How To Install, Set Up And Run Slackware

[Alexzee]

Hot off the press.
Just finished writing this tutorial for Slackware 15 on my Linux Fixes Blog.

If you need help I'd be happy to pitch in.

How To Install, Set Up And Run Slackware 15 Stable

Slackware Linux was designed by Patrick Volkerding in 1993. He is the founder and maintainer of Slackware. Slackware came from a system called Softlanding Linux systems. At the time it was the dominant GNU distrubution. Slackware Linux started out as a private collection of Volkerding's patches...

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[wizardfromoz]

Alex, this looks very very good to me.

I have just skimmed through it so far, but will use it as a template when I install Slackware and see how it goes.

Just a typo here, you may want to correct

IF you don't want to loose your Sbo packages and your alien packages after an update/upgrade you will need to edit the blacklist file.

The word should be "lose".

Thanks for sharing.

Wiz

 

[f33dm3bits]

Aweomse work @Alexzee! I have never installed or used Slackware but looking at how the installation goes it doesn't seem that hard and it reminds me of the FreeBSD installation process. Thanks for sharing!

 

[Alexzee]

Alex, this looks very very good to me.

I have just skimmed through it so far, but will use it as a template when I install Slackware and see how it goes.

Just a typo here, you may want to correct



The word should be "lose".

Thanks for sharing.

Wiz

Fixed this misspelling, thanks!

 

[Alexzee]

Aweomse work @Alexzee! I have never installed or used Slackware but looking at how the installation goes it doesn't seem that hard and it reminds me of the FreeBSD installation process. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks, you're welcome-