Patrick Folkerding (Patrick Volkerding) announced About formation of the third, last, candidate for distribution releases distribution Slackware 15.0 , which reached a stage of freezing 99% of packages before release. To download prepared Installation image, 3.4 GB (x86_64), as well as abbreviated Build to run in Live mode. From the final changes, the Linux kernel update is noted to version 5.15.15
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 classical BSD systems, which makes Slackware an interesting solution for studying the work of UNIX-like systems, conducting experiments and dating from Linux.