Slackware
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General
Since the first release of Slackware in April 1993, the author Patrick Volkerding the aim has been to produce the most UNIX®-like Linux distribution available with the twin goals of ease of use and stability as top priorities.
A quite general opinion is that Slackware isn't the easiest Linux distribution for a rookie; you should probably have a close friend using Slackware so you have someone to ask a couple of hundred quiestions. In return you get a Amateur Radio friendly operating system where you easily get the functions for Packet Radio and AMPRNet up and running.
Warning: Many people have had trouble to get the functions for radio amateurs up and running in Slackware 12 - consider if you should go for version 11 instead!
Latest version
Here you can read the announcement of Slackware 12, released in July 2007. Slackware 12 is the first Slackware version to support the 2.6 kernel series exclusively.
You find a list of mirrors where you find Slackware here.
Take a look at lists of packages included in Slackware 11 and Slackware 12.
A couple of change logs can be found for Slackware 10.0, Slackware 10.1, Slackware 10.2, Slackware 11.0, Slackware 12.0 and Slackware -current.
