Cライブラリにはglibc 2.5、コンパイラにはgcc 4.1.2、ウインドウシステムにはX11 7.2.0など、主要なパッケージも最新版に更新されている。 Slackware Linuxは、tarとgzipで書庫化したパッケージ方式が特徴のLinuxディストリビューション。

Linuxが誕生して20年、 さまざまなディストリビューションが世に広まっているが、 Linuxが現在のように普及するまでには ...

Slackware Linuxの開発者 Patrick Volkerding氏は8月6日(米国中央部夏時間)、同OSの次期リリース「Slackware Linux 13.0」のリリース候補第2版(RC2)を公開した。Volkerding氏は「やるべき課題はいくつもあるが、X環境はすこぶる安定しており、正式リリースもまもなくという ...

Slackware, the second GNU/Linux distribution to be released to the public, is turning 30, with its founder Patrick Volkerding saying he was likely to release a beta of version 15.1 soon. In a short ...

The makers of Slackware Linux, the oldest Linux distribution still maintained, have just released version 15.0 of the Linux distribution. Slackware Linux emerged in 1993 and founder Patrick Volderding ...

Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

Being first doesn’t guarantee success in the technology industry. Remember the Netscape browser? Still, it can have its advantages, such as a different or unique approach to things. Such is the case ...

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 ...

Plamo Linuxは、 初期のLinuxディストリビューションの代表であったSlackware Linuxを元にした、 過度な自動化よりもシンプルな見通しの良さを大事にしているディストリビューションです。 開発から10年が経過 ...

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 ...

Many of today's new Linux users wouldn't have a clue as to who Patrick Volkerding is. For the brigade whose main arguments are over the merits of this GUI and that, the word Slackware wouldn't ring a ...

The latest release of Slackel Linux renews and improves the mashup of Slackware and Salix built around an Openbox pseudo desktop environment. Slackel 7.2 hit the download servers on July 20, eight ...