Patrick Volkerding announced the formation of the third and final release candidate for the Slackware 15.0 distribution, which has reached the stage of freezing 99% of packages before release. An installation image of 3.4 GB (x86_64) in size has been prepared for download, as well as a shortened assembly for launching in Live mode.
Among the final changes before freezing, the update of the Linux kernel to version 5.15.14 (the possibility of inclusion in the release of release 5.15.15), KDE Plasma 5.23.5, KDE Gear 21.12.1, KDE Frameworks 5.90, eudev 3.2.11, vala 0.54.6 is noted. 2, iproute5.16.0 91.5, firefox 91.5.0, thunderbird 3.37.2, sqlite 6.0.1, mercurial 0.3.43, pipewire 15.0, pulseaudio 4.2, mdadm 21.3.3, mesa 2.9, wpa_supplicant 1.20.14, xorg-server 2.10.30 , gimp 3.24, gtk 2.11.1, freetype XNUMX.
Slackware has been in development since 1993 and is the oldest distribution in existence. The distro features a lack of complexity and a simple initialization system in the style of classic BSD systems, which makes Slackware an interesting solution for learning how Unix-like systems work, experimenting, and getting to know Linux.
Source: opennet.ru