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Alien's Slackware packages

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 […]
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:07 GMT
flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.285. This release fixes critical vulnerabilities. For more details, check here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-14.html Verify that you are running the correct version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ […]
Sat, 11 May 2013 21:53:10 GMT
sbbdep: updated to 0.2.0. […]

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

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 […]
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:11:02 GMT
current/gcc-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix a bug that was breaking WINE with -O2 on x86_64, and probably affected other programs as well. current/gcc-g++-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gfortran-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gnat-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc- […]

Archive for August, 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

My Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5

Back in february I bought the camera I had had my eyes on for over a year. It was a bit too expensive to consider it seriously, but then suddenly there was a discount of 75 euros and I grabbed the opportunity. A Panasonic DMC-LX5 was finally mine. I had been using a relatively cheap [...]

Posted: 8 August, 2012 in Hardware, Me.
Tags: bretagne, photography, raw
Comments: 16

Slackware package browser

It was not announced with a lot of brouhaha, but there is a significant change on this Slackware page: http://www.slackware.com/packages/. As you can see, the old (and seriously outdated) Slackware Package Browser (PB) has been replaced with a new one, developed by Mario of slackverse.org. Please check out the new PB at http://packages.slackware.com/ and give your [...]

Posted: 3 August, 2012 in Slackware.
Tags: browser, packages, pb
Comments: 16

KDE Software Compilation 4.9 is ready

The release schedule is accurate as always. Today, the release of KDE SC 4.9 was announced on kde.org! I could get the sources in time and therefore I am able to present you the Slackware KDE 4.9 packages – for Slackware-current of course (more precise, for Slackware 14 Beta1). I assume that some of you [...]

Posted: 1 August, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: kde, kde49, pdf
Comments: 36

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