Archive for the tag "current"
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
KDE 4.5.1 will get Slackware packages… not sure when and where
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 [...]
Posted: 2 September, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, kde4
Comments: 3
Release candidate 3 for KDE 4.5
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 who [...]
Posted: 27 July, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: current, kde44
Comments: 24
Some goodies to play with
Am I hearing sighs of relief yet? Today, Pat Volkerding pushed out the work that has been accumulating for slackware-current behind the scenes during the past four weeks (make take a little while to reach the mirrors). This triggered some updates to the multilib and KDE 4.4 packages which I maintain, so if you run [...]
Posted: 2 March, 2010 in Slackware.
Tags: current, multilib, updates
Comments: 43
Massive updates in slackware-current
Today, Pat Volkerding published a massive amount of package updates to the slackware-current tree. The entry in the Slackware ChangeLog.txt measures more than 200 lines, and is probably the largest update to the development tree ever. Many of the core packages have received an version upgrade, but those changes may not be immediately visible to [...]
Posted: 10 March, 2009 in Slackware.
Tags: current, ext4, gcc, glibc, installer, kde, kernel, xfce
Comments: 21