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Slackware Linux 15.0 Beta released

Posted on Apr 16, 2021 by kingbeowulf


Slackware 15.0 Beta (current branch) released earlier this week, and it's shaping up quite well. From the ChangeLog:

1Mon Apr 12 20:07:12 UTC 2021
2I'm going to go ahead and call this a beta even though there's still no fix
3for the illegal instruction issue with 32-bit mariadb. But there should be
4soon (thanks ponce!) No build regressions noted with the official gcc-10.3
5release. Please report any new (or old) issues on the LQ Slackware forum.
6Enjoy! :-)

I've run Slackware64-current now for over a year, since the upgrade to kernel 5.4.x and then 5.10.x. I made the switch from 14.2 (stable) so I could take advantage of a new XFX Radeon RX 5700 XT THICC Ultra III GPU via amdgpu and the new Ryzen 7 3800X and Ryzen 9 3900X with Gigabyte X570 motherboards. The performance and stability has been exceptional, and getting better. There is a lot to like about Slackware, so give it a try. There is a live version that tracks Current here:


https://docs.slackware.com/slackware:liveslak


This new Slackware release will make a fabulous long term support release. Remember: ALL Slackware stable releases are LTS!


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