One is the world's oldest Linux distro, the other isn't Linux at all. Each delivers superb stability - let's compare.

The makers of Slackware Linux, the oldest Linux distribution still maintained, have just released version 15.0 of the Linux distribution. Slackware Linux emerged in 1993 and founder Patrick Volderding ...

One of the biggest ongoing challenges for Linux advocates has always been that there is such a paucity of data available to demonstrate the preferences of the people who are actually using the free ...

Hello everyone, I am trying to install slack 9 as the guest operating system (windows xp is running vmware), I start the virtual machine and boot the slack cd, then I run fdisk but it says there are ...

Why it matters: Debian is not the oldest Linux operating system out there, being just a month "younger" than Slackware. But the project started by Ian Murdock certainly is the most successful, as it ...