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Slackware 13.1

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NewsBytes
NewsBytes Original post #1
Jul 22, 2010 at 1:29 PM
Slackware is one of the oldest Linux distributions around and it's well known for several reasons. It's been somewhat notorious for its installation process. It’s only when we got to the installation process that it became obvious that little has changed in that aspect. 
You really need to know a bit of what you're doing to get through the process without deleting partitions in the process. The installation still uses a ncurses based setup style. Packages can be manually installed and t...

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