| Official Slackware distribution of Linux plus complete archive. 4CDs. Available in English, French, Italian, German, and Japanese. |
Developed by Linus Torvalds and hundreds of volunteer programmers on the Internet, Linux is a clone of the UNIX operating system.
Patrick Volkerding created the Slackware distribution of Linux, and authored this CDROM set. Linux Slackware 96 turns your machine into a multitasking workstation with a full range of software development, text editing, and image processing tools.
What's more, you'll be able to connect your machine to the Internet and use electronic mail or news.
This package includes everything you need to install and run Slackware Linux 96. You get complete source code and compilers.
The first CDROM contains the easy to install Linux system (kernel 2.0.0) source code, and a live Linux file system. The other CDROMs contain Linux programs and documentation from popular Linux ftp sites around the Internet, such as sunsite.unc.edu, and tsx-11.mit.edu.
Official Slackware Linux 96 requires 4MB of memory (8 is recommended) and at least 12MB of hard disk space to run in a CDROM dependant mode. You don't need to repartition your hard disk, you can install Slackware on a DOS partition. Depending on what you install, applications can use anywhere from 40 to 300 MB. A minimal hard drive installation with C and C++ development tools, networking, electronic mail and news, the XFree86 X Window System (version 3.1.2) and several applications requires around 80MB.
Linux Slackware 96 is compatible with most 386SX or better PC hardware. The advanced features of the Linux 2.0.0 kernel provide stellar performance on high-end systems, including support for symmetric multiprocessing (up to 16 processors) PCI, and special code optimizations for the 486, Pentium, and Pentium Pro. Slackware supports most CDROM drives, sound cards, ethernet cards, and mice. (If it doesn't work for you, return it for an unconditional refund).
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Price: $39.95
Subscription: $24.95
Released: August 1996
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