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Welcome to the Slackware Documentation Project

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Introducción a Slackware

¿Por qué usar Slackware?

Slackware tiene una larga tradición de excelencia. Comenzó en 1992 y liberado en 1993, Slackware es la distribución Linux más antigua en mantenimiento. El enfoque de Slackware es en hacer un Linux limpio y simple.Una distribución lo más parecida posible a UNIX lo convierte en una opción natural para aquellas personas que realmente quieren aprender sobre Linux y otros Sistemas operativos similares a UNIX. En una entrevista de 2012, el fundador de Slackware y dictador benevolente de por vida, Patrick Volkerding, lo expresó así.

“Trato de no dejar que las cosas se conviertan en malabares por el simple hecho de hacerlas diferentes. Las personas que vuelven a Slackware después de un tiempo tienden a sorprenderse gratamente de que no necesitan volver a aprender cómo hacerlo todo. Esto nos ha dado muchos seguidores leales, por lo que estoy agradecido.”

La simplicidad de Slackware lo hace ideal para aquellos usuarios que desean crear sus propios sistemas personalizados. Por supuesto, Slackware también es genial como escritorio, estación de trabajo o servidor.

Diferencias en comparación con otras distribuciones de Linux

There are a great number of differences between Slackware and other mainstream distributions such as Red Hat, Debian, and Ubuntu. Quizás la mayor diferencia es la falta de “hand-holding” que Slackware hará por el administrador. Many of those other distributions ship with custom graphical configuration tools for all manner of services. In many cases, these configuration tools are the preferred method of setting up applications on these systems and will overwrite any changes you make to the configuration files via other means. These tools often make it easy (or at least possible) for a rookie with no in-depth understanding of his system to setup basic services; however, they also make it difficult to do anything too out of the ordinary. In contrast, Slackware expects you, the system administrator, to do these tasks on your own. Slackware provides no general purpose setup tools beyond those included with the source code published by upstream developers. This means there is often a somewhat steeper learning curve associated with Slackware, even for those users familiar with other Linux distributions, but also makes it much easier to do whatever you want with your operating system.

Also, you may hear users of other distributions say that Slackware has no package management system. This is completely and obviously false. Slackware has always had package management (see Package Management for more information). What it does not have is automatic dependency resolution - Slackware's package tools trade dependency management for simplicity, ease-of-use, and reliability.

Licensing

Each piece of Slackware (this is true of all Linux distributions) is developed by different people (or teams of people), and each group has their own ideas about what it means to be “free”. Because of this, there are literally dozens and dozens of different licenses granting you different permissions regarding their use or distribution. Fortunately dealing with free software licenses isn't as difficult as it may first appear. Most things are licensed with either the Gnu General Public License or the BSD license. Sometimes you'll encounter a piece of software with a different license, but in almost all cases they are remarkably similar to either the GPL or the BSD license.

Probably the most popular license in use within the Free Software community is the GNU General Public License. The GPL was created by the Free Software Foundation, which actively works to create and distribute software that guarantees the freedoms which they believe are basic rights. In fact, this is the very group that coined the term “Free Software.” The GPL imposes no restrictions on the use of software. In fact, you don't even have to accept the terms of the license in order to use the software, but you are not allowed to redistribute the software or any changes to it without abiding by the terms of the license agreement. A large number of software projects shipped with Slackware, from the Linux kernel itself to the Samba project, are released under the terms of the GPL.

Another very common license is the BSD license, which is arguably “more free” than the GPL because it imposes virtually no restrictions on derivative works. The BSD license simply requires that the copyright remain intact along with a simple disclaimer. Many of the utilities specific to Slackware are licensed with a BSD-style license, and this is the preferred license for many smaller projects and tools.

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  • Originally written by Alan Hicks, Chris Lumens, David Cantrell, Logan Johnson

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