| Official Slackware distribution of Linux plus complete archive. 4CDs. |
NOTE: Slackware is now being released more often. Subscribers should take note that they can expect 3-4 releases per year!
Slackware is heavy-duty for mid-size businesses and departments but user-friendly enough for home users. - Info World
Official Slackware Linux turns your machine into a powerful 32-bit multi-tasking workstation. Linux is a Unix clone, developed by Linus Torvalds and thousands of volunteers on the Internet.
Develop programs with a full range of software development, text editing, and image processing tools. Play popular games. Connect your machine to the Internet and set up a WWW site, use electronic mail, and read netnews.
Patrick Volkerding, the author of Slackware, authored this CDROM. The first CDROM contains the easy-to-install Linux system (kernel 2.0.30), source code and a live Linux file system. Recompile with complete source code! For the other CDROMs, Patrick carefully selected the best software from Internet Linux archives.
Official Slackware Linux requires 4-8 MB of memory and 12 MB of hard disk. For better performance, install Slackware Linux to your hard disk using 40 to 300 MB. An installation with C/C++, development tools, networking, the XFree86 X Window System (v. 3.3), and several applications uses 80 MB.
A fuller installation includes teTeX TeX, GNU C/C++/Objective-C (v. 2.7.2.2), GNU Fortran-77 (v. 0.5.20), Tcl (v. 7.5), Tk (v. 4.1), TclX (v. 7.5.0), make, byacc and GNU bison, flex, the 5.4.33 C libraries, gdb, GNU Common LISP (v. 2.2.1), p2c (Pascal to C), m4, perl (v. 5.004), rcs, emacs (v. 19.34), TCP/IP networking, SLIP/PPP, IP accounting and firewalls, kernel Java support and Java SDK, BSD sendmail (v. 8.8.6), cnews, nn, tin, trn, inn, fvwm95-2, XF86Setup, ghostscript, xv (v. 3.10a), GNU chess, xfm (v. 1.3.2), gnuplot, xfractint, the Apache HTTP (WWW) server (v. 1.2.0), and the Arena and Lynx Web browsers.
Official Slackware Linux is compatible with most Intel hardware & supports most CDROM drives, sound, ethernet, and mice. The advanced 2.0.30 kernel will provide stellar performance on high-end systems, including support for symmetric multi-processing (up to 16 processors), PCI, and special code optimizations for the 486, Pentium, Pentium Pro, and Pentium II.
Join the hundreds of thousands of other Slackware users around the world who have found a better way to compute!
Among the leading Unix (World Wide Web) servers. - PC Magazine
Price: $39.95
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Released: July 1997
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