Archive for the tag "current"
KDE 4.10.1, but packaged only for slackware-current
Here it is, KDE Software Compilation 4.10.1. A few weeks ago, KDE 4.10.0 was added to Slackware-current, along with all its updated dependencies. Essentially that was the same set of packages which I had made available on my ‘ktown‘ repository earlier, Pat Volkerding simply recompiled them using the provided KDE.SlackBuild framework. Being the first improvement [...]
Posted: 5 March, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, kde, kde410
Comments: 25
Slackware-current adopts KDE SC 4.10
It happened faster than I had thought, considering the slow pace at which slackware-current has been evolving these past months. But there is a massive flurry of activity and Patrick Volkerding has pushed lots of updates to the development branch of Slackware lately. Quite interesting was the addition of the elilo and gnu-efi packages of [...]
Posted: 12 February, 2013 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, kde, ktown
Comments: 15
New multilib packages for slackware-current
Earlier today, there was a massive update to Slackware-current. The ride was fun, and I am fairly certain we’ll see some breakage. In fact, we found some already and fixed that in a quick update (mounting of Samba shares was broken after splitting the mount utility for Samba shares into its own “cifs-utils” package). So, [...]
Posted: 25 June, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, multilib
Comments: 17
Slackware-current gets KDE 4.8.2, hooray
It was bound to happen, and while I was asleep Pat updated slackware-current with a fresh batch of packages… containing KDE 4.8.2 and all the stuff that it depends on! The update to the ChangeLog.txt makes up almost 20% of the full ChangeLog length so far! Finally we have a beefy update to -current. It’s [...]
Posted: 15 April, 2012 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, kde, networkmanager
Comments: 48
Huge update to slackware-current and what it meant to my laptop
Today, you may be watching the slackware-current ChangeLog.txt slack-faced, with a feeling of horror… … because the update is HUGE. There are well over 300 lines of updates! That amounts to one-third of the full length of ChangeLog for the current development cycle. Those of you who thought Slackware was calmly drifting toward another stable [...]
Posted: 15 November, 2010 in Slackware, Software, Uncategorized.
Tags: current, mesa, udev, vlc, xorg
Comments: 36