Links of General Interest for Slackers

The Slackware Book - this is the official Slackware book; required reading for all new Slackware users (and a good refresher for the more experienced among us) :).

The Slackware Wiki (unofficial) - this is a good source of documentation, tutorials, and other related information about Slackware.

SlackBasics - this is an unofficial but very good book written primarily by Daniel de Kok.

The ##slackware links page - this page lists general information, rules, and links related to the unofficial Slackware support channel on Freenode's IRC network.

The Slack World - the Slack World is a website dedicated to providing information and entertainment related to Slackware.

alt.os.linux.slackware - Usenet group for Slackware - be sure to read the FAQ, as it covers more than just A.O.L.S. topics.

Slackware Init Explained - this is good overview of Slackware's init, including why it's referred to as "BSD style" while still actually *being* SysV init.

AlphaGeek - alphageek (see #slackware on the oftc IRC network) maintains an unofficial mirror list (as well as a few other things) on his site.

Shilo's Slackware Site - shilo's site is a nice (though a bit out of date in some places) writeup about Slackware use.

Other Useful Stuff

My HOWTO Page - Just in case you didn't already see it...

http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ - the Filesystem Heirarchy Standard (FHS)- good resource.

http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txt - the official registry of allocated device numbers and /dev directory nodes for Linux.

Mirror of http://www.dirac.org/linux/system.map/ - This has a good explanation of why the System.map file exists and how it {is, can be} useful.

http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html - Daniel Drake's excellent work on how to write udev rules. This is included with the udev source tarballs (and in /usr/doc/udev-$VERSION on Slackware systems), but the newest version is always available on his site.

Netfilter/iptables Documentation - this is the documentation provided by the netfilter / iptables project. If you're looking for an introductory tutorial, see Oskar Andreasson's tutorial.

Beginner Guide to UNIX

Guide to Using SSH

Screen and IRSSI

Slackers' and Other Random Sites

http://www.bham-lug.org/ - Birmingham, Alabama Area Linux User Group

http://alien.slackbook.org/ and http://slackware.com/~alien/ - Eric Hameleers is a frequent contributor to Slackware.

http://piterpunk.info02.com.br/ - Roberto Batista (aka PiterPunk) is a regular contributor to Slackware and the author of slackpkg.

http://blog.batts.mine.nu/" - Personal site and blog of Vincent Batts, a BALU member and all around great guy!

http://mtu.homelinux.net - Michael Beuker's home page.

chessgriffin.com - In addition to being a pretty nice guy, Chess Griffin runs Linux Reality and contributes a good script to SlackBuilds.org every now and then... ;-)

http://slackadelic.com - Matt Hayes (aka Dominian)

http://textlinux.slackadelic.com - Martin Lefebvre (aka dadexter)

http://keepingyouhonest.com - FriedBob's personal site

http://nomius.blogspot.com - David Cortarello (aka Nomius)

http://fuhell.com - Thomas York (aka straterra)

http://chrisclymer.com - Chris Clymer (aka omal)

http://jeremyflint.com - Jeremy Flint's "Red Hot and Daily" blog; Jeremy is originally from my hometown (Meridian, Mississippi), and his blog name is a tribute of sorts to the old "Red Hot" truck stop.