In the world of Android, devices have to go through a certain right-of-passage in order to really be embraced by the community. Part of the journey is becoming rooted, and thanks to XDA Forum member Chandon, the LG G-Slate has officially passed this portion of the test.
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The process is nowhere near as easy as it is for, say, the Galaxy Tab 10.1, so don't expect a simply copy/paste or even a one-click root. This process is actually 19 steps long, and it requires the use of a Linux machine as you need to mount the files as ext4, which is not currently supported in Windows.
If you don't have access to a Linux box, don't fret - this method has been verified to work using both a Wubi installation of Ubuntu Linux and Ubuntu running inside of a VMWare virtual machine. You could probably make this work from a LiveCD as well, though I can't verify that as I haven't tried it myself.
If you think you're up to the task, head over to the source thread on XDA and give it a shot, but make sure to drop us a line when it's all said and done to let us know how it went.