Archive for the tag "beta"
KDE 4.6 first release candidate
It’s that time again! Nicely following the KDE release schedule, a series of tarballs was uploaded to the KDE ftp server, containing the first release candidate of what will become KDE Software Compilation 4.6. The Slackware packages I created and had silently uploaded to my server, have already been noticed… but anyway, better late than [...]
Posted: 24 December, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: beta, hal, kde46
Comments: 27
Starting with KDE 4.6
Hi folks! It took a while, because I have been fighting with properly packaging the LibreOffice software for so long, and playing with slackware-current to find bugs and areas of improvement. But I finally found time to work on a set of Slackware packages for the second beta of the KDE 4.6 Software Compilation. The [...]
Posted: 12 December, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: akonadi, beta, devicekit, hal, kde4, kde46
Comments: 35
Beta alert: KDE 4.5 beta2 for the adventurous
I hinted at this in my previous post; I have been building packages for the second beta of KDE SC 4.5. I was not so sure if I should make them publicly available after I had installed them on my laptop running Slackware64 and very soon, noticed some serious issues: I can not have virtual [...]
Posted: 9 June, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: beta, bugs, kde45
Comments: 14
Fiddling with the KDE 4.5 beta
Although it seems (by looking at the changelog between 4.4.3 and 4.4.4) that there were no spectacular updates in the latest stable KDE Software Compilation, I got some feedback that 4.4.4 does feel “snappier” than the 4.4.3 which is part of Slackware 13.1. Good news (that people actually use my packages)! It made me think [...]
Posted: 8 June, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: beta, kde45, qt
Comments: 7
Slackware 13.1 BETA1
My shiny new KDE 4.4.3 packages were short-lived… surprising perhaps, but I knew it was going to happen. Pat Volkerding “grabbed” the sources I have accumulated at http://alien.slackbook.org/ktown/ (they were mostly his to start with of course) and added KDE SC 4.4.3 officially to Slackware-current. This update marks the first beta release of Slackware 13.1 [...]
Posted: 6 May, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: beta, kde44, polkit-1
Comments: 15