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Just want to make a note that Slackware 14 (the previous major version), from 2012, which shipped with the 3.2.29 kernel, is receiving updates as recently as to
by rascul 3y ago
Just want to make a note that Slackware 14 (the previous major version), from 2012, which shipped with the 3.2.29 kernel, is receiving updates as recently as today.
- akoster 3y agoIts quite amazing indeed! For the curious, here's the changelog for stable releases 14.0 [0], 14.1 [1], and 14.2 [2]. Not all packages are updated (such as the kernel version, but many critical attack surfaces are such as curl [3], ca-certificates, and sudo. Also note that for Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 releases, this was prior to the Mon Aug 3 19:49:51 UTC 2015 bump of the build architecture from i486 to i586 builds [4]. This means that one should be able to run currently supported Slackware 14.0 and 14.1 on any 486 compatible processor, and Slackware 14.2, 15.0 and -current on Pentium-compatible i586 CPUs since they are still building 32-bit packages [5][6]! [0] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/ChangeLog.txt http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.0/ChangeLog... [1] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/ChangeLog.txt http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.1/ChangeLog... [2] http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/ChangeLog.txt http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware-14.2/ChangeLog... [3] http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-security&y=2023&m=slackware-security.451606 http://www.slackware.com/security/viewer.php?l=slackware-sec... [4] http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/source/d/gcc/gcc.SlackBuild http://mirrors.slackware.com/slackware/slackware-current/sou... [5] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386 http://www.slackware.com/changelog/stable.php?cpu=i386 [6] http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386 http://www.slackware.com/changelog/current.php?cpu=i386