Slackware Linux 12.1

Publisher's Description:

Slackware Linux is a complete 32-bit multitasking "UNIX-like" system. It's currently based around the 2.4 Linux kernel series and the GNU C Library version 2.3.4 (libc6). It contains an easy to use installation program, extensive online documentation, and a menu-driven package system. A full installation gives you the X Window System, C/C++ development environments, Perl, networking utilities, a mail server, a news server, a web server, an ftp server, the GNU Image Manipulation Program, Netscape Communicator, plus many more programs. It can run on 486 systems all the way up to the latest x86 machines (but uses -mcpu=i686 optimization for best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon).

Latest User Reviews:

Reviewer:	zridling	Jul 4, 2007
Version:	12.0
Dave, don't trust BetaNews for their outdated content: Slackware 12.0 runs the 2.6.21.5 version of the Linux kernel.
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Reviewer:	akker	Jun 26, 2007
Version:	12.0 RC2
The Dave, Slackware 12 comes with a 2.6 kernel by default and other major improvements over the previous versions. Check the changelogs, then talk. Anyway good job Patrick and the rest of the slack community.
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Reviewer:	ssb	Oct 4, 2006
Version:	11.0
Slackware used to be, and still is, the most professional Linux distribution. It is the only Linux distribution that fully complies with all published standards, (e.g.: Linux File System Standard etc.). This sounds simple but the truth is that almost all available distributions don't comply with the standards. I don’t use Linux, FreeBSD is my primary server OS but if I had to use Linux instead, Slackware would be my first choice!
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Reviewer:	AlEx707	Oct 3, 2006
Version:	11.0
You have to learn it or to know linux to use it, it's not a GUI driven OS, but it's rock-solid,small compare to others and you'll learn much more with it than w/o.
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Reviewer:	Ian C.	Sep 22, 2006
Version:	11.0 RC5
Tries to be more like BSD than other linux distros, why not just use BSD? I'm not a linux fan at all, but this is one of the better ones. Although if I was forced to choose linux, I'd pick debian.
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