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Version 15 of the
venerable Slackware distribution has been released.

The challenge this time around was to adopt as much of the good
stuff out there as we could without changing the character of the
operating system. Keep it familiar, but make it modern. And boy
did we have our work cut out for us. We adopted PAM (finally) as
projects we needed dropped support for pure shadow passwords. We
switched from ConsoleKit2 to elogind, making it much easier to
support software that targets that Other Init System and bringing
us up-to-date with the XDG standards. We added support for PipeWire
as an alternate to PulseAudio, and for Wayland sessions in addition
to X11.

A bit more information can be found in the release
notes. Many of us got our start with Slackware; it is good to see that
it’s still out there and true to form.