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Alien's Slackware packages

Wed, 22 May 2013 21:46:54 GMT
tigervnc: rebuilt the v1.1.0 package for slackware-current because the old package of Slackware 14 stopped working after the latest -current update, due to a missing library. […]
Wed, 22 May 2013 12:25:15 GMT
mozilla-firefox-l10n: refreshed the script for firefox 21 and upwards, where the installation directory has changed. […]
Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:01 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.9.31. For the (unchanged) dependency list, see further down in the ChangeLog.txt. […]
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:58:29 GMT
libstatgrab: added v0.17 - a system statistics library. obconf: updated to cfde287_20121007git (depends on openbox) openbox: updated to 3.5.0 razor-qt: updated to 0.5.2 (depends on libstatgrab, optionally uses openbox as its Window Manager) sddm: added 20130516git - SDDM is the Simple Display Desktop Manager, and a candidate for KDM's eventual replaceme […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:21 GMT
14.0/kde/kdelibs: Patched to fix a crash exiting KDE or quitting some apps (KDEBUG 319137) […]
Thu, 9 May 2013 22:11:31 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.10.3 for Slackware 14.0. Now that Slackware-current has an official set of KDE 4.10.x packages, provided by Patrick Volkerding, I am offering my own packages for Slackware 14.0 - so that users of this stable release can enjoy the KDE upgrade as well. If you already have my previous KDE 4.10.2 packages installed then the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:04:54 GMT
14.0/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: See below. current/compat32-tools-3.0-noarch-9alien.tgz: Added l/harfbuzz and l/icu4c to the massconvert32.sh script as new dependencies of l/pango. Added a new option '-n' or '--dry-run' to the massconvert32.sh script which will show missing/outdated packages without actually converting them. cu […]
Mon, 6 May 2013 20:50:39 GMT
13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 14.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. current/glibc-2.17_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. cur […]

Archive for August 9th, 2012

People who are reading Slackware ChangeLogs out of habit will have noticed this in June, but others may still be unaware. Slackware has a history of releasing patches for versions of the distro going back as far as Slackware 8.1 (which saw the light on 18 June 2002). That is a longer “long-term support” (LTS) [...]

Posted: 9 August, 2012 in Slackware.
Tags: EOL
Comments: 8

Commercial games and Linux

Almost two years ago I wrote an article about how the Open Source ecosystem can interact with commercial game developers. I decided it was time to write an addendum to that post. Why? Last month, Valve Software finally revealed that they are in the final stages of porting their Steam client to Linux, news that [...]

Posted: 9 August, 2012 in Fun, Games, Software.
Tags: steam, valve
Comments: 15

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