• Victor@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    So all the package versions really are locked to the Slackware version from 2022 then? Is that how it works? If so that’s very… stable.

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      19 hours ago

      No, my Firefox and Thunderbird for example are newer versions than the Flatpaks.
      In practice, Slackware doesn’t have the manpower to fix version numbers and backport security fixes, so if there’s a vulnerability or critical bug, they’ll often pull a newer version from upstream and push it to the stable repo after testing it.