Patrick Volkerding announced the formation of the third and final candidate for the Slackware 15.0 distribution, which has reached the 99% package freeze stage before release. An installation image has been prepared for download, sized at 3.4 GB (x86_64), along with a minimal build for running in Live mode.
The final changes before the freeze include an upgrade of the Linux kernel to version 5.15.14 (with the possibility of including version 5.15.15 in the release), KDE Plasma 5.23.5, KDE Gear 21.12.1, KDE Frameworks 5.90, eudev 3.2.11, vala 0.54.6, iproute2 5.16.0, firefox 91.5, thunderbird 91.5.0, sqlite 3.37.2, mercurial 6.0.1, pipewire 0.3.43, pulseaudio 15.0, mdadm 4.2, mesa 21.3.3, wpa_supplicant 2.9, xorg-server 1.20.14, gimp 2.10.30, gtk 3.24, freetype 2.11.1.
Slackware has been developing since 1993 and is the oldest existing distribution. Its features include a lack of complications and a simple initialization system in the style of classic BSD systems, making Slackware an interesting solution for studying the workings of Unix-like systems, conducting experiments, and getting familiar with Linux.
Source: opennet.ru
