Linux.com: A Look at Slackware’s Package Utilities

“Slackware Linux is the oldest surviving Linux distribution.
Late last year the project marked 13 years of non-stop development
with the release of Slackware 11.0. The distribution is best known
for its no-frills, minimum customizations approach to applications
like KDE. It’s also notorious for its reluctance to switch to new
version of several popular applications like Apache or GCC. No
surprise then, that its package management system has seen little
change over the years and is still available in just one
flavor–vanilla.

“A Slackware package is a simple gzipped tarball of the form
name-version-architecture-revision.tgz, for example,
php-5.1.6-i486-2.tgz…”

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