The release of the Slackel 7.5 distribution kit has been published, built on the developments of the Slackware and Salix projects, and fully compatible with the repositories offered in them. A key feature 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 boot image capable of working in Live mode is 2.4 GB (i386 and x86_64). The distribution can be used on systems with 512 MB of RAM.
The new release is synchronized with the current branch of Slackware and ships with the Linux 5.15 kernel. Updated program versions, including firefox 95.0.2, thunderbird 91.4.1, libreoffice 7.2.0, filezilla 3.56.0, smplayer 21.10.0, gimp 2.10.30. The fbpanel panel and a set of auxiliary graphical applications for configuring the system are used. Full support has been implemented for installing the distribution on external USB drives or SSD drives to obtain a portable working environment. The ability to update the environment installed on external media and encrypt user data is supported.
Source: opennet.ru