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It's a distro that maximizes stability and KISS design. If you used it 20 years ago, you'll still feel at home today.
And it's so simple, it's basically just a selection of software and a number of bash scripts.
The release model is "whenever Patrick Volkerding decides it's ready".
Slackware looks dead at first glance. The last stable release took 5 years, the website isn't updated, all official online documentation is outdated.
But the people involved coordinate on linuxquestions.org/questions/slackware-14/ , the Current branch is as active as Arch, and the up-to-date documentation comes in text files that are right in the directory where you need them on an installed Slackware system.
So like, you aren't using packages from 2022, then? Or, you are if you're on the stable branch? Am I getting close?
No, you're getting updates.
I'm on the Stable branch. My Firefox and Thunderbird from this branch are newer than the versions released as Flatpak, for example.
Huh, interesting.
Maybe I'll understand better if I try to install it in a VM or something. 😁