14 DAY TRIAL // Arne Exton, the developer of numerous Linux kernel-based and Android-x86 distributions, was happy to inform Softpedia about the release of a custom kernel for the Slackware 12.0 operating system and its derivatives.
According to Mr. Exton, the custom kernel compiled by hand is based on the upstream Linux kernel 4.2.2, the latest and most advanced kernel branch available at the moment of writing this article.
Kernel 4.2.2-x86_64-exton was optimized only for 64-bit (x86_64) hardware architectures and offers extra support for new and modern hardware components. Besides Slackware 12.0, it's also compatible with the Slax, Zenwalk, and SlackEX distros.
"I have compiled a very useful (as I think) 64-bit kernel for Slackware 12.0 - 14.1 and/or all Slackware derivatives. For example Slax, Zenwalk and SlackEX. The kernel is compiled exactly the same way as Slackware’s latest kernel huge," says Arne Exton.
Here's how to install Linux kernel 4.2.2 in Slackware 12.0 and its derivatives
Users of a 64-bit Slackware 12.0 operating system or similar, such as Slax 64-bit or Zenwalk 64-bit, can easily install Mr. Exton's custom kernel 4.2.2-x86_64-exton package by downloading it from his website, saving the archive on their Home folder, and can afterwards extract/install it using the following command in a terminal emulator app.
Furthermore, users of Nvidia graphics cards must remove the blacklisting of the Nouveau kernel module from the nvidia-installer-disable-nouveau.conf and blacklist.conf files located in the /etc/modprobe.d directory, and the /boot/vmlinuz file will be overwritten during the installation, so make a backup first!