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 ...

I was thinking about gentoo linux, and it seems nice, but I've been using Slackware since 1998, and feel pretty attached. Slackware is a nice distribution, but I would like the benefits of compiling ...

Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring very quickly ...