This new version of Slackware, includes kernel 5.15, KDE Plasma 5.23, support for both Qt4 and Qt5. To put that into perspective, when Slackware 15 started its development process, Ubuntu 16.04 had just been released (we’re about to see the release of Ubuntu 22.04). This latest iteration was in development for six years. Slackware 15 was only just recently released. After all, if you were able to work with those early releases, this new age of simplified Linux is a cakewalk.īut, again, every so often I want to remind myself from whence I came.Įrgo, I decided I need to kick the tires of the latest release of Slackware. It wasn’t easy but it certainly set me up to succeed with modern Linux distributions.
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So, when I harken back to those days of yore, I remember the ncurses installers, the challenging network configurations, the manual building of just about any package you want to install.
And with Linux, forward means modern, productive, user-friendly and just works. There are moments when I think, “I miss the old days of Linux when things were a bit more challenging.” I know … it’s crazy, right? We don’t ever want to move in reverse, it’s always forward, forward, forward. Jack Wallen goes old-school with Slackware 15 and comes out feeling exactly like he did with the previous release of this timeless Linux distribution. Slackware 15 is a throwback to old-school Linux with a modern kick
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