Alien Pastures

I have been updating some of my Slackware packages in the past few days and at least some of them are important enough to write a bit about it. virtuoso Along with my packages for KDE 4.7.x I added an updated version of virtuoso “data management server” which powers a lot of the functionality in [...]

I enjoyed two weeks of camping with my family, in Brittany (France). If you want to know what the view looked like… From Photostream Of course there was a lot more to see. We hunt old ruins with our camera! Brittany is full of chapels, monasteries, and the boulders everyone knows from places like Carnac. [...]

It’s that busy time for developers again… are they all preparing for holidays and cleaning the house? Yesterday saw an update of my favourite multimedia player, and I had missed it… VLC player is now at stable release 1.1.10 – apart from bugfixes and codec updates, this is also a security update (no known CVE [...]

Hi Folks You surely noticed a bit of silence on this blog. Well, there was not much to say – I am not the twittering kind of guy who updates his readers where he’ll go out every night… I think I can lift the lid a little anyway. I have been working on several larger [...]

Yummy food for your hungry Slackware boxen! * VLC 1.1.8 available Another minor release in the 1.1 series, version 1.1.8 saw the light yesterday. Bugfixes and updates for the translations are its main features, but several small enhancements were made to the codec modules. New encoders for dirac video (now using the schroedinger implementation) and [...]

VLC team made their newest release of the VideoLAN Player available to the general public. VLC 1.1.6 which is now available as a source tarball fixes a security hole that was reported in december 2010 which makes it a recommended upgrade. A lot of other changes and bugfixes went into the new VLC , you [...]

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 [...]

As you may know I am using KDE for my daily work. However, I use XFCE from time to time – for example when I have to run a remote X session over XDMCP and want to keep a fluid feel to the desktop. When I was working in XFCE yesterday I wanted to use [...]

I am beginning to feel the lack of computing power in my attic… There is a pending KDE 4.5.0 release, which needs to be built for slackware-current. Then there is also VLC 1.1.2 which was released a few days ago… and those packages need to be built for Slackware 13.1 (so that they can join [...]

Hi! Just a quick message before I hit the bed, I uploaded some Slackware packages for your consumption. vlc – the new stable release 1.1.1 became available for download today and my packages are now ready to be grabbed at http://slackware.org.uk/people/alien/restricted_slackbuilds/vlc/ (this UK mirror hosts the packages with export restrictions – they contain mp3 and [...]