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Philosophy

Slackware wants to be to be a light distribution , fast and without ornaments. She dissociates herself by a procedure of installation in semigraphic mode, a system of software parcellings simply made up of files tarballs without management of the dependences, like by a process of starting resting on a whole of easily modifiable scripts " with the main" (it does not have besides a software of configuration centralized). From these characteristics, she is extremely appreciated on the waiters.

It should be noted that it is also the oldest distribution still in activity, having been during good a long time the work of only one man, Patrick J. Volkerding. With the passing of years, it accepted the assistance of some contributors - very little - in order to help it in the development of Slackware (also because of its disease which prevented it from contributing fully to Slackware during the year 2005). Everyone awaited the death of this distribution maintained by only one man and yet, more than one ten years afterwards, it is conscientiously held up to date, always popular and is used as bases for many derived distributions.

The slackware-current is the current version, i.e. the version available between the stable version already published and that to come. You can easily pass from the stable version to the current version thanks to the utility Swaret, this last also allowing to install packages easily coming from Internet.

The stable last version is the 12.0 (on July 2nd 2007) and it comprises GCC 4.1.2, the core Linux 2.6.21.5, KDE 3.5.7, Xfce 4.4.1, Xorg 7.3.0, Hal 0.5.9.1, SeaMonkey 1.1.2 (replacing the continuation Mozilla) and all usual utilities.

The first version, 1.00, left the July 17th 1993, and Patrick J. Volkerding is the author. The original advertisement can be seen here. Slackware celebrated its tenth birthday the July 17th 2003. It was historically one of the first making it possible to make turn Linux in situ since a CD-ROM, as of 1995.

Slackware is the last major Linux distribution using a procedure of initialization BSD, and not System V.

List distributions and projects based on Slackware

Distributions

Derived from Slackware for Intel (x86):

Blin - Ukrainian Distribution.
Burapha Gnu/Linux - Distribution inhabitant of Thailand developed by a team of the university of Burapha.
CEMF - Brazilian Distribution which operates inside directly a partition or Windows installation.
College - Distribution Swiss which claims to be based on Debian, but whose management of the packages is in .tgz; the distribution became a LiveCD.
Cytrun - Brazilian Distribution developed in order to increase the security levels of the waiters.
Darkstar - Rumanian Distribution.
Frugalware - Hungarian Distribution developed by Miklos Vajna.
HostGIS - Distribution étasunienne, especially developed to operate cartographic Web servers GI.
iWhaX - Distribution étasunienne directed towards safety and the networks; it is old the WhaX .
JoLinux - Brazilian Distribution compiled with the Linux core of branch 2.6 per defect.
KateOS - Polish Distribution developed by Damian Rakowski.
Kinux - Brazilian Distribution.
NimbleX - Rumanian Distribution developed by Bogdan Radulescu.
OpenLAB - South-African Distribution, intended for teaching in the schools and faculties; apart from South Africa, it is adopted in Namibia and Germany; it is the distribution for which the software EduKar, OpenBook and ZybaCafe was developed; there is also a LiveCD which can be downloaded freely, but the whole of 4 CD S/1 DVD and the software external are charged.
Polux (in the past P! tux ) - French Distribution being able to be installed on old computers (known as ordinosaures), it is old the Drinou Linux .
PC Master - Brazilian Distribution.
Plamo - Japanese Distribution in Japanese language to facilitate the " slackage" Japanese users.
pQui - Brazilian Distribution for the desktop machines.
Revenge - Brazilian Distribution simultaneously derived from Slackware and Fedora.
RFS - Brazilian Distribution.
RIP (Recovery Is Possible) - Distribution étasunienne implemented for the recovery of data.
Root - Swedish Distribution developed by John Eriksson.
RUNT (ResNet USB Network To test) - Distribution Linux étasunienne developed by a team of the university of North Carolina to be installed in key USB as on diskettes which will interact together; the distribution is directed towards the tests of networks and gates USB.
SauverOS - Indian Distribution developed by Maulik Gordhandas.
Tukaani - Finnish Distribution whose strong point is the management of packages through its installor pkgtools and of its compactor and starter LZMA: they compatibilisent packages with the formats .tgz, .tbz, .tlz and .tar.
VectorLinux - Canadian Distribution developed by Robert S. Lange; it is presented in the form of an excellent alternative to give new uses to old PC.
Volta - compatibilized Italian Distribution 100% of double management of packages: pkgtool of Slackware for the system and pkgsrc of NetBSD for the applications; in other words, with Volta Linux , there is practically Slackware and NetBSD functioning in the same operating system.
ZenServer - French Distribution for the waiters, based on Zenwalk .
Zenwalk - French Distribution developed by Jean-Philippe Guillemin, it contains improvements such as a core 2.6 and the support of Reiser4. This distribution is optimized for the multi-media one, the development and office automation.); it is old the MiniSlack.

Slackware for AMD64:

Slamd64 - Distribution British, bearing on architecture AMD 64 bits (AMD64; X86 64).
Bluewhite64 - Rumanian Distribution, bearing on architecture AMD 64 bits (AMD64; X86 64); had in form of LiveCD installable and DVD installation.

Slackware for ARM:

ARMedslack - Distribution étasunienne related to the Architecture ARM.

Slackware for IBM S/390:

Slack/390 - Distribution étasunienne, bearing on architecture IBM S/390.

Slackware for PowerPC (MackIntosh):

SlackIntosh - Distribution Swiss, bearing on architecture PC (PowerPC).

Slackware for SPARC:

Splack - Distribution étasunienne, bearing on architecture SPARC.

LiveCD

4Bak - Canadian for the recovery of contents developed by Sylvie Migneault; it is old the DDbackup .
AliXe - Francization and personalization of SlaX ; Canadian LiveCD developed by a montréalienne which is identified only by " Alisou" but which with the site of the 4Bak reveals to be Sylvie Migneault itself; the LiveCD aims at promoting Slackware and the SlaX between the French-speaking users.
Arudius - directed safety with the safety, based on Slackware and Zenwalk .
Austrumi - settles temporarily in memory RAM by défault; developed by Andreijs Meinerts and others.
BackTrack - Swiss founded on Slackware and SlaX ; it amalgamates old the Auditor Security Linux with old WHAX , its goal is towards safety.
College - Swiss which pleads to be based on Debian, but whose management of the packages is in .tgz.
DNA - Argentinian founded on SlaX .
eMoviX - Italian directed towards the execution of multi-media. See MoviX
GoblinX - Brazilian which, installed on an hard drive, convert the packages .tgz of Salckware in modules .mo
KlaX - German clone of SlaX for the presentations and promotions of KDE.
LiveCD Router - Argentinian projected towards the operation of networks and connections Internet.
MoviX - Italian directed towards the creation of multi-media.
MoviX ² - Italian directed towards the execution of multi-media.
MutageniX - Continuation of LiveCD S American.
Privare - Canadian, it is old the eLearnix , before FreeLoader Linux ; it is practically a course Linux in the form of operational system founded on Slackware.
SlAmpp - Dutch founded on SlaX but with the packages of Slackware; indicated like a simple solution for personal waiters.
SlaX - check based on Slackware and KDE developed by Divided into volumes Matejicek; installed on an hard drive or in pendrive, it converts the packages .tgz of Salckware into modules .mo
STuX - Italian.
Tereré - Brazilian projected for the systems of authentification of suppliers and lan houses.
WolviX - Norwegian based on SlaX .
ZenLive - French based on Zenwalk.

Not-Decontaminated distributions and LiveCDs

With the first sight, those appear abandoned, but makes some they did not only change their names and are found in top with their new names.

DDbackup - become 4Bak .
Drinou - become P! tux .
eLearnix - become Privare .
FreeLoader Linux - become Privare .
MiniSlack - become Zenwalk .
WhaX - become iWhaX .

Semi-Decontaminated distributions and LiveCDs

Litrix Linux - Brazilian distribution which continues activates, but which starting from its version 3.0 changed Slackware for Gentoo as bases; it is developed by Vagner Rodrigues.

Decontaminated distributions and LiveCDs

BearOps Desktop - Canadian distribution, abandoned in 2001.
Buffalo - American distribution, abandoned in 2005.
Definity - Brazilian distribution developed by a company in Curitiba, PR; given up in 2003.
Evil Entity - American distribution directed towards the edition of multi-media; given up in 2004, it is not known if its announced successor, Arcano Linux, were activated.
gNox - British LiveCD whose management in modules would make it possible to join modules directly to the images .iso; distro abandoned in 2005.
NetwosiX - Italian distribution directed towards the safety of networks; given up in 2006.
SentiniX - Swedish distribution directed towards the safety and with the monitoration of networks; given up in 2003.
Ultima - American LiveCD which was developed by Martin Ultima, given up in 2005.

Other Distributions and LiveCDs with Slackée Philosophy

Aegean - Belgian distribution founded on Arch Linux.
Arch - Canadian distribution developed by Judd Vinet, inspired in the Linux Crux.
archie - Malaysian LiveCD based on Arch Linux.
the Crux - Swedish distribution by Per Lidén and others, with a system of Ports to the FreeBSD.
DeLi - German distribution developed by Henry Jensen for extremely old equipment, with the system of Ports to the FreeBSD of the Linux Crux and which still the place at the disposal under measurement for Slackware.
Gobo - Brazilian distribution installable and simultaneously LiveCD - according to what one digite - which has a tree hierarquic complètemant with its own way.
Underground Desktop - Italian Distribution Linux.

See too

Internal bonds

External bonds

The Slackware Linux Project the official site of the project Slackware Linux
Information on the starting of the type System V

Simple: Slackware

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