A huge Slackware-current update just landed: 1927 updates, including 1876 rebuilt packages.
The entire distribution was rebuilt with GCC 16.2.0, glibc 2.44 and binutils 2.47.
And after someone asked for an ALPHA label, Patrick replied:
"Fine, it's 16.0 alpha 1."
Time to upgrade.
https://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/latest-changelog-for-slackware-current-4175698890/page192.html#post6647863
#Slackware #Linux
r1w1s1
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2026-09-05 06:13:00 UTC
Author Public Key
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wss://relay.ditto.pubPublished at
2026-09-05 06:13:00 UTCEvent JSON
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