Slackware
The oldest maintained distro: simple, stable and Unix-like, with no dependency resolution by design. See how developers rate it month by month on DTDb.
- Category
- Linux distribution
- Developer
- Patrick Volkerding and the Slackware team
- Created by
- Patrick Volkerding
- First release
- 1993
- License
- GPL and other free licenses
- Open source
- Yes
- Pricing
- Free
- Website
- https://www.slackware.com
- Family
- Independent
- Based on
- Independent
- Package manager
- pkgtools, slackpkg
- Package format
- Slackware txz
- Release model
- Fixed releases
- Release cadence
- Irregular, with -current rolling in between
- Support lifetime
- Until long after the next release
- Init system
- SysVinit
- Default desktop
- KDE Plasma (choice in the installer)
- Immutable
- No
- Made for
- Desktop, Server
- Backed by
- A community
- Beginner friendliness
- 1 of 5
- Architectures
- x86_64, x86, aarch64 (-current)