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ZipSlack is a special version of Slackware Linux. It's an already installed copy of -Slackware that's ready to run from your DOS or Windows partition. It's a basic -installation, you do not get everything that comes with Slackware.

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ZipSlack gets its name from the form it's distributed in, a big .ZIP file. Users of -DOS and Windows will probably be familiar with these files. They are compressed archives. -The ZipSlack archive contains everything you need to get up and running with -Slackware.

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