alt Hacker NewsSlackware is a cool distribution. I really love that it's maintained by Patrick and I enjoy the simplicity and the stubbornness of it's opinionated decisions.
I stopped using it back in 2004 when Patrick had health problems. It seems to be a passion project and it stopped getting updates while he recovered. There is a community behind it but it may mainly be driven forward by him.
It looks like it's fairly slow to get updates, generally, as the last release was Slackware 15 in 2022. Maybe that reflects it's dictator (his word not mine) or maybe it reflects it's stability.
Yet, despite all that, Slackware got this security fix around 10 days ago.
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bortimus • yesterday at 4:16 PM
Slackware is basically a rolling distro in all but name at this point.
Slackware-current or slackware-current64 is the main release channel. https://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware64-current/...
There's dvd iso's available the slackware-current branch, usually built about once a week by AlienBOB
Guess you could call it a passion project, but after all these years of dedicated tireless work that seem to resemble more of a machine than man, seems that doesn't completely sum it up. Hope he keeps it up, its pretty much the only pure distro left (or maybe I dislike systemd that much)