Welcome to Slackware 8.1!
Slackware 8.1 is a complete distribution of the GNU/Linux operating system.
This version contains the 2.4.18 Linux kernel, plus recent versions of these
(and many more) software packages:
- C compiler gcc-2.95.3 and gcc-3.1
- Binutils 2.12.90.0.9
- GNU C Library glibc-2.2.5
- Shadow Password Suite shadow-4.0.3
- Util-linux util-linux-2.11r
- X Window System XFree86 4.2.0
For installation instructions, see the file 'Slackware-HOWTO'.
These are some of the important files and directories found on the Slackware
FTP site:
ftp://ftp.slackware.com/pub/slackware/slackware-8.1/
If you're reading this on a CD-ROM, these directories will probably be
split across several discs.