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Patrick Volkerding, 44, grew up in Minnesota, and graduated from Minnesota State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science. He is a highly acclaimed and respected software engineer. He is the founder and present CEO of Slackware Linux Distribution. Volkerding, is a connoisseur of beer, and enjoys brewing his own beers. When he first developed software, he would ask admirers of his work to reward him with beer. He is also an avid Read the rest of this entry »

Take away all of the expensive upgrades. Take away all of the updates and large update files. Take away all of the hype behind the brand name. Remove all of these factors from your operating system and what do you have? The not-so-obvious answer is Slackerware.

Slackerware is an open source application that may not be known to many people, but it is a very simply operating system that is free. It doesn’t have all of the bells and whistles that has made Microsoft popular, but it doesn’t need them.

This great thing about this software is that Read the rest of this entry »

Patrick Volkerding Creates Slackware Operating System

The mastermind behind the Slackware Linux system (creator of the Slackware Linux system) is Patrick Volkerding. Creating such a system was the pride and joy of Patrick Volkerding’s entire career acomplishments. Slackware, a Linux based system (Linux is an assortment of different software including text documents, word processors, spreadsheets, audio software, and media software.), and was created in 1993. Volkerding is basically the CEO of the Slackware company, managing it with full force. The goal of Slackware is to make presented tasks slightly more easy to Read the rest of this entry »

Slackware is the oldest maintained distribution of Linux, a term used to refer to a number of operating systems originally patterned after UNIX and created from the Linux kernel built by Linus Torvalds in 1992. It originated with a series of changes made by Patrick Volkerding to the Softlanding Linux System (SLS) in 1993 that ultimately lead to the creation of Slackware Linux, Inc. Volkerding has remained the primary contributor to the operating system throughout its existence and has relied only on a small team of Read the rest of this entry »