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Slackware Linux has always had a rather conservative approach to any radical new technologies, so there was little surprise when the the project leaders decided to hold off upgrading to KDE Plasma 6, originally released in February 2024. But with the recent update of the relevant build scripts, the world's oldest surviving Linux distribution now also offers the latest Plasma desktop: "Well folks, it seems that the stars have aligned to bring us a bunch of long-awaited updates, including ffmpeg8 and Plasma 6. This has been developed in a side tree for several weeks, and I'll be happy to get that off my plate and have a greatly reduced todo list. Many thanks to alienBOB for getting the tree in good shape, helping when I got stuck, and for being a good manager who inspires me to do my best work. :-) And we both extend our thanks to the illustrious LuckyCyborg who ported the build scripts to Plasma 6 in the first place and then maintained Plasma 6 for Slackware users to test for a couple of years. And thanks to everyone else who helped out with either of the Slackware Plasma 6 projects that these updates grew out of. Have fun!" See the project's current changelog for all the recent updates, including the initial inclusion of XLibre Xserver in Slackware's testing repository. |