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Lightweight desktop on Slackware. Paul Sherman’s tree, now eXybit. IceWM, preconfigured.
https://www.absolutelinux.org
Eric Hameleers (Alien Bob). Multilib, KDE, the packages Pat does not ship. Changelog neighbor.
http://www.slackware.com/~alien
The long-running forum. Install threads from the CD era still readable.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14
Modular Slackware live system. Runs from RAM. The USB-stick cousin.
https://porteus.org
Slackware with dependency tools and a desktop. Fully package-compatible. The bonsai pitch.
https://www.salixos.org
Community scripts. The way you add what Pat did not ship. Not a derivative — the unofficial shelf.
https://slackbuilds.org
The wiki. Philosophy page, the book, howtos. The doctrine in one place.
https://docs.slackware.com
1993, SLS fork, oldest still-maintained distro. Name from the Church of the SubGenius. "Get Slack."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slackware
"Linux for the fun of it." Zonker on the version number that is also a joke, and why Pat does not second-guess the user.
https://lwn.net/Articles/434279
Pat’s voice. The release notes that are also the community newspaper.
https://www.slackware.com/changelog
The book. Install, config, the official guide that shipped with the discs.
https://docs.slackware.com/slackbook:start
The Slackware Way. KISS, text files, released when stable, BDFL. "If it's not broken, don't fix it."
https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:philosophy
Official Slackware publisher from 1995. ftp.cdrom.com, the boxed sets, later BSDI then Wind River. The physical era.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walnut_Creek_CDROM
October 1995 disc 2. Sunsite and TSX-11 archives. The CD that still has the address in Walnut Creek.
https://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-3.0/disk1/readme.html
Desktop Slackware. One app per task, Xfce, netpkg. Formerly MiniSlack.
https://www.zenwalk.org
