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Article: Taking up the Slack.(Linux)
- Article from:
- Australian PC World
- Article date:
- June 1, 2004
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2004 IDG Communications Pty. Ltd - Australia. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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ZipSlack is a tiny Linux distribution designed to fit on a single 100MB Zip disk and is based on one of the oldest Linux distributions, Slackware Linux. It feels a lot like an older version of UNIX, which means that it is missing the user-friendly GUI configuration tools included with most modern distributions. However, attention has been paid to organising the system in a simple, easy-to-configure state. ZipSlack doesn't hold your hand, but it's great to play around with in order to learn how a Linux system is built.
Installing ZipSlack
To start, your computer must have a partition on your hard disk formatted with either the FAT or FAT32 file system. ...
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