Origins Of The Slackware Operating System
September 12th, 2011 | 
Author: 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 developers for assistance.This/tag helps explain it more.
Slackware Linux distinguishes itself from other distributions by remaining as true to its UNIX origins as possible. Unlike its contemporaries, Slackware-s default user interface is a command line rather than the more traditional window-based graphical display. A text-based interface is also used for installation and administration, although some administrative tasks are performed through ASCII-based dialogs. All aspects of the operating system are designed to remain as simple and stable as possible.
Since its inception at least one new version of Slackware has been released each year, with the current version for i386 and x86_64 architectures standing at 13.37 since April 27, 2011. Future release dates are not made available for Slackware.