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Slackware Linux Essentails 2nd Edition

Format: Paperback
Author: David Cantrell
ReleaseDate: 01 June, 2005
Publisher: FreeBSD Mall
Rating:

New?
Boudville's review is a little confusing. W. He seems to imply that Slackware is new. This is simply not correct. Page two of this very book states, "Slackware, started by Patrick Volkerding in late 1992, and initially released to the world on July 17, 1993, was the first Linux distribution to achieve widespread use. "


If you are interested in this book, I reccomend purchasing it only if you want to support the Slackware project. Otherwise, it is available for free online, at http://slackware. com/book/.

I am giving the book 3 stars, as this is more of a comment than a review, and I want to skew the results as little as possible.

why Slackware?
But these are minor. Yes, Slackware has differences with other linuxes like Fedora or SUSE. If you want a generic introduction to the essentials of linux, then this book will do you. It's perfectly adequate for that task.

A sharper question is why Slackware, instead of Fedora, say? Here the book is a little more problematic. Cantrell makes valid points, but this fragmentation of linux is a concern. Are the differences enough to justify an entirely new linux distro?.