Slackware Linux Essentials

By David Cantrell, Logan Johnson and Chris Lumens

The Slackware Linux operating system is a powerful platform for Intel-based computers. It is designed to be stable, secure, and functional as both a high-end server and powerful workstation.

This book is designed to get you started with the Slackware Linux operating system. It's not meant to cover every single aspect of the distribution, but rather to show what it's capable of and give you a basic working knowledge of the system.

As you gain experience with Slackware Linux, we hope you find this book to be a handy reference. We also hope you'll lend it to all of your friends when they come asking about “that cool Slackware Linux operating system you're running”.

While this book may not an edge-of-your-seat novel, we certainly tried to make it as entertaining as possible. With any luck, we'll get a movie deal. Of course, we also hope you are able to learn from it and find it useful.

And now, on with the show.

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Slackware Linux Unleashed

By Kamran Husain

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This book is about Linux, a clone of the UNIX operating system that runs on Intel 80x86-based machines, where x is 3 or higher.

You'll find a CD-ROM at the back of the book that contains the Slackware 96 release of the Linux operating system. With this CD-ROM and this book, you should, I hope, be up and running with a UNIX-like operating system in a few hours.

Linux is also very portable and flexible because it has now been ported to DEC Alpha, PowerPC, and even Macintosh machines. Some of these ports are not complete as this book goes to print, but progress is being made daily by Linux enthusiasts all over the world to make this free operating system available to all the popular computing machines in use today. Because the source code for the entire Linux operating system is freely available, developers can spend time actually porting the code instead of wondering about whom to pay hefty licensing fees.

Documentation for the many parts of Linux is not very far away either. The Linux Documentation Project (LDP) is an effort put together by many dedicated and very smart individuals to provide up-to-date, technically valuable information. All of this LDP information can be found on the Internet at various Linux source repositories. Snapshots of the LDP and other Linux documentation files are also provided on the CD-ROM at the back of this book. Each "HOWTO" document for Linux is the result of effort from many Linux enthusiasts. The original authors of these documents are usually also the core Linux developers who have put in hours of time and effort while struggling with new features of Linux.

These individuals are the ones who deserve the credit and glory for the success of Linux as a viable, powerful operating system.

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