Newly Released: Slackware Linux Essentials, 2d Ed.

VincenzoRomano writes to point out that as of a few days ago, "Slackware Linux has its second revision of the Slackware Linux Essentials book. It is a major revision of the the reference book for Slackware users and is now an official Slackware project. Slackware Linux is the oldest and yet pretty active Linux distribution born from an idea by Patrick Volkerding and that turned 12 a few months ago. It follows the KISS(Keep it Simple, Stupid!) philosophy, which seems to be one of the reasons of its long life. The book itself has been created by David Cantrell, Logan Johnson and Chris Lumens and is available both in printed (dead-tree) form and in electronic form (HTML/DocBook/PS/PDF). Whether your are a Slackware aficionado or not, the book deserves a look at least!"

Comments

Re:Anyone have a link for a downloadable version?

[robw810]

You should try actually visiting the links in the summary - this one http://www.slackbook.org/ has the following visible without even scrolling:

The Book
* Split HTML
* Single-page HTML
* DocBook Source
* Post script
* PDF

I guess it's a bit much to ask for someone to do a little bit on their own - perhaps that's why Slackware isn't as popular as some other distros...

RW

Re:Who uses Slackware anyway?

[frank_abacus]

I think it would pay you to take a look at a more recent Slackware distibution. Quite a lot's happened since the 3.X days.

Once on the security mailing list you get advised whenever a new package has been updated to fix some security hole, and then you can just upgradepkg from the new package, if you need to.