Patrick Volkerding announced the start of testing of the release candidate for the Slackware 15.0 distribution, which marked the freezing of most packages before release and the focus of developers on fixing bugs blocking the release. An installation image has been prepared for download, 3.1 GB in size (x86_64), as well as a reduced assembly for running in Live mode.
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.
Slackware 15 has updated software versions, including the transition to the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GCC 11.2 compiler set, and the Glibc 2.33 system library. Desktop components have been updated to KDE Plasma 5.22 and KDE Gear 21.08.
Source: opennet.ru