First, I want to say that I was unsure if this should go into Which Distro topic, since it doesn't have to do entirely with choosing a distribution. While you'll understand what I mean in a moment, if ...

I install the very minimum and I am slowly building up my system.<BR><BR>I copied the contents from the slackware directory from CD to a directory called slackware<BR ...

Back in 1991, a computer science student named Linus Torvalds announced on a newsgroup that he was creating a "hobby OS." That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating ...

Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...

Sometimes, a utility or an application that you want to install is impossible to find in the format of your distribution. Alien is a utility that can convert one package type into another. It can get ...

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.