The past few years have witnessed one of the most intensive periods of development in Slackware. This has led to the release of Slackware Linux 13.1. Slackware comes with it a lot of changes from previous version, which also includes a completely reworked collection of X packages. What this means is that a configuration file for X is no longer needed in most cases.

Slackware Linux can best be described as a complete 32-bit multitasking system. It is modeled around the GNU C Library version 2.3.4 (libc6) and the 2.4 Linux kernel series. It also comes with a menu-driven package system and; extensive online documentation. A complete installation provides a user with the X Window System; C/C++ development environments; news server; networking utilities; mail server; Perl; web server; GNU Image Manipulation Program; FTP server; Netscape Communicator, and so much more.

It is designed to run on 486 systems even as far as the latest x86 machines. Though it uses –mcpu=i686 optimization to provide users with the opportunity to experience its best performance on i686-class machines like the P3, P4, and Duron/Athlon.

The major setback of Slackware Linux 13.1 is the complexity of installation. It would have come highly rated had it not been for the complexity of installing it.

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