Slash (a backronym for Slashdot-Like Automated Storytelling Homepage) is the open source collection of Perl modules and stand-alone programs which runs Slashdot, one of the oldest and most popular collaborative weblogs in existence. Slash was originally written by Rob Malda. It was later rewritten for version 2.0 by Patrick Galbraith, Chris Nandor, and Brian Aker. Today Slash is maintained by Nandor, Jamie McCarthy, Tim Vroom, Scott Collins, Chris Brown, and Jonathan Pater. The package is often incorrectly called Slashcode, which is the name of the website and SourceForge project. An operating system (OS) is a computer program that manages the hardware and software resources of a computer. ... A cross-platform (or platform independent) programming language, software application or hardware device works on more than one system platform (e. ... To meet Wikipedias quality standards, this article or section may require cleanup. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, typically common to a particular domain name or subdomain on the World Wide Web on the Internet. ... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (often abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ... Rob Malda Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. ... Jonathan Pater is an editor and co-founder[citation needed] of Slashdot. ... Anonymous Coward is a term applied within some online communities to describe users who post without a handle; it is a dummy name attributed to anonymous posts used by some weblogs that allow posting by people without registering for accounts. ... The Slashdot effect is the term given to the phenomenon of a popular website linking to a smaller site, causing the smaller site to slow down or even temporarily close due to the increased traffic. ... Geeks in Space was a semi-weekly Internet audio show produced from June 1999 to June 2001. ... A backronym or bacronym is a type of acronym that begins as an ordinary word, and is later interpreted as an acronym. ... Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Modularity (programming). ... A computer program is a collection of instructions that describe a task, or set of tasks, to be carried out by a computer. ... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (often abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ... A weblog (now more commonly known as a blog) is a web-based publication consisting primarily of periodic articles (normally, but not always, in reverse chronological order). ... Rob Malda Rob Malda (born May 10, 1976), also known as CmdrTaco, is the founder of the website Slashdot. ... Sourceforge. ...

Slash is designed to be run on top of the Apache HTTP Server with mod_perl and a MySQL database for data storage and retrieval. It runs Slashdot (which has spawned many imitators, called SlashClones) and is released under the terms of the GNU General Public License. Many other websites use various customized versions of this software for their own web forums. Apache HTTP Server is a free software/open source web server for Unix-like systems, Microsoft Windows, Novell NetWare and other operating systems. ... mod_perl is an optional module for the Apache web server. ... MySQL (pronounced ) is a multithreaded, multi-user, SQL Database Management System (DBMS) with more than six million installations. ... The term database originated within the computer industry. ... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (often abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ... The GNU logo The GNU General Public License (GNU GPL or simply GPL) is a widely used free software license, originally written by Richard Stallman for the GNU project. ...

The last distribution release of Slash was version 2.2.6 in July 2002, but the currently running code on Slashdot is available on public CVS via the Slash website (though the theme files and a few private plugins are not available to the public). July 2002 : January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - December // Events See also: Afghanistan timeline July 2002 July 31, 2002 The Foreign Relations Committee of the United States Senate begins hearings on the proposed invasion of Iraq The Stock Market continues its recovery from the Stock... Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters (often abbreviated as /.) is a technology-related news website which features user-submitted and editor-evaluated current affairs news with a nerdy slant. ...

See also

Free software Portal

• List of content management systems
• Scoop

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External links

• Slash homepage ("For All Things Slash")
• Slashcode's SourceForge.net project page
• Lottadot Slash developer page (list of slash-based websites)

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