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Submission + - Slackware, Oldest Actively Maintained Linux Distro, Releases Slackware 15.0

sombragris writes: Slackware, the oldest actively maintained Linux distributon, released version 15.0 yesterday after a long release cycle which comes all the way back from 2016, where the last version (14.2) was released. As the release notes said, the whole spirit of this release is: "Keep it familiar, but make it modern".

Among the news, this release offers kernel 5.15.19, PAM, PipeWire and PulseAudio, and Wayland and X11 graphical systems, Rust and Python 3. As graphical environments, both Xfce 4.16 and the latest Plasma 5 (Plasma 5.23.5, Frameworks 5.90, KDE apps 21.12 running under Qt 5.15.3) are available, with Cinnamon and Mate also available from third parties. The main compilers are gcc-11.2 and llvm 13.0. The default browser is Firefox 91.5esr, with Chromium available as a third-party repository. And... no systemd at all.

Slackware can be downloaded from a variety of mirrors, with a list available at http://mirrors.slacware.com./ BitTorrent dowloads are going to be available too.

I've used Slackware for 20 years and always impressed me with its stabilitty and speed. I encourage everyone interested to try it.

Comment Re:GNOME 3/shell is fine (Score 1) 376

Yes, as anything it needs time to evolve into something way more stable and fixed. First releases were not so well done and i also stayed away from gnome 3 a long time, but after getting used to it, it again feels like at home. Changes are that way.

Comment Open Ports (Score 0) 327

Thats what I got with nmap
nmap -P0 202.88.234.250

Starting nmap 3.75 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2005-03-09 09:47 CET
Interesting ports on 202.88.234.250:
(The 1637 ports scanned but not shown below are in state: closed)
PORT STATE SERVICE
7/tcp open echo
9/tcp open discard
13/tcp open daytime
19/tcp open chargen
22/tcp open ssh
25/tcp open smtp
37/tcp open time
80/tcp open http
111/tcp open rpcbind
135/tcp filtered msrpc
137/tcp filtered netbios-ns
138/tcp filtered netbios-dgm
139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn
148/tcp filtered cronus
155/tcp filtered netsc-dev
445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds
580/tcp filtered sntp-heartbeat
1018/tcp filtered unknown
1080/tcp filtered socks
1214/tcp filtered fasttrack
3128/tcp filtered squid-http
4480/tcp filtered proxy-plus
5432/tcp open postgres
6146/tcp filtered lonewolf-lm
6588/tcp filtered analogx
22321/tcp filtered wnn6_Tw

Nmap run completed -- 1 IP address (1 host up) scanned in 2712.447 seconds

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