Slackware: Secure all the way back to 8.1

Slackware provides security updates all the way back to version 8.1 along with 9.0, 9.1, 10.0, 10.1, 10.2, 11.0 and 12.0, so if there is a reason you’re using an older version of Slack, it is still being supported by the distro’s creator, Patrick Volkerding and his team. If you didn’t follow the link, you won’t know (until now, anyway) that the box running Slackware.com is a 600 MHz Pentium II with 512 MB of RAM. That’s plenty old for such a busy server.

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