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A Slackware Desktop Enhancement GuideAn Important Starting Point—Documentation and Online Resources© Copyright Darrell Anderson. A common complaint against Slackware is a lack of documentation. Perhaps at various times in the past such a claim possessed merit, but today that claim cannot hold. Slackware is fairly well documented today, but users must understand that the bulk of the meaningful documentation is provided by end-users and not the distro maintainer. DocumentationThe fundamental Slackware bookmarks: The Slackware Web Site There are some primary web sites beginning Slackware users should bookmark and become familiar: Slackware Linux Basics Often unknown (and sometimes forgotten) is that a lot of documentation is already packaged directly with Slackware: /usr/doc/Linux-How-TOs Although not related to Slackware directly there is: The Linux Documentation Project Getting Help Online—The Slackware CommunityDocumentation provides a good starting point and foundation, but often people need some hand-holding and old-fashioned mentoring. There are several online discussion forums available where users help each other: Linux Questions (The Officially Sanctioned Support Forum) Slackware comes packaged with three popular packages not directly supported by the distro maintainer but well supported by the user community: KDE Documentation Third Party Package SupportBecause of the minimalist design approach with Slackware, many people incorrectly believe that the distro fails to provide many needed software packages. Many of those additional packages are provided by members of the Slackware community. A primary location to obtain additional software packages: SlackBuilds.org Remember to look in the /extras directory in the Slackware directory tree. The CD location of this directory varies with each Slackware release, but is always available at any Slackware mirror web site. |
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