Patrick Folkerding (Patrick Volkerding) announced About the beginning of the testing of the candidate for releases distribution distribution Slackware 15.0 , which marked the freezing of most packets before release and focusing developers to eliminate errors blocking release. To download Prepared Installation image, 3.1 GB size (x86_64), as well as abbreviated Build to run in Live mode.
Slackware has been developing since 1993 and is the oldest of the currently existing distributions. The features of the distribution are the lack of complications and a simple initialization system in the style of BSD classic systems, which makes a Slackware an interesting solution to study the work of UNIX-like systems, conducting experiments and acquaintances with Linux.
in Slackware 15 updated software versions, including transition to the Linux 5.13 kernel, the GCC 11.2 compilers set and the GLIBC 2.33 system library. Desktop components are updated to KDE Plasma 5.22 and KDE Gear 21.08.