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jmclnx • today at 3:16 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

>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...

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codazoda • today at 3:41 PM

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.

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