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Slackware is among the more venerable active distros –the oldest of them all in fact.

While very apprecieated among expert users because of its design simplicity and transparence, Slackware is, in general, reliable and ligh but not too easy to set up and use. Those very characteristics had render it a good starting point for other distros to build up on usability. Absolute Linux is one of them

Customized Slackware.

Absolute Linux is Paul Sherman’s work, a longtime Slackware user who took upon himself the task to modify the old distro in order to improve user friendliness without losing the good features that have made it so long-lived.

Some of the features in Absolute Linux are:

• Lightness. The system requirements are so friendly to old computers that it can run in almost any system, including the older ones.
• Easy installation. Keeps the text based Slackware installer but its modified in order to make the process swift and easy.
• Desktop oriented. The software included in the single Absolute Linux install CD is selected for the desktop and personal user, not the webmaster.
• Reliability.
• 100% Open Source.

Absolute Linux is aimed towards the Windows user who is sick of blue screens, or having half the system’s resources eaten up by security software trying to keep virii and malaware in check. It’s also a good choice for people with a really old computer they want to bring back to life.

The system requirements to run Absolute Linux are:

• A Pentium or later processor.
• 48 to 64 minimum RAM.
• 3 to 4 GB available hard disk space.
• The ability to boot from a CD-ROM.

Version 12.0.6

Is based on Slackware 12, as announced by Paul Sherman today at the Asolute Linux Webpage, it’s free to download and use, and can be downloaded from ibiblio as a .zip archive or an .iso burnable image.

Have a look at the web page. Among other things it features a detailed installation guide with lots of screencaps.