Archive for May, 2012
End of may ramblings
It has been a while since my latest blog post, so I thought it would be good to talk a bit about the goings-on. First about the Slackware web server. I know, people, that we have been without http://www.slackware.com/ for a few weeks now, but rest assured that the site will eventually be back. Either [...]
Posted: 31 May, 2012 in Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: Slackware, kde, libreoffice, vlc
Comments: 22
Taper mirror down temporarily
FYI: My mirror server taper.alienbase.nl is temporarily down. This server is in fact a virtual machine and the physical host is being moved to another data center. I am not the host server’s owner, it is a donation made by a generous Slackware user that allows me to operate the virtual server using a big [...]
Posted: 6 May, 2012 in Me, Slackware.
Comments: 7
LibreOffice 3.5.3
I just uploaded packages (targeting Slackware 13.37 and newer) for the latest maintenance release of LibreOffice. Check out the announcement for 3.5.3: “LibreOffice 3.5.3 provides additional stability to corporate and individual users…”. If you want to compile this yourself, then remember what I said in my post about the 3.5.2 release: “update … Slackware 13.37 [...]
Posted: 4 May, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: OOo, libreoffice
Comments: 32
KDE 4.8.3 packages
The KDE team officially released the sources for KDE Software Compilation 4.8.3 today. I grabbed the tarballs from the packagers site a few days earlier, so that I could again have a full set of Slackware packages for you. The upgrade will be trivial. Slackware-current was enhanced very recently with KDE 4.8.2 and all the [...]
Posted: 4 May, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde48
Comments: 34