerding in late 1992. He had gotten introduced to Linux when he needed an inexpensive LISP interpreter for a project. At that time, there were very few distributions, so Patrick went with the distribution from Soft Landing Systems (SLS Linux).
However, SLS had some problems, so Patrick started to fix little bugs as he found them. Eventually, he decided to merge all of those fixes into his own distribution for himself and friends. This private distribution quickly gained popularity, and Patrick made it available to the public under the name of Slackware.
Along the way, Patrick added new things to the distribution like a user-friendly installation program based on a menuing system and the concept of package management. This allows users to easily add, remove, or upgrade software packages from their system.
Popular Posts
-
du stands for disk usage. This simple linux command provides a summary of harddisk or storage space disk usage. It has many parameter argume...
-
When developing applications, it is common to interact with various tools that require a network connection to function correctly. However, ...
-
How to block long list of consecutive IP address? How to call linux route command inside a script? How to block consecutive IP address usi...
-
Function to convert UTF-8 to WIN-1251 charset. function iconv-win1251 { if [ ${1%\.*} == ${1##*\.} ]; then newfile="$1-win1251&quo...
-
It is good to know that it's possible to play those classicNintendo NES games on any Android device with physical keyboard (Motorola Bac...
-
Using imagemagick imagemagick is a collection of tools and libraries for image manipulation. Most distribustions come with imagemagick . ...
-
A common problem with computers is when you have a number of large files (such as audio/video clips) that you may want to get rid of. You ca...
-
Shell scripting is a way to write programs that run on Unix/Linux systems. It's a powerful skill to have since it allows users to automa...
-
Who says you have to pick between a netbook and the coming onslaught of standalone tablet devices? Okay maybe some (eh hem Apple), but Leno...