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Slackware's latest 32-bit x86 and 64-bit x86_64 stable releases are at version 15.0 (released on February 2, 2022), which include support for Linux 5.15.19. [ 64 ] Volkerding also maintains a testing/developmental version of Slackware called "-current" [ 65 ] that can be used for a more bleeding edge configuration.
Slax version 7 was announced on the developer's blog (which has now been integrated into a newly refreshed Slax website). Slax 7 supports both 64-bit and 32-bit architectures, and according to its download page, "is available in more than 50 languages". It also features a stripped-down version of KDE 4, a new wallpaper, and a new module system.
Instead, software such as a 32-bit DOS version of Info-ZIP compiled with a DOS extender, Info-ZIP on Linux, WinZip, 7-Zip, or another similarly capable utility on Microsoft Windows needed to be used. Alternatively, the system could be booted on a live CD version of Slackware and the standard zip utility provided with the distribution used.
That hobby was Linux, and today it's much more than a tinkerer's operating system, with availability on all manner of hardware and a seemingly unlimited array of flavors, or "distributions."
Until version 3.7.0 Porteus Kiosk was able to run on both 32-bit (i486 or greater) and 64-bit (x86_64) machines. As Google Chrome doesn't support 32-bit machines anymore, the developers of the distribution decided to follow that path. Hence with release 4.0.0 Porteus Kiosk supports only the x86_64 architecture. [21]
Zenwalk GNU/Linux [2] is a desktop-focused Linux distribution founded by Jean-Philippe Guillemin. It is based on Slackware with very few modifications at system level making it 100% compatible with Slackware. [3] It aims to be a modern, multi-purpose Linux distribution by focusing on internet applications, multimedia and programming tools. [4]
Absolute Linux is a discontinued lightweight Linux distribution that works on older hardware and is based on Slackware Linux. [2] The client is designed for everyday use (internet, multimedia, documents). Absolute Linux's default window and file managers are IceWM and ROX-Filer. [3]
Ninite: Proprietary package manager for Windows NT; NuGet: A Microsoft-official free and open-source package manager for Windows, available as a plugin for Visual Studio, and extendable from the command-line; Pacman: MSYS2-ported Windows version of the Arch Linux package manager; Scoop Package Manager: free and open-source package manager for ...