Slackware 16 Alpha 1 Released with Linux 6.18 LTS, GCC 16.2, and Plasma 6

by George Whittaker One of Linux's oldest surviving distributions is moving closer to its next major release. Slackware 16 Alpha 1 became available on September 5, 2026, marking the first formal alpha milestone on the road toward Slackware Linux 16. The release follows a major rebuild of Slackware-current using a substantially newer GNU toolchain...