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@RezaT4795 RezaT4795 released this 18 Mar 08:02
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RezaT4795 Reza Talebi
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What's new in WSLackware 15.0.19:

  • Introducing WSLackware-kernel! We've built the default kernel 5.15.27 included in Slackware 15.0, for our beloved WSLackware and now it can be used as an alternative to Microsoft's WSL2 default kernel. Due to limitations, we couldn't include it in the release, so we decided to provide it as an optional feature. Read the instructions below if you're interested!
  • Updated packages with the latest patches from Slackware 15.0 stable branch (See UpdatedPackages.txt).
  • Cleaned up .bashrc leftover in /tmp directory.

Instructions to use WSLackware-kernel:

  1. Download WSLackware-kernel.zip .
  2. Extract the contents of the zip file.
  3. Copy the kernel (vmlinuz-5.15.27-slackware-WSL2) to your desired destination. For example C:\kernel\ .
  4. Edit the config file (.wslconfig) and put the kernel address you just copied in front of the kernel= variable.
    For example if your kernel is in C:\kernel\vmlinuz-5.15.27-slackware-WSL2, you edit the file like this (double backslashes (\\) are important):
    kernel=C:\\kernel\\vmlinuz-5.15.27-slackware-WSL2
  5. Copy the config file (.wslconfig) to %USERPROFILE% .
  6. Run wsl --shutdown to terminate all wsl instances.
  7. You're good to go, now if you launch WSLackware or any other distro, it'll use the new kernel!

Note 1:

The recommended package to install is the Appx package (WSLackware_15.0.19.0_Appx.zip).

Note 2:

We've added a lot more packages in this release to make sure it's good enough for a normal everyday use, but it's still not a full installation of Slackware.
It's meant to be a barebone release, so there might be still some missing dependencies for some non-essential programs in some RARE cases!
We've made sure the users can download and install any packages they need, so incase you encountered an error about missing libraries while you tried to run a program, you can easily download and install them using slackpkg, or find, download and install them manually with pkgtool.

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