Comment by jmclnx | Hacker News Reader

Comment by jmclnx | Hacker News Reader

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>Oh and btw, distros run by volunteers (Debian, Arch, Alpine...)

And Slackware too:

    Thu Oct 22 23:04:17 UTC 2026
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-generic-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-headers-5.15.223-x86-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-huge-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-modules-5.15.223-x86_64-1.txz:  Upgraded.
    patches/packages/linux-5.15.223/kernel-source-5.15.223-noarch-1.txz:  Upgraded.
      This update fixes bugs and security issues, including the PwnEscape flaw.
      For more information, see:
        https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2026-99999
      (* Security fix *)

From: https://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/slackware/slackware64-15.0/Change...

Slackware 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.

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)

Slackware is basically a rolling distro in all but name at this point.

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