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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 23:13:40 GMT
vlc: updated to 2.2.0. First major release in a long time. New libraries: asdcplib, speexdsp. Several internal libraries got an update as well: ffmpeg, libass, libbluray, libdvbpsi, libdvdcss, libdvdnav, libdvdread, libebml, libmatroska, libupnp, libvdpau, live, orc, speex. Usual caveat: versions that can not only DEcode but also ENcode mp3 and aac audio, and can play […]
Sun, 8 Feb 2015 16:51:04 GMT
libreoffice: updated to 4.4.0. Note that these packages are compiled on Slackware 14.1 (and work fine on -current). These packages will not work on Slackware 14.0 (I have libreoffice-4.1.6 packages for that). Recommended: if you work with MS Office documents a lot, you may want to install the two open source font packages google-caladea-font-ttf and […]
Fri, 6 Feb 2015 20:02:11 GMT
chromium: updated to 40.0.2214.111 with working support for Widevine CDM (you will need to install chromium-widevine-plugin for that) chromium-widevine-plugin: upgraded to 40.0.2214.111 (needs chromium of the same version)
Thu, 5 Feb 2015 22:52:04 GMT
chromium-pepperflash-plugin: updated to 16.0.0.305. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.442. Security fix, see http://helpx.adobe.com/security/products/flash-player/apsb15-04.html Verify that you are running the latest version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Fri, 27 Feb 2015 21:08:57 GMT
current/5/kde/plasma/libksysguard: rebuilt to move dbus files. current/5/kde/plasma/sddm-kcm: rebuilt to move dbus files. current/5/kde/plasma-extra/polkit-kde-kcmodules-framework: rebuilt to move dbus files.
Wed, 25 Feb 2015 19:52:26 GMT
This is KDE 5_15.02_2 for Slackware, consisting of the KDE Frameworks 5.7.0, Plasma 5.2.1 and Applications 14.12.2. This is meant only to be installed on top of Slackware -current and it will *replace* any version of KDE 4 you migh thave installed! New & changed since my KDE 5_15.02 release: - deps/libssh version 0.6.4 was […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 17 Feb 2015 21:22:18 GMT
14.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
Fri, 13 Feb 2015 14:14:02 GMT
current/glibc-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-i18n-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-profile-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-solibs-2.21_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/glibc-zoneinfo-2015a_multilib-noarch-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.

Archive for March 10th, 2014

Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage

A while ago I posted a blurb (well… not here but on Google+) about Barracuda‘s cloud-based backup service analogous to Dropbox. Copy.com is an interesting contender in the playing field of cloudbackup. This is what the company has to say about data protection and security: “Because Copy is the product of network security and backup giant […]

Posted: 10 March, 2014 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: cloud, copy, dropbox, storage
Comments: 22

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