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This site is dedicated to providing the latest news about the Slackware
Linux distribution, as well as installation help, configuration help, and
other general information about Slackware Linux.
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The Founder and Project Coordinator
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Patrick Volkerding
Also known to many as "The Man" and as Slackware's
BDFL,
without Patrick, there would be no Slackware. He has worked for
many years and continues to work on this popular and extremely
stable distribution. Patrick earned his BS in Computer Science
from Minnesota State University Moorhead in 1993.
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David Cantrell
David worked full-time on Slackware Linux for several years handling the
SPARC port, technical support email, and other things such as testing
and new package development. In addition to those things, he also wrote
the autoslack and protopkg utilities.
To see what David's up to lately, visit his personal web site at
www.burdell.org.
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Chris Lumens
Chris also worked full-time on the Slackware project for several years,
and is now employed (along with David) by another large commercial
Linux distribution. Chris worked to port Slackware to the Alpha
platform (Slackware64(tm)), and was responsible for much of the
Slackware Linux Essentials book, including the formatting and all
that. He's also worked on PHP and MySQL stuff.
Chris really likes Perl, but would love to find an excuse to learn some
really weird languages. In his free time, Chris generally plays around
with his various systems. He's also really trying to get back into
backpacking, paintball, and other outdoors things. You can check out
his personal site at bangmoney.org.
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Curious about the machine running this site, eh? Also fairly high on
the importance scale (for this site, anyway) is the box
itself. The machine is a Pentium III, 600 MHz, with 512 megabytes of
RAM. It runs (of course) Slackware Linux, and does an efficient and
reliable job even with moderately old hardware. The slackware.com
site has been known to run for well over a year without a reboot.
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Each page is meticulously carved and refined by our expert craftsmen using
vim, then proofed using Firefox.
The site is designed to be viewed with at least a 640x480 display, but
it also looks good in Lynx. The backend for the site (which controls
the news items and a few other things) is written almost entirely in PHP.
Various other little support scripts are written in Perl.
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