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A look on the sunny side
It will be obvious by now, that I work somewhat like a manic-depressive person. Bursts of frenzied activity are followed by periods of silence and withdrawal. After I had worked like a maniac to release a usable version of my Slackware ARMv7 port (creating a git repository, cleaning up build scripts, uploading packages and setting [...]
Posted: 9 May, 2013 in Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: icedtea, kde, ktown, openjdk
Comments: 23
Only 24 hours in a day
During the Easter weekend, I have been working on almost 150 SlackBuild script updates for my ARM hardfloat port. That costs time… and with several setbacks like creating a new gcc-4.8.0 compiler package which then refuses to compile anything else; a new glibc-2.17 package which causes segfaults of every binary after installation (an exclusive ARM [...]
Posted: 2 April, 2013 in Me, Rant, Slackware, Software.
Comments: 3
Call for help: Slackware on an ARM Chromebook?
Well folks, the ARM-powered Chromebook built by Samsung can finally be bought in the Netherlands, and this raises a hairy question. Should I buy one and have a real-life target for my ARM port of Slackware which has been on the backburner for a year? As you may remember, I started an ARM port of [...]
Posted: 19 March, 2013 in Me, Rant, Slackware.
Tags: ARM, chromebook, port
Comments: 33
Half-Life Dedicated Server
I have written down how I configured my Half-Life Dedicated Server (HLDS) in a new Slackware Documentation article. You can find the article here: http://docs.slackware.com/howtos:software:halflife_dedicated_server The reason why I felt compelled to write this, was that the information you can find using Google, and the information on Valve’s own developer Wiki, is not 100% accurate [...]
Posted: 9 March, 2013 in Games, Me, Slackware, Software.
Tags: hlds, steam, teamspeak, valve
Comments: 14
I got the flu, no new software or posts while I get better
I caught a bad case of it, I have been slowly deteriorating during the week and not accepting it, and I was finally felled on thursday evening. If you wondered, why no new calibre packages, why no talk about the upcoming libreoffice or KDE, well that is why. I am unable to work on computers [...]
Posted: 26 January, 2013 in Me.
Comments: 42