====== External sites with Slackware related information ======

Slackware documentation and articles relating to Slackware can be found in many places.

If you could not find what you were looking for in this Wiki, try your luck with any of the following locations. And consider (after finding what you were looking for) if perhaps you could add the missing information as a new page or as a page update to this Wiki. We would be very grateful!

===== Documentation sites =====

  * [[http://slackbook.org/ | The Slackware Essentials Book]] \\ The original Slackware compendium
  * [[http://slackwiki.com/ | The SlackWiki]] \\ One of the oldest Slackware related Wiki's
  * [[http://wiki.alienbase.nl/ | Alien's Wiki]] \\ [[wiki:user:alienbob|Eric Hameleers]]'s documentation and tutorials.
  * [[http://wiki.linuxquestions.org/wiki/Slackware| LQ Slackware Wiki]] \\ Many goodies in this much overlooked corner of linuxquestions.org
  * [[https://github.com/willysr/slackbasics-i18n/ | Slackware Linux Basics]] \\ Daniel de Kok's book about basic Slackware administration

===== Slackware Presentations =====

  * [[http://slackware.com/~vbatts/2011_SELF/2011_SELF.pdf|Slackware Demystified]] - Vincent Batts, June 2011.
  * [[http://slackware.com/~alien/tdose2009/t-dose-slackware.pdf|A history of Slackware development]] - Eric Hameleers, October 2009.
  * [[http://slackware.com/~mozes/docs/slackware_pkg_presentation.pdf|An introduction to Slackware packages]] - Stuart Winter, February 2005.

===== Forums newsgroups and IRC =====
  * [[https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ | LinuxQuestions.org or LQ]]: a friendly and active Linux Community with many forums on anything Linux related and a dedicated Slackware forum. This is the place to go should this wiki not provide the answer you are looking for.
  * [[https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/alt.os.linux.slackware | Slackware newsgroup]]: You can connect to the Slackware newsgroup alt.os.linux.slackware through your own newsgroup reader or you can use google groups with your browser. In newsgroups you can also post questions. Many countries also have a local Slackware newsgroup in which you can post in your own language.
  * [[irc://irc.libera.chat/slackware | IRC:##slackware at libera.chat]]: You can connect to Slackware's channel through your favorite client. Host: irc.libera.chat. Channel: ##slackware. TLS port: 6697. With IRC you can chat directly with other Slackware users and gurus (experts).

===== News articles =====

  * [[http://slackagg.hashbangbash.com/ | Slackware Activity Aggregator]] Slackware RSS feeds.

===== Local Communities =====

  * [[http://slacky.eu/ | Slacky.eu]] The Italian Slackware community.
  * [[http://slackware-fr.org/ | Slackware-fr]] The French Slackware community.
  * [[http://slackware.ir/ | Slackware.ir]] The Iranian Slackware community.
  * [[http://forum.slackware.pl|Slackware-pl]] The Polish Slackware forum / community.

===== Fan sites and blogs =====

  * [[http://humanreadable.nfshost.com/sdeg/index.htm | A Slackware Desktop Enhancement Guide]]
  * [[https://alien.slackbook.org/blog/ | Alien Pastures]]
  * [[https://alphageek.slackware.nl/ | Erik Jan Tromp's site]]
  * [[http://slackware.com/~mrgoblin/index.php | Goblin's Slackware stuff]]
  * [[http://www.basicconfig.com/ | Linux basic configurations]] A blog with some Slackware-specific articles.
  * [[https://noctslackv1.wordpress.com/ | Nocturnal Slacker v1.0]] V.T. Eric Layton's Slackware and General Linux/Open Source blog.
  * [[http://slackware.ponce.cc/blog/ | Pimp my Slack]]
  * [[http://rlworkman.net/ | Robby Workman's Homepage]]
  * [[http://slackblogs.blogspot.com/ | SlackBlogs]] Willy Sudiarto Slackware blog.
  * [[http://someslack.wordpress.com/ | Some Slack]]
  * [[http://blog.tpa.me.uk/ | SysAdmin Adventures]]
  * [[https://bear.alienbase.nl/slackworld/ | The Slack World]]
  * [[http://www.gilandre.net/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi/SlackwareLinuxPage | Tiny Unix Wiki]] The Tiny Unix Wiki, a wiki about many flavours of Unix and Linux, including Slackware

===== Ports =====

  * [[https://arm.slackware.com/ | Slackware ARM]] The official port of the Slackware Linux distribution to the ARM architecture.
  * [[http://pandorawiki.org/Software_projects/OS/Slackware | Slackware for Pandora]] The Open Pandora pocket PC port.

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