Alien Pastures

Some of you may have noticed that source tarballs for KDE 4.5.1 are available now.
I talked to Pat about this last week, to see if this release could end up in Slackware-current. He answered that that would be a possibility. There are several other things brewing for slackware-current, so I have no real good estimate [...]

As you may know I am using KDE for my daily work. However, I use XFCE from time to time – for example when I have to run a remote X session over XDMCP and want to keep a fluid feel to the desktop.
When I was working in XFCE yesterday I wanted to use VLC [...]

KDE 4.5.0 is available!
… and I can offer you packages for KDE Software Compilation 4.5.0 for Slackware-current. The 4.5.0 packages are accompanied by a README which explains the straight-forward  installation/upgrade steps. As always, both 32-bit and 64-bit versions are available.
This marks another milestone for the KDE project with numerous improvements to the KDE 4.4 [...]

I am beginning to feel the lack of computing power in my attic…
There is a pending KDE 4.5.0 release, which needs to be built for slackware-current. Then there is also VLC 1.1.2 which was released a few days ago… and those packages need to be built for Slackware 13.1 (so that they can join [...]

A third and final release candidate is available now for the upcoming KDE SC 4.5. Target for the final release of KDE 4.5 is still august, 2010.
This time, the packages which I created are for Slackware-current only (32-bit as well as 64-bit). The packages are available in my ktown repository. Slackware 13.1 users [...]

Hi!
Just a quick message before I hit the bed,
I uploaded some Slackware packages for your consumption.

vlc – the new stable release 1.1.1 became available for download today and my packages are now ready to be grabbed at http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/vlc/ (this UK mirror hosts the packages with export restrictions – they contain mp3 and aac audio encoders) [...]

The KDE team is relentless. There was a 4.4.5 release very recently, and the first release candidate for the upcoming 4.5 is not that old yet.
Still, already we have the next installment (and it was announced on the dot so fast that I was not able to finish compiling my packages in time)… the second [...]

Well folks, we had short discussion about who would do the first build of KDE SC 4.4.5 for Slackware. But since Pat is on other duties at the moment, I took the opportunity to release a set of packages for the recently released KDE Software Compilation 4.4.5. ( KDE people, there is a lack [...]

The sources of KDE Software Compilation 4.4.90 (which is  in fact Release Candidate 1 of the upcoming KDE 4.5) have been available on KDE’s ftp server for some days now.
There is still no official announcement from KDE team about this RC1 but it will without doubt appear soon on kde.org after the weekend.
In the [...]

VideoLAN team has released version 1.1.0 of their VLC player.
This  release has many improvements over the previous 1.0.0 version of this “swiss army knife of media players“.
A detailed description of the changes can be found in the team’s announcement of the new release. You can also have a look at the supported features of the [...]