Slackware

Download Slackware Linux 13.0

Submitted by k4tz on Fri, 08/28/2009 - 14:50

Patrick Volkerding has announced the release of Slackware Linux 13.0, a major update of the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution: "After one of the most intensive periods of development in Slackware's history, the long-awaited stable release of Slackware 13.0 is ready.

Download Slamd64 Linux 12.2

Submitted by k4tz on Tue, 02/03/2009 - 10:30

Fred Emmott has announced the release of Slamd64 Linux 12.2, an unofficial port of Slackware Linux to the x86_64 architecture:

Download MOPSLinux 6.2

Submitted by k4tz on Sun, 02/01/2009 - 07:32

MOPSLinux is a Russian desktop-oriented distribution based on Slackware Linux. Version 6.2, released earlier this week, is based on Slackware Linux 12.2 with an improved system installer, a user-friendly package management system, a choice of two desktops (KDE 3.5.10 or KDE 4.1.3), 3D desktop effects with Compiz Fusion, and a new desktop design.

Download Absolute Linux 12.2.1

Submitted by k4tz on Fri, 01/09/2009 - 11:08

Paul Sherman has announced the release of Absolute Linux 12.2.1, a lightweight desktop distribution based on the recently released Slackware Linux 12.2:

"Absolute 12.2.1 released. This is primarily a security update. Several major applications have recently undergone security-related updates: Firefox, Samba, SeaMonkey, Pidgin and Thunderbird.

Linux popularity across the globe

Submitted by k4tz on Sat, 08/23/2008 - 08:21

Source: http://royal.pingdom.com/?p=340

The Linux landscape is constantly changing and has a strong community of both developers and users. But where is Linux the most popular, and where are the different Linux distributions the most popular?

To try to answer these questions, we have looked at data from Google with the highly useful Insights for Search, which gave us a number of interesting and often surprising results.

Download GoblinX 2.7

Submitted by k4tz on Wed, 07/16/2008 - 10:47

Flavio Pereira de Oliveira announced the availability of GoblinX 2.7 Standard, a Slackware-based desktop distribution and live CD: "After more than four months of development, as GoblinX 2.6 was released at February 18, we are pleased to announce the availability of the new stable edition... It includes five Windows Managers: KDE, Fluxbox, Xfce, Enlightenment and WindowMaker. Main upgrades since rc01 edition: Corrected some small errors and bugs.

Which Linux Distributions Are Dying?

Submitted by k4tz on Fri, 07/04/2008 - 11:10

I just read Louis Gray’s post titled “On the Web, If You’re Not Growing, You’re Dying.” It gave me a chilling realization about web services. Like everything else, what goes up must come down. This must apply to Linux distributions too, right? So, what’s happening with Linux? Which distributions are growing? Like Louis Gray, I’m going to use data from Google Trends. People searching the name of Linux distributions on Google can be considered new users. After all, wouldn’t experienced Linux users already know where the websites of the big Linux distributions are?

Let’s start out with Debian. I’ll note here that if you want to see the Google Trends search results, and not just the screenshot, you can click on the images.