Archive for December, 2012
Best wishes for a healthy and safe 2013
Hi folks This is the last day of 2012 and I want to take the opportunity to thank you all for reading my blog posts and your support in whatever way. Some good people sent me donation money through PayPal for which I am extremely glad since these times are not at all good, financially [...]
Posted: 31 December, 2012 in Me, Slackware.
Tags: fireworks, newyear
Comments: 17
Multilib update for slackware-current
Pat Volkerding released new packages for the GCC compiler suite on the day the world would end (21 dec 2012) but yet here we are… on the other side and feeling fine. And of course, urgently in need of multilib versions of that gcc-4.7.2 compiler suite for Slackware-current. I built them today and they are [...]
Posted: 22 December, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: multilib
Comments: 4
Steam for Linux Beta opens to everyone
The Steam for Linux beta program has just opened its doors to the general public. When I looked, there were 48 games in the Steam catalogue, paid-for ans well as free-to-play. Part of opening up the Steam for Linux beta is moving their bug tracker to Github, which allows for a better interface than [...]
Posted: 20 December, 2012 in Games, Science, Slackware.
Tags: beta, steam, valve
Comments: 4
Valve’s Steam client for Linux
It was august 2012 when I wrote an article about the viability of commercial games on Linux. In particular, I was talking about the new Steam client for Linux which Valve Software was developing. Read that article now if you have not seen it yet, it will give insight as to where I stand with [...]
Posted: 16 December, 2012 in Games, Slackware, Software.
Tags: steam, valve
Comments: 16
New VLC and FlashPlayer releases
Just a saturday afternoon post… I intended to write about these updates earlier, but I had a very busy work week which did not leave room for Slackware PR. Now that my two-week holiday has started, I have my hands free to work on software updates, my ARM port (which is again threatening to shrivel [...]
Posted: 15 December, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: ARM, flash, steam, valve, vlc. adobe
Comments: 7