Slackware 15 released
Slackware 15 released
[Distributions] Posted Feb 4, 2022 0:41 UTC (Fri) by corbet
Version 15 of the venerable Slackware distribution has been released.
The challenge this time around was to adopt as much of the good stuff out there as we could without changing the character of the operating system. Keep it familiar, but make it modern. And boy did we have our work cut out for us. We adopted PAM (finally) as projects we needed dropped support for pure shadow passwords. We switched from ConsoleKit2 to elogind, making it much easier to support software that targets that Other Init System and bringing us up-to-date with the XDG standards. We added support for PipeWire as an alternate to PulseAudio, and for Wayland sessions in addition to X11.
A bit more information can be found in the release notes. Many of us got our start with Slackware; it is good to see that it's still out there and true to form.