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OSDir: Pocketlinux: From Slack Blah to (KDE Light) Bling

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Aug 31, 2005

“During my daily night cap on DistroWatch I came across an
interesting new Linux distribution called Pocketlinux. A quick scan
through the release announcement said ‘pocketlinux is a new
Slackware-based distribution created by former developers of the
Bonzai Linux distribution. Its main features are a simplified
Slackware installer…’ Whoa… okay I’ve read enough… where’s
the download link?

“I’ve installed/Live CD booted a few Slackware based distros
before like slax, Mutagenix and GoblinX which were all pretty
descent (especially slax – nice job boys). When it comes to
installing Slackware (here comes the hate mail), I run the other
way

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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