Slackware 15.0 is Now Out
owl writes:
http://www.slackware.com/releasenotes/15.0.php
Slackware 15.0 release notes. Wed Feb 2 18:39:59 CST 2022
Good hello folks, nice to see you here again. :-)
Historically, the RELEASE_NOTES had been mostly technical information, butonce again Robby Workman has covered the important technical details inCHANGES_AND_HINTS.TXT. Thanks!
We've actually built over 400 different Linux kernel versions over the yearsit took to finally declare Slackware 15.0 stable (by contrast, we tested 34kernel versions while working on Slackware 14.2). We finally ended up on kernelversion 5.15.19 after Greg Kroah-Hartman confirmed that it would get long-termsupport until at least October 2023 (and quite probably for longer than that).As usual, the kernel is provided in two flavors, generic and huge. The hugekernel contains enough built-in drivers that in most cases an initrd is notneeded to boot the system. The generic kernels require the use of an initrd toload the kernel modules needed to mount the root filesystem. Using a generickernel will save some memory and possibly avoid a few boot time warnings.I'd strongly recommend using a generic kernel for the best kernel modulecompatibility as well. It's easier to do that than in previous releases - theinstaller now makes an initrd for you, and the new geninitrd utility willrebuild the initrd automatically for the latest kernel packages you'veinstalled on the system.
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