Porteus-v5.1-alpha

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It's time for a development release: 5.1-alpha, based on a snapshot of slackware current (which will one day be slackware-15.1)
Further alphas,betas,RCs will appear periodically.
A stable release of Porteus-5.1 will only happen once slackware-15.1 is released.

Download from your favourite mirror: http://porteus.org/porteus-mirrors.html (in the x86_64/Porteus-v5.1 folder)

At this point, while quite stable, there are only 64bit versions, no localization support, no bundles and limited package management.
Who is this for? Anyone who wants to contribute to the further development of Porteus by bug testing/reporting/fixing
or those who need/want the latest software and don't mind the lack of package availability.

Things of note:
Kernel 6.12.8 (thanks to Blaze)
Paper icon theme retired and replaced with Flat-Remix-Blue and all DEs now use it.
Pipewire audio replaces pulseaudio.
Cinnamon at version 6.4
Mate at version 1.28
Xfce4 at version 4.20
Lxqt at version 2.1 (with qt6)
Kde5(plasma) at version 5.27.11 (with qt5)
Perl has been restored to 001-core for now.
Slapt-get(and wrapper slapt-mod) are included but are of limited use due to lack of repos for slackware-current.(repo configuration required)
Many other small changes..

You will notice the iso/module size increase which is mostly down to kernel, mesa, llvm, pipewire and software generally trending bigger.
Hopefully going forward some of this can be trimmed back.
As always thanks to Blaze and especially Hamza for supplying and maintaining our server.