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Alien's Slackware packages

Sun, 5 Feb 2012 12:24:58 GMT
flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.1. Its full version is 11.1.102.55 which you can check on http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ […]
Sat, 4 Feb 2012 21:44:54 GMT
libtorrent-rasterbar: updated to 0.15.9. qbittorrent: updated to 2.9.3 (depends on libtorrent-rasterbar). […]
Fri, 3 Feb 2012 23:13:23 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.8.38 (needs icu4c and podofo as dependencies) […]
Fri, 27 Jan 2012 16:05:14 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.8.37 (needs icu4c and podofo as dependencies) […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Thu, 2 Feb 2012 09:44:00 GMT
4.8.0/deps/qt: Applied patch to provide a fix for vulnerability CVE-2011-3922 (stack-based buffer overflow). Applied a patch which tries to work around a change in path name queries, which broke system sounds in KDE (among others). […]
Sat, 28 Jan 2012 16:36:33 GMT
4.8.0/kde/kde-workspace: make KDM look first in Slackware's standard xsessions directory /usr/share/xsessions ; also remove the xfce*.desktop xsession files which are shipped with KDM (our XFCE package provides this already). Requested by Robby Workman. […]

Alien's multilib packages

Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:29:22 GMT
current/gcc-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-g++-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gfortran-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-gnat-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. current/gcc-go-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Added. current/gcc-java-4.6.2_multilib-x86_64-1alien.txz: Upgraded. c […]
Thu, 17 Nov 2011 20:20:31 GMT
13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. 13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2011i_2011n_multilib-noarch-2alien.txz: Upgraded. Note that all these packages are copies of the package in -current. I talked to Pat and he had done exactly the same for the originals. There are no […]

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Musings on Software Development With Linux

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 [...]

Posted: 26 February, 2010 in Identity, Me, Slackware.
Tags: interview
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Interviewed by Linux Magazine

I guess it will be OK to do a bit of PR for my own sake here – I am usually quite modest Linux Magazine published an interview with yours truly by Christopher Smart – aptly called “Why you should try Slackware” (I actually liked the working title better: “The swiss army knife of Linux [...]

Posted: 2 September, 2009 in Me, Slackware.
Tags: interview, linux, magazine
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