The release of Slackel 8.0 has been published, built on the foundations of the Slackware and Salix projects, and fully compatible with the repositories they offer. The key difference of Slackel is the use of the constantly updated Slackware-Current branch. The graphical environment is based on the Openbox window manager. The size of the bootable image capable of running in Live mode is 3.6 GB (i386 and x86_64).
The new release is synchronized with the Slackware Current branch and comes with Linux kernel 6.12.39. Updated software versions include firefox 140.0.4, thunderbird 140.0.1esr, libreoffice 25.2.1, GIMP 3.0.4, smplayer 25.6.0, mpv 0.40.0, MPlayer 20250330, exaile 4.1.3, brasero 3.12.3, isomaster 1.3.17, pidgin 2.14.142, and transmission 2.94.
The distribution supports packages in flatpak format and utilizes graphical utilities developed by the Slackel project:
- instonusb — installation on a USB drive;
- multibootusb — organizing the boot of multiple systems from a USB drive;
- SLI (Slackel Live Installer) — for installation on an external or internal drive;
- install-upgrade-kernel-ext-usb-gtk — GUI for kernel updates in installations on a USB drive;
- install-upgrade-kernel-gtk — GUI for kernel updates on a local drive.
Source: opennet.ru
