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July 2, 2016 12:00 am

Slackware 14.2 Released, Still Systemd-Free

sombragris writes: Slackware, the oldest GNU/Linux distribution still in active maintenance, was released just minutes ago. Slackware is noted for being the most Unix-like of all Linux distributions. While sporting kernel 4.4.14 and GCC 5.3, other goodies include Perl 5.22.2, Python 2.7.11, Ruby 2.2.5, Subversion 1.9.4, git-2.9.0, mercurial-3.8.2, KDE 4.14.21 (KDE 4.14.3 with kdelibs-4.14.21) Xfce 4.12.1... and no systemd! According to the ChangeLog: "The long development cycle (the Linux community has lately been living in"interesting times," as they say) is finally behind us, and we're proud toannounce the release of Slackware 14.2. The new release brings many updatesand modern tools, has switched from udev to eudev (no systemd), and addswell over a hundred new packages to the system. Thanks to the team, theupstream developers, the dedicated Slackware community, and everyone elsewho pitched in to help make this release a reality." Grab the ISOs at a mirror near you. Enjoy! The torrents page can be found here.

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