Slackware Linux, created by Patrick Volderding, took nearly 30 years to debut. It was a program based on the SLS Linux distribution, and its creators presented the system in the form of images available via FTP, which were saved on 3.5-inch floppy disks.

The system has been updated several times all the time, but the last time was in 2014, when version 14.2 was released for users of this system. As you can see, they had to wait eight years for this moment. Slackware Linux 15.0’s first beta release appeared exactly a year ago, and from today users can download the final fully tested version

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Folding says that while working on version 15.0, he focused on updating the system without making any significant changes to its underlying architecture. This note is very important, because Linux in the case of other distributions is step by step moving away from the original architecture, which was based on solutions used on Unix systems. So, Slackware is currently the most popular Unix distro of all currently supported systems belonging to this family.

The makers of the new version of Slackware reported that prior to releasing a stable release, they tested several hundred different versions of the Linux kernel before settling on premium version 5.15.19, which has long-term support until at least the end of October 2023. Finally, the important information is that Slackware 15.0 x86_64 finally includes a solution to support computing systems supported by UEFI firmware.