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I am Eric Hameleers, and this is where I think out loud.
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Thu, 2 Sep 2010 07:09:12 GMT
tigervnc: Fixed the doinst.sh script which threw an error when you installed the package. Thanks escaflown. […]
Wed, 1 Sep 2010 19:46:25 GMT
tigervnc: added svn snapshot r4126 (27-aug-2010). TigerVNC is a VNC server and client with a focus on performance and functionality. It is based on the V4 codebase of RealVNC while TightVNC which is in Slackware's 'extra' directory is based on the older V3 codebase. TigerVNC developers are basically most of the former TightVNC dev group. […]
Tue, 31 Aug 2010 09:58:58 GMT
gst-plugins-ffmpeg: updated to 0.10.11 speex: updated to 1.2.rc1 qemu-kvm: added v0.12.5 - this is a modified version of QEMU which should be used as the 'userspace' component of the Kernel Virtual Machine (or KVM) which is available in Slackware's kernel as 'kvm' 'kvm-intel' and 'kvm-amd' modules. KVM is "a […]
Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:58:09 GMT
vlc: updated to 1.1.3. Note - this version of the vlc package is not able to ENcode mp3 or aac audio (decoding & playback of these audio formats works fine of course). You can find vlc packages with a working mp3/aac ENcoder in my restricted repository at http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/vlc/ […]

A few weeks back Laurent Parenteau asked me to contribute a post to his series “Meet the Linux family” on the blog “Software Development with Linux“. Well here it is: http://laurentparenteau.com/blog/2010/02/meet-the-linux-family-eric-hameleers/ . Nothing spectacular, but just enough controversy (I hope… I wrote “Steve Balmer” and “Eric Raymond” on the same page) to make it interesting for you to read.

Eric

Posted: February 26th, 2010 under Identity, Me, Slackware.
Tags: interview