I've now got the slackware-current branch and built a bootable ISO from it. However I'm trying to boot this on an SMP Athlon system - and it doesn't work. I get the following no matter which of the ...

I've got Slackware 7.1 installed on my comp, and I'd like to bring it up to the current distro, 8.0. Is there an easy, risk-free way to do this? I know that 8 has a newer version of glibc, as well as ...

Slackel is a Linux distro a step away from the mainstream Debian-based Linux OS line. It is based on Slackware and Salix. Users already familiar with that lineage are more inclined to like Slackel.

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 ...