Linux distribution Slackware has dropped the GNOME desktop environment from its version of the open source operating system, claiming that it is too much work to maintain it. The most recent release ...

Slackware is one of those Linux distros often described as being difficult to use. The Slackware Project version 14.2 released on July 1 does little to change that view — at least, as far as ...

I have had a couple of goes at trying to install KDE1 from Mandrake 6.1 onto Mandrake 8.2 and Slackware, but neither of them seem to want to do it?<BR><BR>Is it me or what?<BR><BR>I say this because ...

Over this series test-driving operating systems, we’ve tried to bring you the unusual, the esoteric, or the less mainstream among the world of the desktop OS. It would become very boring very quickly ...