SLACKWARE

Domain	Definition
Computing	Slackware A distribution of the Linux operating system by Patrick Volkerding , . cdrom.com (ftp://ftp.cdrom.com/pub/linux/) FAQ (ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/SLAKWARE.FAQ) Sunsite Linux archives (http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/). Sunsite mirrors (http://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/MIRRORS.html). (1995-03-01). Source: The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Specialty Definition: Slackware

Slackware is a Linux distribution. Slackware takes a different approach than other popular distributions such as Red Hat, Debian, Gentoo, SuSE, and Mandrake Linux. It might best be described as "UNIX-like", given its policy of incorporating only stable applications, and the absence of distribution-specific GUI configuration tools found in other varieties of Linux. Partisans have been known to say, "When you know Slackware, you know Linux... when you know Red Hat, all you know is Red Hat."

Slackware's approach to package management is also unique. Slackware's package management system can install, upgrade, and remove packages as easily as other distributions. But it makes no attempt to track or manage what are referred to as "dependencies" (i.e. ensuring that the system has all the supporting system libraries and programs that the new package "expects" to be present on the system). Debate on the relative merits of tracking or ignoring dependencies, while not as intense, is somewhat reminiscent of the "religious warfare" found in the longstanding UNIX "Vi versus Emacs" text editor debate. Slackware's approach to the problem seems to be well accepted by its often technically adept user base.

Slackware latest stable version is 9.1 (as of September 26, 2003), which includes support for ALSA, GCC 3.2.3, Linux kernel 2.4.22 kernel (but is 2.6.x ready), GNOME 2.4.0, KDE 3.1.4, and all the usual utilities.

There is also a current version that can be used if you like the bleeding edge distribution.

The first version, 1.00, was released on July 17, 1993 by Patrick Volkerding. The original 1.0 announcement can be found here [1]. It was based on the SLS Linux distribution and supplied as 90mm floppy disk images that were available by anonymous FTP. Slackware celebrated its 10th anniversary on July 17, 2003.

The name "Slackware" stems from the term "Slack," as defined by the Church of the SubGenius.

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Commercial Usage: SLACKWARE

Domain	Title
Books	Install, Configure, and Customize Slackware LINUX (with CD-ROM) (reference) (more book examples)

High Tech	Slackware Linux 7 (reference) (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Frequency of Internet Keywords: SLACKWARE

Anagrams: SLACKWARE

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-k-l-r-s-w"
	-2 letters: calkers, clawers, lackers, scalare, slacker, walkers.
	-3 letters: akelas, arecas, awakes, caesar, calesa, calker, carles, clawer, clears, clerks, craals, crakes, crawls, creaks, kraals, lacers, lacker, lakers, lascar, rackle, rascal, sacker, sacral, scalar, scaler, sclera, scrawl, screak, slaker, wackes, wakers, walers, walker, warsle, wracks, wreaks, wrecks.
	-4 letters: acres, akela, alack, alecs, araks, areal, areas, areca.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-k-l-r-s-w"
	+2 letters: blackwaters, cakewalkers, racewalkers, spacewalker.
	+3 letters: cracklewares, racewalkings, spacewalkers, trackwalkers.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro.

Alternative Orthography: SLACKWARE

Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 4C 41 43 4B 57 41 52 45

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

⁼

Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

... .-.. .- -.-. -.- .--. .- .-. .

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010111 01000001 01010010 01000101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#76 &#65 &#67 &#75 &#87 &#65 &#82 &#69

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 004C 0041 0043 004B 0057 0041 0052 0045

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

Expression	Frequency per Day	Expression	Frequency per Day
slackware	162	live slackware	3
linux slackware	41	install slackware	3
9 slackware	10	slackware linux download	2
9.0 slackware	7	ftp slackware	2
download slackware	7	iso slackware	2
samba slackware	6	9 download slackware	2
setup slackware snort	6	forum slackware	2
screenshots slackware	5	slackware tutorial	2
package slackware	5	review slackware	2
slackware snort	4	exploit slackware	2
boot disk slackware	3	ftp ftp.riken.go.jp linux pub slackware	2
9.0 linux slackware	3	9.0 install.iso slackware	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

SLACKWARE

Specialty Definition: SLACKWARE

Specialty Definition: Slackware

Commercial Usage: SLACKWARE

Books

High Tech