Web server extensions - Chapter 14 . Running Slackware Linux 401 Anything
Chapter 14 . Running Slackware Linux 401 Anything you can do with other Linux distributions, you can do with Slackware. It might just take a bit more manual work to get there. Slackware doesn t yet officially use a full-featured package management system, such as the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) or Debian s deb files. However, some software package management tools are compatible with Slackware s native package format: gzipped tar archives. (I describe these tools later.) In general, however, most Slackware users become adept at building and installing their own applications (using tar, make, and similar tools). Slackware comes with a good set of libraries that will take care of the dependency needs of most Linux applications. However, for video, audio, and some other types of applications, you may find yourself hunting around for libraries. The tools for satisfying package dependencies (such as yum and apt) that save you this trouble in other distributions are beginning to be developed or adapted to Slackware. Characterizing the Slackware Community Like many other successful Linux distributions, Slackware was started by a strongminded individual who created the kind of Linux system that suited him. Slackware users are people who pretty much agree with him. The Slackware Creator Patrick Volkerding started Slackware in 1993 as a Linux distribution to use for himself and his friends. He was kind enough to answer some questions I had about Slackware, and I want to share his answers with you here: Patrick originally used a Linux distribution called SLS Linux (named after Soft Landing Linux, the company that made it). Why didn t he just contribute to SLS instead of starting his own distribution? Patrick: I tried. By April of 1993 I had collected a huge list of bugs in SLS, along with the fixes for most of them. Plenty of people tried to get these to Peter MacDonald (SLS s author/maintainer) but the bugs in SLS (many of which were quite obvious) never seemed to get fixed. Of course, I d started work on my patched version of SLS with no plan to try to launch a lasting distribution. I figured I d get it online and SLS would fix the issues, and that might just be that. SLS was a great distribution and isn t given enough credit for all the ideas that started there. Unfortunately it was while Peter was busy working on inventing kernel modules that SLS sat online for a few months full of bugs and not getting any updates. Note
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