more than five years since the last release of published Release Distribution SLACKWARE 15.0 . The project has been developing since 1993 and is the oldest of the currently existing distributions. To download Available Installation image (3.5 GB), which is prepared for i586 and x86_64 . To familiarize yourself with the distribution kit without installation, Live Assembly (4.3 GB). A selection of additional packages with programs missing in the standard shipping can be found in the .
Despite the solid age, the distribution was able to preserve identity and simplicity in organizing work. Lack of complications and a simple initialization system in the style of classical BSD systems make a distribution to an interesting solution to study the work of UNIX-like systems, conducting experiments and acquaintances with Linux. The main cause of the long life of the distribution is the inexhaustible enthusiasm Patrick Folkerding , which for almost 30 years has remained the leader and the main project developer.
When developing a new issue, focused on the provision of new technologies and topical versions of programs without disturbing the identity and characteristics of the distribution. The main task was to make a distributive more modern, but at the same time keep the usual way to work in Slackware. Key Changes :
- Transition to the use of the PAM subsystem (Pluggable Authentication Module) for authentication and password storage in a separate file / etc / shadow.
- to manage user sessions instead of Consolekit2 is involved by ELOGIND, the Logind version that is not tied to SystemD, which has significantly simplified the delivery of graphic environments tied to certain initialization systems and allowed to improve support for XDG standards.
- Added support for the PipeWire multimedia server and is given the possibility of using it instead of Pulseaudio.
- implements a graphic session support based on the Wayland protocol, which can be used in the KDE in addition to the session on the X server’s database.
- Added new versions of user environments XFCE 4.16 and KDE Plasma 5.23.5. Packages with LXDE and LUMINA are available via SlackBuild.