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Archive for June, 2012

VLC 2.0.2

Another (bugfix) release of the VLC media player is ready. The time between this release and the previous 2.0.1 was longer than usual, due to a recent fall-out between several of the core developers. For a while, it looked like the VideoLAN project’s existence was doomed when their most important Linux developer quit the team [...]

Posted: 30 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
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Comments: 8

Getting closer: KDE 4.9 Release Candidate 1

Today, the KDE team officially announced the first release candidate for KDE Software Compilation 4.9. That is less than a day after the source tarballs were posted on the private area where packagers have access. The new KDE release manager is giving “us packagers” a hard time – it was probably done as a penalty [...]

Posted: 27 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
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New multilib packages for slackware-current

 Earlier today, there was a massive update to Slackware-current. The ride was fun, and I am fairly certain we’ll see some breakage. In fact, we found some already and fixed that in a quick update (mounting of Samba shares was broken after splitting the mount utility for Samba shares into its own “cifs-utils” package). So, [...]

Posted: 25 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
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Update 5 for OpenJDK 7 available

OpenJDK 7u5 Quite by accident I noticed that a newer version of Oracle’s Java 7 SE was available on my son’s Windows computer. I checked my Linux sources and indeed I was running behind. Soon after icedtea 2.2 there has been a new release: 2.2.1. This version of the “icedtea build framework” creates binaries for [...]

Posted: 24 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
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Blog updated to 3.4, sqlite database fixed

I just upgraded my blog to WordPress 3.4. My blog’s database backend is not MySQL but instead (for portability reasons) I am using PDO for WordPress, a plugin which uses PDO (a PHP data access abstraction layer) to allow the use a sqlite database; i.e. a simple file. Unfortunately this sqlite backend is not 100% [...]

Posted: 16 June, 2012 in Me, Software.
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