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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 7 Mar 2014 08:38:38 GMT
calibre: updated to 1.27.0. For the full list of Slackware 14.0/14.1/current dependencies for calibre: see the 'Fri Jan 31 21:12:42 UTC 2014' entry in this ChangeLog.txt. […]
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 23:25:14 GMT
libconfig: added v1.4.9 - this is a library for parsing configurationn files, specifically meant to be used on low-memory machines. telegram-cli: added 20140305 git snapshot. This is a commandline client for the Telegram messenger service - an open source and secure alternative to WhatsApp. This depends on libconfig and lua packages. […]
Wed, 5 Mar 2014 09:22:38 GMT
chromium: updated to 33.0.1750.146. This new stable release addresses several security issues, see also http://googlechromereleases.blogspot.nl/2014/03/stable-channel-update.html […]
Tue, 4 Mar 2014 11:01:39 GMT
scribus: updated to 1.4.3 (new dependency: podofo). […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 5 Mar 2014 20:49:43 GMT
current/4.12.3/kde: added the missing kwalletmanager package. For KDE 4.12.3, the old 'kwallet' package had been renamed to 'kwalletmanager' and I had not spotted that. Upgrade using "upgradepkg kwallet%/path/to/kwalletmanager-4.12.3-*.txz". […]
Sun, 2 Mar 2014 22:14:58 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.12.3 for Slackware-current (it was actually compiled on Slackware 14.1 for maximum compatibility). This release does not include a version 4.12.x of the Plasma Workspaces, since it was feature-frozen in 4.11. The work done in KDE 4.12 will be mainly about improving and polishing KDE Applications. I ship kde-workspace-4. […]

Alien's multilib packages

Tue, 4 Mar 2014 23:35:35 GMT
13.37/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.0/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. 14.1/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages. […]
Thu, 16 Jan 2014 17:19:23 GMT
13.37/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. 14.0/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. 14.1/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: See below. current/compat32-tools-3.2-noarch-1alien.tgz: Add support for using the fortran compiler in 32-bit mode. […]

Archive for the tag "silverlight"

Pipelight: using Silverlight in Linux browsers

That is the exact title of an article which appeared on fds-team.de last august. You may have read my earlier rant about dutch schools migrating (or forced to migrate) to a Microsoft SilverLight based learning management software called Magister. A disastrous move induced by an arrogant company, which of course leaves Linux desktop users out […]

Posted: 9 November, 2013 in Rant, Slackware, Software.
Tags: drm, netflix, silverlight
Comments: 71

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