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 ...

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 ...

FreeBSD and Slackware are both outstanding OSes. FreeBSD is more UNIX-like, while Slackware is more Linux-like. One is geared for servers, while the other is a bit more general. FreeBSD and Slackware.

Anyone with a significant interest in Linux distributions knows about Slackware Linux, so I'm not going to spend a lot of time talking about what it is, where it came from, how it has survived (and ...

A lot of Linux users steer clear of Slackware because it’s a challenge to administer and use. But Jack Wallen says the benefits of this distribution more than outweigh the difficulties. Slackware. You ...

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 ...

There are tons of Linux distros. Most of them are new, some of them are old, some of them so old they don't exist anymore. But there's one distro that has stood the test of time, surprisingly. And ...

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 ...

The world of desktop Linux is often portrayed these days as a battle primarily between longstanding leader Ubuntu and up-and-coming challenger Linux Mint, frequently with the suggestion that Mint is ...