Alien Pastures

2018 (36)

• Saturday, October 6 LibreOffice 6.1.2 packages available (8)
• Wednesday, October 3 This week focuses on Slackware 14.2 packages (7)
• Tuesday, September 11 Last week’s updates: Chromium and VLC (23)
• Sunday, September 9 liveslak-1.3.0 with speed improvements (26)
• Saturday, September 8 KDE Plasma5 Sep’18 release for Slackware (34)
• Sunday, September 2 Pale Moon browser removed from my repository (37)
• Monday, August 27 Calibre 3.30.0 for Slackware with internal Qt5 libraries (5)
• Thursday, August 16 KDE5 August release for Slackware with Applications 18.08 (24)
• Saturday, August 4 Chromium 68 with updated Widevine plugin (11)
• Sunday, July 29 KDE 5_18.07 for Slackware, includes Plasma 5.13.3 and Qt 5.11.1 (38)
• Thursday, July 26 Patrick, next Slackware and moving forward with KDE Plasma5 (22)
• Wednesday, July 25 July security updates: Chromium and Flash (11)
• Saturday, July 7 Indisposed
• Wednesday, June 27 New set of Live ISOs (16)
• Sunday, June 24 Qt 5.11.1 and Plasma 5.13.1 in ktown ‘testing’ repository (20)
• Sunday, June 17 Ktown in June ’18 – Plasma 5.13 in the ‘testing’ repo (43)
• Thursday, June 7 Security updates for Java and Flash (9)
• Wednesday, May 30 Tracking development of slackware in git (17)
• Thursday, May 24 May update for Plasma5 (61)
• Monday, May 21 VLC rebuilt for -current, Chromium and Palemoon updated (14)
• Thursday, May 17 HandBrake 1.1.0 – now also in a patent-friendly package (17)
• Friday, May 11 Let’s show some love to 14.2 (30)
• Thursday, May 10 May ’18 security update for Adobe Flashplayer (6)
• Saturday, May 5 Security update for Chromium (6)
• Saturday, April 21 Plasma5 – April 18 edition for Slackware (44)
• Wednesday, April 4 New package for qbittorrent, now based on Qt5 (10)
• Monday, April 2 Fun and games in -current when ABIs break (32)
• Wednesday, March 14 What all happened in March so far (69)
• Thursday, March 1 Security updates for OpenJDK 7 and 8 (13)
• Sunday, February 11 New Live ISOs for Slackware-current 20180209 (13)
• Sunday, February 11 LibreOffice 6 packaged for Slackware (48)
• Saturday, February 10 February release of the Plasma5 Desktop for Slackware (33)
• Saturday, February 10 Finally: VLC 3 (40)
• Friday, February 9 Security week (9)
• Monday, January 29 Chromium 64 – and 32bit pain (7)
• Friday, January 19 What’s new for January? Plasma5 18.01, and more (53)

2017 (70)

• Saturday, December 23 December packages for Slackware’s Plasma 5 – focus shift (87)
• Friday, December 22 Attn: bear’s Slackware 14.2 mirror (32bit) will be removed due to space constraints (14)
• Friday, December 22 Updates for LibreOffice and multilib, more to come (26)
• Monday, December 18 Hello Chromium 63 – goodbye NaCl (15)
• Saturday, December 16 Using your Slackware to control your Android (9)
• Thursday, December 7 Rebuilt packages for Plasma5 (ktown) (66)
• Thursday, December 7 Security update for OpenJDK7 (1)
• Monday, December 4 VLC 2.2.8 (51)
• Monday, December 4 Welcome slackware.nl (6)
• Thursday, November 23 Live ISOs for Slackware-current 20171122 (20)
• Monday, November 20 Slackware Plasma5 updates for November (48)
• Saturday, November 18 Alien Pastures is moving soon (14)
• Monday, November 13 Brabantse worstenbroodjes – take two (5)
• Sunday, November 12 LibreOffice 5.4.3 packages available (25)
• Thursday, November 2 OpenJDK8 security update November 2017 (1)
• Monday, October 30 Chromium is now compiled using clang (10)
• Wednesday, October 25 Netsurf, a lightweight browser, works on the framebuffer too (12)
• Tuesday, October 24 Plasma5 Wayland works on Slackware (27)
• Friday, October 20 Chromium 62 ready for download (5)
• Saturday, October 14 October updates for the Slackware Plasma5 desktop (65)
• Thursday, October 12 Updates for LibreOffice, Pale Moon, Flash (11)
• Sunday, October 1 Refreshed ISO’s for Slackware Live Edition, and more (9)
• Wednesday, September 20 liveslak 1.1.9 and new ISO images (19)
• Tuesday, September 12 Updates for Chromium, LibreOffice, Calibre (and Flash too) (16)
• Monday, September 11 Plasma 5 for Slackware – KDE 5_17.09 (77)
• Monday, August 21 Build box: step 1, install Slackware (21)
• Wednesday, August 16 New server arrived in the post (11)
• Thursday, August 10 OpenJDK7 and Flash Player security updates (Aug ’17) (2)
• Sunday, August 6 Pale Moon update fixes high CPU usage for HD video playback (1)
• Tuesday, August 1 New build server was ordered (20)
• Saturday, July 29 Chromium 60 packages available (11)
• Friday, July 28 Alien Pastures switched to HTTPS (10)
• Wednesday, July 26 Short maintenance downtime window coming up (3)
• Friday, July 21 OpenJDK 8 security round-up for July ’17 (6)
• Tuesday, July 18 How to create a Slackware Live USB stick if you are not using Slackware (18)
• Tuesday, July 18 July 17 updates – Plasma 5, Live ISOS and more (76)
• Thursday, July 13 Pale Moon browser new release, better media support (4)
• Wednesday, July 12 Adobe Flash security update July ’17 (3)
• Tuesday, July 11 Encrypted Media Extensions on the World Wide Web (6)
• Tuesday, June 27 New ISO for Slackware Live PLASMA5, with Stack Clash proof kernel and Plasma 5.10.2 (21)
• Sunday, June 25 LibreOffice 5.3.4 packages for -current (11)
• Sunday, June 25 Plasma 5 for Slackware – June release (65)
• Sunday, June 25 What if gcc 7 gives you headaches? (10)
• Wednesday, June 14 Adobe Flash security update June ’17 (3)
• Thursday, June 8 Chromium 59 – a security update (6)
• Friday, May 26 New VLC packages fix security hole in subtitle renderer (4)
• Tuesday, May 23 LibreOffice 5.3.3 packages for Slackware 14.2 and -current (27)
• Monday, May 22 More May updates for Slackware’s Plasma 5 addon (13)
• Friday, May 19 OpenJDK security updates Jun’17 (3)
• Friday, May 12 liveslak 1.1.8 and new ISO images (16)
• Wednesday, May 10 Chromium packages refreshed with v58 (6)
• Tuesday, May 9 Palemoon browser (31)
• Tuesday, May 9 Adobe Flash security update May ’17 (0)
• Sunday, May 7 Some thoughts on the recent updates in Slackware-current (18)
• Thursday, May 4 May updates for Plasma 5 (Slackware) (29)
• Thursday, April 20 Plasma 5 for Slackware – April edition (28)
• Sunday, March 19 For your Slackware-current: KDE 5_17.03 with lots of goodies (91)
• Sunday, March 19 Last week’s package harvest and more (14)
• Saturday, March 18 Adding CACert root certificates to your Slackware (19)
• Tuesday, February 28 I added Chromium 56 for Slackware 14.1 with a caveat (7)
• Thursday, February 16 New Slackware PLASMA5 Live ISO (with Plasma 5.9) (27)
• Thursday, February 16 KDE 5_17.02 for Slackware-current is available (13)
• Thursday, February 16 LibreOffice 5.3.0 for slackware-current (13)
• Wednesday, February 15 OpenJDK 7 security update Jan ’17 (1)
• Tuesday, February 14 Adobe Flash security update Feb’17 (1)
• Wednesday, February 1 Chromium 56, LibreOffice 5.2.5 (21)
• Sunday, January 29 Openjdk (Java8) updated with January fixes (3)
• Sunday, January 29 liveslak 1.1.6 released (44)
• Sunday, January 29 Plasma 5_17.01 for Slackware (53)
• Wednesday, January 25 Poll: who needs 32bit packages for latest Plasma 5? (79)

2016 (68)

• Wednesday, December 28 Handbrake reaches 1.0.0 milestone after 13 years of development (27)
• Monday, December 26 LibreOffice 5.2.4 packages (30)
• Tuesday, December 13 Adobe unifies its Flash plugin releases with version 24 (9)
• Sunday, December 11 New Slackware-current Live ISOs with latest Plasma (45)
• Saturday, December 10 December packages… not Santa Claus but Plasma 5 (53)
• Sunday, December 4 Brabantse worstenbroodjes (4)
• Tuesday, November 15 Java 7 (openjdk) gets a security update (3)
• Thursday, November 10 Transitioning to a new GPG key (15)
• Thursday, November 10 Slackware Live Edition 1.1.4 – based on slackware-current of 4 Nov 2016 (29)
• Wednesday, November 9 Q4 2016 fixes for Java 8 (openjdk) (1)
• Wednesday, November 9 KDE 5_16.11 available for Slackware 14.2 and -current (103)
• Wednesday, November 9 I can not believe you Americans fell for him (36)
• Tuesday, November 8 LibreOffice 5.2.3 for Slackware-current (16)
• Tuesday, November 8 More Flash fixes in November (1)
• Friday, November 4 Chromium 54 packages (32)
• Wednesday, November 2 Security updates: multilib and flash (11)
• Thursday, September 15 Sep ’16 Security fixes for Adobe Flash (10)
• Monday, September 12 LibreOffice 5.2.1 for slackware-current (13)
• Saturday, September 10 Priorities (99)
• Monday, August 22 Slackware Live Edition 1.1.3 based on Slackware -current 11 Aug 2016 (27)
• Saturday, August 13 Multilib updates: gcc and glibc for slackware-current (8)
• Saturday, August 6 New packages for LibreOffice and Chromium (20)
• Friday, July 29 Pipelight update (11)
• Wednesday, July 27 July ’16 security fixes for Java 8 (6)
• Friday, July 22 KDE 5_16.07 for Slackware 14.2 and -current (56)
• Wednesday, July 20 July ’16 security fixes for Adobe Flash (3)
• Sunday, July 3 LibreOffice 5.1.4 (bugfix release) (20)
• Sunday, July 3 Bear is working for its money (5)
• Saturday, July 2 Slackware 14.2 released (42)
• Friday, June 17 June ’16 security fixes for Adobe Flash (2)
• Wednesday, June 15 Slackware Live Edition 1.1.0 comes with the latest Plasma5 on ISO (90)
• Wednesday, June 15 KDE 5_16.06 for Slackware -current (49)
• Friday, June 10 Ten years of SlackBuilds.org (23)
• Sunday, May 29 Updated ISOs for Slackware Live Edition (49)
• Friday, May 27 Chromium 51 packages available (25)
• Thursday, May 19 Stable 1.0.0 release of liveslak (29)
• Wednesday, May 18 Updates for LibreOffice, Chromium, Calibre, QBittorrent, Veracrypt (18)
• Tuesday, May 17 KDE 5_16.05 for Slackware -current (41)
• Friday, May 6 Slackware Live Edition – final testing please (46)
• Monday, April 25 April security updates for (open) Java 7 and 8 (12)
• Thursday, April 21 KDE 5_16.04 for Slackware-current (54)
• Wednesday, April 20 Slackware Live Edition Beta 8 (42)
• Monday, April 18 Chromium turns 50 (where’s the cake) (9)
• Monday, April 11 Icedtea 3.0.0 brings Java 8 to Slackware (8)
• Sunday, April 10 LibreOffice 5.1.2 for slackware-current (4)
• Friday, April 8 April ’16 security fixes for Adobe Flash (3)
• Friday, March 25 Bear is live (37)
• Saturday, March 19 taper.alienbase.nl will probably also stop acting as a HTTP mirror (37)
• Friday, March 18 LibreOffice 5.1.1 for Slackware -current (5)
• Thursday, March 17 KDE 5_16.03 for Slackware-current (56)
• Wednesday, March 16 New ISO images for Slackware Live Edition (beta 7) (104)
• Sunday, March 13 March ’16 security fixes for Adobe Flash (1)
• Monday, March 7 Chromium 49 packages address security issues; no more 32-bit binary plugins (19)
• Thursday, March 3 Package recompilation effort underway (9)
• Sunday, February 28 Open Source on another level (5)
• Thursday, February 25 Beta 6 for my Live ISO images (57)
• Wednesday, February 24 KDE 5_16.02 for Slackware-current (35)
• Wednesday, February 24 Multilib updates and more still to come (9)
• Monday, February 15 Security update for Chromium 48 (11)
• Sunday, February 14 taper.alienbase.nl mirror will lose rsync access (19)
• Saturday, February 13 LibreOffice 5.1.0 for slackware-current (20)
• Saturday, February 13 VLC 2.2.2 media player Weatherwax is here (31)
• Saturday, February 6 Slackware Live Edition – on its way to 1.0? (89)
• Thursday, February 4 Almost weekend again – what’s in store (22)
• Sunday, January 24 Slackware Live Edition, updated (70)
• Friday, January 22 KDE 5_16.01 for slackware-current (20)
• Friday, January 22 OpenJDK updated to 7u95_b00 (15)
• Wednesday, January 13 PulseAudio comes to Slackware-current Beta (97)

2015 (88)

• Thursday, December 24 Beta3 of Slackware Live Edition is available (97)
• Saturday, December 19 KDE 5_15.12 for Slackware-current (121)
• Friday, December 18 LibreOffice 5.0.4 for Slackware-current (15)
• Wednesday, December 16 Slackware multilib updates to match the changes in slackware-current (8)
• Saturday, December 12 The Expanse (23)
• Wednesday, December 9 December ’15 security fixes for Adobe Flash (2)
• Saturday, November 28 Slackware Live Edition – Beta 2 (182)
• Friday, November 27 (Hopefully) final recompilations for KDE 5_15.11 (36)
• Friday, November 27 Updated multilib packages for -current (6)
• Sunday, November 22 Cleanups from the -current update fallout (78)
• Friday, November 20 Slackware Live Edition (312)
• Friday, November 20 Slackware Live Edition (original article) (2)
• Friday, November 20 LibreOffice 5.0.3 and new steamclient (17)
• Wednesday, November 18 GCC 5.2.0 multilib (13)
• Monday, November 16 KDE 5_15.11 for Slackware-current – visual improvements (45)
• Monday, November 16 Last week’s security updates (2)
• Sunday, November 15 Almost a beta (20)
• Friday, November 13 Why the relative silence? (79)
• Tuesday, November 3 Procmail config woes (1)
• Friday, October 30 Slackware-current got updated… 448 lines of ChangeLog (41)
• Sunday, October 25 OpenJDK updated to 7u91_b01 (1)
• Wednesday, October 14 October ’15 security fixes for Adobe Flash (5)
• Tuesday, October 13 KDE 5_15.10 for Slackware-current brings Telepathy (61)
• Monday, October 12 Wine 1.7.52 with additional patch set (26)
• Friday, October 2 Handbrake 0.10.2 (but only for slackware-current) (9)
• Thursday, October 1 Update for VeraCrypt, new flaws in TrueCrypt (10)
• Sunday, September 27 Update for Chromium 45 (1)
• Saturday, September 26 LibreOffice 5.0.2 and Calibre 2.39.0 packaged (10)
• Friday, September 25 New cats in the house (5)
• Tuesday, September 22 September updates for Adobe Flash (3)
• Tuesday, September 15 Second Plasma 5 update for September (42)
• Thursday, September 3 KDE-5_15.09 – september release for Slackware-current (86)
• Friday, August 28 New LibreOffice 5.0.1, and VLC 2.2.1 / tigervnc 1.5.0 rebuilds for slackware-current (13)
• Saturday, August 22 Another big update in slackware-current (79)
• Wednesday, August 12 August ’15 security fixes for Adobe Flash (1)
• Saturday, August 8 Rebuilt multilib gcc compiler suite for slackware-current (4)
• Saturday, August 8 LibreOffice 5.0.0 and 4.4.5 for your Slackware box (16)
• Friday, July 24 Chromium 44 available (Netflix still works) (22)
• Thursday, July 23 July ’15 OpenJDK security update: 7u85_b01 (1)
• Thursday, July 16 And finally, Adobe’s afterthought (9)
• Friday, July 10 KDE 5_15.07 – July release for Slackware-current (35)
• Wednesday, July 8 July ’15 Security fixes for Adobe’s Flash web plugins (extra critical) (11)
• Monday, July 6 New LibreOffice packages for Slackware 14.1 and -current (28)
• Thursday, June 25 LibreOffice 5.0.0 Release Candidate (7)
• Tuesday, June 23 More june ’15 security fixes for Adobe’s Flash web plugins (0)
• Monday, June 22 Hashed passwords in the shadow file (6)
• Tuesday, June 16 Sourdough weekday adventures (4)
• Wednesday, June 10 June ’15 security releases for Adobe Flash (2)
• Wednesday, June 3 KDE 5_15.06 with a few useful fixes (20)
• Thursday, May 28 New calibre packages – finally (37)
• Tuesday, May 26 KDE 5_15.05 packages are available for slackware-current (29)
• Wednesday, May 20 Running Slackware 14.1 in an OpenVZ VPS (25)
• Wednesday, May 20 Stable channel for Chromium hits 43 (16)
• Friday, May 15 Sourdough Kaiser rolls (8)
• Friday, May 15 New chromium-dev package and plugins (2)
• Tuesday, May 12 May ’15 security updates for Adobe Flash (7)
• Sunday, May 10 No more cats (21)
• Thursday, April 30 KDE 5_15.04 for Slackware-current: back to work (40)
• Saturday, April 25 Multilib gcc updated to address changes in slackware-current (11)
• Friday, April 24 First victim of slackware-current update 20150421 healed: LibreOffice (11)
• Thursday, April 16 VLC 2.2.1 “Terry Pratchett” (28)
• Thursday, April 16 Chromium: the answer to life, the universe and everything (10)
• Thursday, April 16 April 15 Java security update: OpenJDK 7u79 (4)
• Wednesday, April 15 April security updates for Flash (5)
• Tuesday, April 7 KDE 4.14.3 now also for Slackware 14.1 (29)
• Monday, March 30 Long Term Support (LTS) for KDE 4 (21)
• Saturday, March 28 KDE 5_15.03 for Slackware-current (36)
• Thursday, March 12 March Flash updates (13)
• Friday, March 6 Chromium 41 (19)
• Monday, March 2 LibreOffice 4.4.1 (9)
• Saturday, February 28 Coordinated release of VLC 2.2.0 (27)
• Friday, February 27 Updated KDE 5 packages for Slackware (release 5_15.02_02) (19)
• Wednesday, February 18 KDE 5_15.02 release for Slackware-current (50)
• Thursday, February 12 Forgot to tell you about the new LibreOffice 4.4.0 packages (32)
• Friday, February 6 Update for Chromium and another Flash security fix (10)
• Saturday, January 31 Support for old-school XEmbed system tray icons in Plasma 5 (25)
• Saturday, January 31 Another Flash player plugin this week (5)
• Friday, January 30 Multilib glibc patched for GHOST vulnerability (CVE-2015-0235) (13)
• Wednesday, January 28 KDE 5 (Plasma 5.2.0) available for Slackware -current (117)
• Tuesday, January 27 Waiting for KDE 5 (Plasma 5)? (16)
• Thursday, January 22 Java update: openjdk 7u75 available (5)
• Thursday, January 22 Updates for chromium, widevine, flash (6)
• Wednesday, January 14 Using git while working on KDE 5 (38)
• Tuesday, January 13 Monthly Flash Player security updates (3)
• Wednesday, January 7 Terror does not kill freedom (27)
• Wednesday, January 7 Thinking about working on KDE 5 again (frameworks, plasma, applications) (7)
• Friday, January 2 Watch Netflix video in your chromium browser – this time for real (30)
• Thursday, January 1 Happy New Year of 2015 (16)

2014 (65)

• Friday, December 26 Rye Honey Sourdough Bread (11)
• Tuesday, December 23 (Wine-) Pipelight update – careful upgrade (7)
• Monday, December 22 Ktown for Slackware – development history available in git (19)
• Sunday, December 21 LibreOffice 4.3.5 built for Slackware, with 4.4.0 not far off (15)
• Thursday, December 11 New chromium and chromium-dev packages (5)
• Tuesday, December 9 Adobe Flash update time – december (8)
• Wednesday, November 26 Flash plugins updated – second time in November (3)
• Tuesday, November 25 Handbrake – lost for Slackware (66)
• Saturday, October 18 October Flash Dance (7)
• Wednesday, October 15 New OpenJDK 7: Update 71 with lots of fixes (4)
• Tuesday, October 14 My Linux Rig (11)
• Tuesday, October 14 KDE update: 4.14.2. No KDE5 updates yet – devs need to get their act together (26)
• Saturday, October 11 LibreOffice, Chromium news (19)
• Saturday, September 20 Fighting spam (11)
• Thursday, September 18 KDE galore (14)
• Thursday, September 11 Updates for Chromium and Flash in sep 14 (11)
• Sunday, August 31 New Chromium now supports Netflix natively without Wine plugins (46)
• Sunday, August 31 LibreOffice 4.3.1 packages are ready (3)
• Sunday, August 24 What you do when it rains (46)
• Friday, August 22 KDE 4.14.0 – no big surprises (26)
• Thursday, August 14 On LKML: an open letter to the Linux World (74)
• Wednesday, August 13 Updates for Chromium and Flash (8)
• Wednesday, August 13 First preview for Slackware of Plasma 5 (40)
• Friday, August 8 KDE Frameworks 5.1.0 and Plasma 5.0.1 on the horizon (20)
• Wednesday, August 6 LibreOffice moves up to 4.3 – today, you can’t own a better Office Suite (46)
• Saturday, August 2 VLC, the VideoLAN player, in version 2.1.5 (5)
• Wednesday, July 16 New KDE: 4.13.3 (56)
• Wednesday, July 2 Field trip (5)
• Thursday, June 19 Skype drops support for ALSA (45)
• Sunday, June 15 Last week: new Chromium, Flash, OpenJDK (10)
• Tuesday, June 10 KDE 4.13.2 monthly maintenance release (29)
• Thursday, June 5 New pipelight release, accompanied by wine-pipelight. And what about chromium? (5)
• Thursday, June 5 Reset The Net – 05 june 2014 (5)
• Wednesday, June 4 Waldkorn sourdough bread (10)
• Tuesday, June 3 KDE Frameworks 5 and Plasma Next (3)
• Tuesday, June 3 Slackware-current – new multilib gcc compiler suite (5)
• Tuesday, May 13 LibreOffice 4.2.4 came along (4)
• Tuesday, May 13 New: KDE 4.13.1. For Slackware-current users. (19)
• Friday, May 9 New multilib versions of glibc and gcc for slackware-current (26)
• Wednesday, May 7 Recipe: rice pie (limburgse rijstevlaai) (5)
• Tuesday, April 29 KDE SC 4.12.5 for Slackware 14.1 (and -current if you want) (13)
• Tuesday, April 29 New Flash player – security fix (3)
• Monday, April 21 Rebuilt LibreOffice 4.2.3 packages fix KDE-related bug (14)
• Saturday, April 19 Corn flour bread rolls (6)
• Thursday, April 17 How to make UPC Horizon TV work in Linux (3)
• Thursday, April 17 Security update: OpenJDK 7u55 (created with icedtea 2.4.7) (3)
• Wednesday, April 16 Ready for download: KDE 4.13 (59)
• Saturday, April 12 LibreOffice 4.2.3 – addresses Heartbleed vulnerability (11)
• Wednesday, April 2 KDE SC 4.12.4 for Slackware 14.1 and -current (23)
• Friday, March 14 More Chromium, LibreOffice and Flash updates (15)
• Monday, March 10 Barracuda’s Copy cloud storage (29)
• Tuesday, March 4 KDE 4.12.3 for Slackware-current (and 14.1) plus some goodies (67)
• Monday, March 3 Raspberry Pi and Broadcom: a birthday present (2)
• Thursday, February 27 Two not-so-exciting updates but useful to some (4)
• Tuesday, February 25 Chromium, LibreOffice, Pipelight, Flashplayer updates (9)
• Thursday, February 6 The week in review (10)
• Thursday, January 30 Compiling new LibreOffice sources is a bitch (21)
• Wednesday, January 29 Chromium and OpenJDK bugfix releases (8)
• Friday, January 17 New Chromium: 32.0.1700.77 (2)
• Wednesday, January 15 Flash security updates too (and chromium on the horizon) (6)
• Wednesday, January 15 OpenJDK 7u51 (created with IcedTea 2.4.4). (2)
• Tuesday, January 14 KDE 4.12.1 for Slackware-current (10)
• Tuesday, January 7 KDE 4.11.5 for Slackware 14.1 (5)
• Thursday, January 2 Setting up Jack Audio in Slackware (38)
• Thursday, January 2 New SQLite driver for the blog (2)

2013 (78)

• Monday, December 30 A journey into recording sound & video in Slackware (23)
• Thursday, December 19 LibreOffice 4.1.4 for Slackware 14.0 and newer (13)
• Thursday, December 19 Freedom of Choice 2013 (4)
• Wednesday, December 18 KDE 4.12 is available (23)
• Wednesday, December 18 Recipe: braided cinnamon wreath (5)
• Monday, December 16 City of Munich completes migration to Linux of 15000 desktops (17)
• Saturday, December 14 SteamOS is out – based on Debian, not Ubuntu (7)
• Thursday, December 12 Memories of Doom (7)
• Tuesday, December 10 VLC 2.1.2 has been released (21)
• Wednesday, December 4 KDE 4.11.4 for Slackware 14.1 (11)
• Saturday, November 23 Chromium for Slackware, with salt & pepper (87)
• Saturday, November 9 Pipelight: using Silverlight in Linux browsers (131)
• Thursday, November 7 Slackware 14.1 released (19)
• Tuesday, November 5 KDE 4.11.3 ready for install (10)
• Sunday, November 3 Recipe: foccaccia (5)
• Saturday, November 2 LibreOffice 4.1.3 for Slackware 14.0 and -current (14)
• Monday, October 21 Security release: OpenJDK 7u45 (6)
• Friday, October 18 Education and Open Source (29)
• Wednesday, October 16 Two rebuilt KDE packages. (1)
• Wednesday, October 16 Slackware 14.1 RC1 (10)
• Wednesday, October 9 Libreoffice 4.1.2 packages and the blog is back up (15)
• Wednesday, October 2 KDE SC 4.11.2 and new networkmanagement applet for testing (19)
• Sunday, September 29 So I finally packaged VLC 2.1. And what about LibreOffice? (18)
• Monday, September 23 SteamOS coming to your living room (3)
• Monday, September 23 OpenJDK 7u40_b60 built with IcedTea 2.4.2 (0)
• Thursday, September 19 Slackware 14.1 Beta1 has arrived (0)
• Tuesday, September 3 KDE SC 4.11.1 (40)
• Monday, August 26 Best FOSS or Linux Blog of 2013 (24)
• Sunday, August 25 Introducing slackpkg+, an extension to slackpkg for 3rd party repositories (164)
• Friday, August 23 Calibre reaches 1.0 after nearly 7 years of development (10)
• Monday, August 19 VLC 2.1 Rincewind about to enter the arena (17)
• Wednesday, August 14 KDE 4.11 is out (72)
• Tuesday, August 6 Sadness and loss (28)
• Sunday, July 21 Security update: flashplayer-plugin (6)
• Saturday, July 20 KDE 4.11 – first release candidate available for Slackware-current (56)
• Saturday, July 20 LibreOffice 3.6.7 (last in series) packaged for Slackware 13.37 (6)
• Monday, July 8 OpenJDK security update: 7u40_b31was built with IcedTea 2.4.1 (0)
• Tuesday, July 2 KDE 4.10.5 – final increment in the 4.10 series (9)
• Saturday, June 15 Rainy weekend update (8)
• Monday, June 10 OpenJDK 7 Update 40 (yes, 40) courtesy of IcedTea 2.4.0 (6)
• Tuesday, June 4 KDE 4.10.4 – packages for Slackware 14 (11)
• Saturday, May 18 Last week’s harvest (13)
• Friday, May 10 LibreOffice 4.0.3 packages ready for download (and a rant) (11)
• Thursday, May 9 KDE Software Compilation 4.10.3 for Slackware 14. (3)
• Thursday, May 9 A look on the sunny side (23)
• Monday, April 22 OpenJDK 7 Update 21 released (7)
• Sunday, April 21 Rebuild for glibc-2.17_multilib in slackware-current (0)
• Friday, April 12 VLC 2.0.6 (finally) released. New flash plugin too. (2)
• Saturday, April 6 Alien’s ARM sources and git (11)
• Saturday, April 6 LibreOffice 3.6.6 for Slackware 13.37 (5)
• Friday, April 5 I rebuilt the gcc-4.8.0 multilib packages (9)
• Friday, April 5 LibreOffice 4.0.2 packaged for Slackware 14 (19)
• Wednesday, April 3 KDE 4.10.2 for Slackware 14 (6)
• Tuesday, April 2 Only 24 hours in a day (3)
• Thursday, March 28 Multilib update for slackware-current: gcc-4.8.0 (6)
• Tuesday, March 19 Call for help: Slackware on an ARM Chromebook? (37)
• Tuesday, March 12 A glibc-2.17 multilib update for slackware-current (5)
• Tuesday, March 12 New IcedTea for OpenJDK 7u17 (5)
• Saturday, March 9 Half-Life Dedicated Server (14)
• Thursday, March 7 New LibreOffice; and KDE recompiled for Slackware 14.0 (33)
• Tuesday, March 5 KDE 4.10.1, but packaged only for slackware-current (25)
• Saturday, March 2 Survey results for Linux gaming on Steam (23)
• Wednesday, February 20 OpenJDK 7u15 bugfix release ready (4)
• Thursday, February 14 Steam client for Linux is out of Beta (23)
• Wednesday, February 13 OpenJDK 7u13_b20 available: a security update (0)
• Tuesday, February 12 Update to Flash Player plugs vulnerabilities (2)
• Tuesday, February 12 Slackware-current adopts KDE SC 4.10 (15)
• Sunday, February 10 Two fix-packages for KDE SC 4.10.0 (7)
• Friday, February 8 LibreOffice 4.0.0 has been released (9)
• Wednesday, February 6 KDE SC 4.10.0 released (62)
• Sunday, February 3 Steam games in Slackware (9)
• Saturday, February 2 Fix package for VLC critical vulnerability (Security Advisory 1302) (0)
• Saturday, February 2 Testing LibreOffice 4.0.0_rc3 (12)
• Saturday, February 2 Packages for LibreOffice 3.6.5, calibre and steamclient, and lots of movement on the horizon (20)
• Saturday, January 26 I got the flu, no new software or posts while I get better (42)
• Wednesday, January 16 Update for OpenJDK 7 with IcedTea 2.3.4 plugs 0-day exploit. (8)
• Friday, January 11 Alien tip: Volume change percentages in KDE (9)
• Wednesday, January 2 KDE 4.9.5 was released. Next should be 4.10. (12)

2012 (75)

• Monday, December 31 Best wishes for a healthy and safe 2013 (17)
• Saturday, December 22 Multilib update for slackware-current (4)
• Thursday, December 20 Steam for Linux Beta opens to everyone (4)
• Sunday, December 16 Valve’s Steam client for Linux (32)
• Saturday, December 15 New VLC and FlashPlayer releases (7)
• Friday, December 7 LibreOffice 3.6.4 has been released (18)
• Wednesday, December 5 Last maintenance release in KDE 4.9 series (22)
• Friday, November 23 mirror & wiki server temporarily down (6)
• Saturday, November 17 Busy days (10)
• Sunday, November 11 Java in Slackware ARM (2)
• Wednesday, November 7 KDE releases 4.9.3 (22)
• Saturday, November 3 Libreoffice 3.6.3 packages available (20)
• Friday, October 19 Slackware Documentation Project – two months later (15)
• Thursday, October 18 Finally, VLC 2.0.4 (23)
• Thursday, October 18 OpenJDK 7 Update 9 with IcedTea 2.3.3 fixes security flaws (11)
• Thursday, October 11 Bugfix packages for LibreOffice (17)
• Friday, October 5 Libreoffice 3.6.2 released (15)
• Wednesday, October 3 LibreOffice 3.6.1 packages (a bit overdue) (19)
• Tuesday, October 2 KDE Software Compilation 4.9.2 (19)
• Saturday, September 29 Multilib packages for Slackware 14 (11)
• Friday, September 28 Slackware 14 released (28)
• Tuesday, September 25 OS upgrade for taper mirror aka docs wiki (6)
• Friday, September 21 End of the week, end of the cycle? (11)
• Tuesday, September 4 KDE Software Compilation 4.9.1 (15)
• Saturday, September 1 Updated glibc multilib packages for Slackware 13.37 (2)
• Saturday, September 1 OpenJDK7 update 7 with IcedTea 2.3.2 fixes more flaws (11)
• Friday, August 31 Updated glibc multilib packages for Slackware 14-rc4 (9)
• Thursday, August 30 OpenJDK 7u6_b30 with IcedTea 2.3.1 fixes 0day exploit (19)
• Saturday, August 25 Slackware 14 release candidate 3 plus multilib updates (14)
• Saturday, August 18 Slackware documentation project (27)
• Friday, August 17 New Libreoffice 3.5.6, and Slackware 14 RC2 (17)
• Thursday, August 9 EOL for old releases (8)
• Thursday, August 9 Commercial games and Linux (15)
• Wednesday, August 8 My Panasonic Lumix DMC-LX5 (18)
• Friday, August 3 Slackware package browser (16)
• Wednesday, August 1 KDE Software Compilation 4.9 is ready (36)
• Thursday, July 26 My (first) Raspberry Pi arrived in the post (20)
• Wednesday, July 25 Back from holidays, some package updates (20)
• Thursday, July 12 LibreOffice 3.5.5 released – just before 3.6.0 (12)
• Wednesday, July 11 Busy days, not Slackware related (20)
• Sunday, July 1 Using SQLite for this blog (0)
• Saturday, June 30 VLC 2.0.2 (13)
• Wednesday, June 27 Getting closer: KDE 4.9 Release Candidate 1 (39)
• Monday, June 25 New multilib packages for slackware-current (17)
• Sunday, June 24 Update 5 for OpenJDK 7 available (29)
• Saturday, June 16 Blog updated to 3.4, sqlite database fixed (10)
• Wednesday, June 13 Testing can continue: KDE 4.9 Beta2 (48)
• Friday, June 8 KDE 4.8.4 (last in the 4.8 series) (34)
• Thursday, June 7 Installing Diablo 3 on Slackware Linux (18)
• Wednesday, June 6 Interview with Patrick Volkerding, tomorrow on LQ (8)
• Sunday, June 3 Results of a few days of packaging software (34)
• Friday, June 1 LibreOffice 3.5.4 – speed improvements (6)
• Thursday, May 31 End of may ramblings (22)
• Sunday, May 6 Taper mirror down temporarily (7)
• Friday, May 4 LibreOffice 3.5.3 (32)
• Friday, May 4 KDE 4.8.3 packages (34)
• Sunday, April 15 Slackware-current gets KDE 4.8.2, hooray (49)
• Thursday, April 12 Finally, LibreOffice 3.5.2 compiles (29)
• Wednesday, April 4 KDE 4.8.2 – updated in Slackware soon (hopefully)! (44)
• Sunday, March 25 Recipe: zoervleis (sour meat) (6)
• Saturday, March 17 VLC 2.0.1 (14)
• Thursday, March 15 Make firefox understand downloaded files (12)
• Wednesday, March 14 Common questions on Akonadi and Nepomuk in KDE PIM 4.8 (4)
• Sunday, March 11 Jean Giraud (Moebius) dies march 10, 2012 (5)
• Wednesday, March 7 KDE 4.8.1 – the best DE you can get (49)
• Sunday, February 26 OpenJDK 7 update 3 available for Slackware 13.37 (29)
• Friday, February 24 Adding Linux to the Windows7 boot menu (30)
• Sunday, February 19 Speeding up my vlc.SlackBuild script (11)
• Sunday, February 19 LibreOffice 3.5.0 is out… no Slack packages yet (12)
• Saturday, February 18 VLC media player at version 2.0.0 (29)
• Monday, February 6 Recipe: Hyderabadi Biryani (2)
• Wednesday, January 25 KDE 4.8.0 arrives (97)
• Wednesday, January 18 LibreOffice 3.4.5 released, OpenJDK package update. (32)
• Saturday, January 7 OpenJDK replacing Oracle’s binaries (47)
• Monday, January 2 Happy New Year 2012 (17)

2011 (64)

• Wednesday, December 14 Fixing audio sync with ffmpeg (39)
• Thursday, December 8 KDE 4.7.4 – last of the 4.7 series (55)
• Sunday, December 4 Recipe: traditional moussaka (12)
• Sunday, November 27 Raspberry Pi deserves Slackware (29)
• Saturday, November 26 Fixes for LibreOffice in KDE (7)
• Sunday, November 13 Multilib version of Slackware’s “11-11-11” glibc (14)
• Sunday, November 13 kmail terminates during startup with “Failed to fetch the resource collection” (11)
• Friday, November 11 LibreOffice 3.4.4 (14)
• Wednesday, November 2 KDE updated to 4.7.3 (40)
• Tuesday, October 11 Integrating NetworkManager into KDE while keeping the Gnome out (46)
• Sunday, October 9 KDE bugfixes and how to use my modular KDE.SlackBuild (18)
• Saturday, October 8 Recipe: Spanish chicken (3)
• Wednesday, October 5 Another maintenance release: KDE 4.7.2 (33)
• Tuesday, October 4 Digitizing my paperback books (12)
• Tuesday, October 4 KDE security fix, Flashplayer 11, random bla (6)
• Sunday, September 11 Package updates in the past days (24)
• Wednesday, September 7 KDE 4.7.1 packages for Slackware (62)
• Tuesday, September 6 Quanta Plus for KDE4 (16)
• Friday, September 2 Libreoffice 3.4.3 (18)
• Wednesday, August 31 Setting up your own Mozilla Sync server (32)
• Friday, August 5 Blog software updated (21)
• Tuesday, August 2 LibreOffice 3.4.2 packages for Slackware 13.37 (35)
• Monday, August 1 Modular KDE 4.7.0 arrives for Slackware (120)
• Monday, August 1 Progressing with KDE 4.7.0 (9)
• Saturday, July 30 Dumping google toolbar (8)
• Tuesday, July 26 Some package updates for KDE 4.6.5 (13)
• Monday, July 25 Back from holiday (8)
• Thursday, July 7 KDE Software Compilation 4.6.5 (30)
• Wednesday, July 6 LibreOffice 3.4.1 … almost production-ready (5)
• Sunday, June 26 Watching multimedia in Slackware’s browser (28)
• Sunday, June 26 Google toolbar in Firefox 5 (6)
• Sunday, June 26 Libreoffice 3.3.3 versus 3.4.0 (3)
• Sunday, June 19 E-book management on Slackware (23)
• Friday, June 10 KDE Software Compilation 4.6.4 (31)
• Monday, June 6 VideoLAN update: vlc-1.1.10 (10)
• Sunday, June 5 Libreoffice 3.4.0 (22)
• Friday, June 3 What’s cooking? (71)
• Sunday, May 8 Slackware packages for KDE SC 4.6.3 (32)
• Sunday, May 1 New packages – should I build them for Slackware 13.37 or for 13.1? (65)
• Thursday, April 28 Out of the box PXE install server in Slackware 13.37 (27)
• Thursday, April 28 Go go! New stable release of Slackware is available: 13.37 (15)
• Saturday, April 9 Fix for shutdown issue in KDE 4.6.2 (6)
• Friday, April 8 Next in series: KDE 4.6.2 (12)
• Sunday, March 27 Wireless Ethernet Bridge (9)
• Sunday, March 27 Slackware has the answer to all (8)
• Thursday, March 24 New libreoffice, vlc packages for your Slackware (21)
• Wednesday, March 16 Slackware 13.37 Release Candidate 2 (15)
• Wednesday, March 9 KDE 4.6.1 add-on for Slackware 13.37 RC1 (41)
• Wednesday, March 9 Multilib updates to go with new kernel (3)
• Saturday, March 5 Updated 64bit packages for libreoffice-3.3.1 (6)
• Wednesday, March 2 LibreOffice 3.3.1 packages (9)
• Tuesday, March 1 Compiling libreoffice, a bumpy ride (7)
• Sunday, February 27 Mongolian folk music (8)
• Sunday, February 13 Package rebuilds for KDE 4.6.0 (8)
• Friday, February 11 New multilib gcc and glibc packages for slackware-current (14)
• Friday, January 28 Recipe: Bogracs Gulyas (14)
• Wednesday, January 26 Please developers don’t hurt me! (16)
• Wednesday, January 26 Get it: LibreOffice 3.3.0 (12)
• Wednesday, January 26 KDE 4.6.0 is here (37)
• Monday, January 24 VLC’s newest release: 1.1.6 (13)
• Saturday, January 22 Release Candidate Four of LibreOffice 3.3.0 (19)
• Saturday, January 15 Libre Office 3.3.0-rc3 (13)
• Tuesday, January 11 Updates for multilib gcc and glibc packages (10)
• Thursday, January 6 KDE 4.6 second release candidate (30)

2010 (68)

• Tuesday, December 28 Libreoffice second release candidate for 3.3.0 (11)
• Friday, December 24 KDE 4.6 first release candidate (27)
• Saturday, December 18 Dropbox 1.0 is out (10)
• Sunday, December 12 Starting with KDE 4.6 (35)
• Wednesday, December 8 First release candidate for LibreOffice (10)
• Wednesday, December 1 New libreoffice and flashplayer packages (22)
• Monday, November 15 Huge update to slackware-current and what it meant to my laptop (36)
• Monday, November 15 Watching out for expiring SSL certificates (6)
• Sunday, November 7 Busy spheres (6)
• Thursday, November 4 I posted new KDE 4.5.3 packages (22)
• Friday, October 29 Another glibc multilib update (7)
• Thursday, October 21 New multilib glibc packages fix local root hole (15)
• Tuesday, October 19 Slackware gcc multilib packages rebuilt (10)
• Saturday, October 16 Compositing hard lock in KDE 4.5 (6)
• Wednesday, October 13 New multilib packages for 64-bit Slackware-current (7)
• Tuesday, October 12 Building LibreOffice from source (46)
• Saturday, October 9 Here you go – KDE 4.5.2 for Slackware (12)
• Thursday, September 16 New adobe flash player for Linux (18)
• Friday, September 3 My new mirror (14)
• Friday, September 3 KDE 4.5.1 – I took the plunge (16)
• Thursday, September 2 KDE 4.5.1 will get Slackware packages… not sure when and where (3)
• Friday, August 27 Running VLC in XFCE (18)
• Tuesday, August 10 KDE 4.5.0 (38)
• Thursday, August 5 Adding an ALSA software pre-amp to fix low sound levels (37)
• Friday, July 30 Wondering how to spend my computer cycles (15)
• Tuesday, July 27 Release candidate 3 for KDE 4.5 (24)
• Wednesday, July 21 Miscellaneous packages (vlc,wine,wiipresent) (12)
• Friday, July 9 Second release candidate for KDE 4.5 (21)
• Tuesday, July 6 KDE SC 4.4.5 for Slackware 13.1 (27)
• Sunday, June 27 Release candidate 1 of KDE SC 4.5 (8)
• Tuesday, June 22 VLC 1.1.0 has been released (11)
• Monday, June 14 Decoding HD video in VLC (18)
• Wednesday, June 9 Beta alert: KDE 4.5 beta2 for the adventurous (14)
• Tuesday, June 8 Fiddling with the KDE 4.5 beta (7)
• Sunday, June 6 KDE SC 4.4.4 available for Slackware 13.1 (22)
• Friday, June 4 Re-encoding video for Android (10)
• Thursday, June 3 ffmpeg fully supports webm video (11)
• Wednesday, May 26 VLC and creating WebM video (13)
• Monday, May 24 Slackware 13.1 is here (10)
• Wednesday, May 19 Google Open Sources VP8 Codec (3)
• Tuesday, May 18 Preparing for a release is tedious (6)
• Friday, May 14 New multilib gcc and glibc coming up for Slackware 13.1 RC1 (9)
• Thursday, May 6 Slackware 13.1 BETA1 (15)
• Wednesday, May 5 KDE 4.4.3 packages for Slackware-current (15)
• Sunday, April 25 X264 encoder gains blu-ray encoding capability (2)
• Friday, April 23 New version of VLC fixes security holes (4)
• Saturday, April 10 Securely browsing the net – using SOCKS (11)
• Thursday, April 1 KDE SC 4.4.2 for Slackware… including PolicyKit (26)
• Thursday, March 18 Upgrading the eeepc to 2.6.33 (14)
• Wednesday, March 3 KDE maintenance: 4.4.1 is out (9)
• Tuesday, March 2 Some goodies to play with (43)
• Sunday, February 28 Securing remote root access (13)
• Friday, February 26 Musings on Software Development With Linux (2)
• Friday, February 26 Using git for version control (13)
• Thursday, February 25 Slackware ChangeLog stalling… or not? (11)
• Tuesday, February 9 It’s been released: KDE SC 4.4.0 (26)
• Sunday, January 31 Compiling a new kernel module for VirtualBox (11)
• Tuesday, January 26 VLMC, and translating a Qt application (1)
• Tuesday, January 26 KDE3, KDE4 and Slackware 13.0 (28)
• Monday, January 25 Updated multilib gcc packages for -current (2)
• Monday, January 25 KDE Software Compilation 4.4 RC2 (7)
• Sunday, January 24 Remote installation of Slackware using ssh (15)
• Monday, January 11 Compiling vlc (and other software) with gcc 4.4.2 (1)
• Monday, January 11 KDE 4.4 release candidate 1 packaged for Slackware (4)
• Saturday, January 9 Robby’s libata switchover howto (8)
• Tuesday, January 5 Bleeding at the edges again? (4)
• Monday, January 4 Second beta of KDE 4.4 (10)
• Saturday, January 2 Flash crashes Firefox on x86_64 (4)

2009 (28)

• Wednesday, December 16 Better font rendering in Wine (8)
• Wednesday, December 9 Welcome Windows user! (54)
• Wednesday, December 9 Celestial phenomenon in Norway (1)
• Monday, December 7 Shit happens… fireworks campaign (2)
• Wednesday, December 2 Installing Slackware using USB thumb drive (81)
• Tuesday, November 24 How opensource works for commercial game developers (1)
• Thursday, November 19 Dropbox (19)
• Sunday, October 18 GTK icons suddenly missing (5)
• Friday, September 25 Alien’s SlackBuild Toolkit (5)
• Monday, September 14 No mouse in X after installing multilib? (2)
• Monday, September 7 Using the Wiimote as a pointing device (2)
• Wednesday, September 2 Interviewed by Linux Magazine (4)
• Tuesday, September 1 Multilib Slackware64 (5)
• Friday, August 7 Covert spam (2)
• Tuesday, June 16 Blog maintenance (3)
• Tuesday, June 16 initramfs unpacking failed: junk in compressed archive (2)
• Wednesday, May 20 slackware64 – yay! (9)
• Tuesday, April 14 Local Slackware mirror (37)
• Wednesday, April 8 Leaps and bounds (7)
• Wednesday, March 25 Alien Tip: protected apache URL (2)
• Wednesday, March 18 Calculating PI (4)
• Wednesday, March 11 Punk Poet (0)
• Wednesday, March 11 Icons disappear in XFCE 4.6.0 (2)
• Tuesday, March 10 Massive updates in slackware-current (20)
• Friday, February 27 Asleep at the wheel, or…? (4)
• Friday, February 20 Installing to a machine with 64MB RAM (5)
• Thursday, February 12 RIP Lux Interior (2)
• Wednesday, January 7 Youtube HD mp4 download (9)

2008 (21)

• Monday, December 29 Sixty four bits (8)
• Friday, December 12 Slackware 12.2 (0)
• Tuesday, December 9 Slackware 12.2 is nearing release (2)
• Tuesday, November 25 SlackBuilds.org submission freeze (2)
• Thursday, November 13 Sjoerd Jongens (3)
• Wednesday, November 12 Beter herrie dan kutmuziek (2)
• Wednesday, November 12 KORG DS-10 (1)
• Friday, October 10 VLC and embedded video (1)
• Thursday, September 25 My dokuwiki got an update (0)
• Thursday, September 18 Banner picture (0)
• Thursday, September 18 Slab! (4)
• Wednesday, September 17 Vim 7.2 (0)
• Monday, September 15 Gravatars (0)
• Monday, September 15 Game of SET (5)
• Friday, September 12 Running X Window on MS Windows (12)
• Thursday, September 11 Network configuration (7)
• Monday, September 1 VLC media player (0)
• Monday, September 1 AST (1)
• Sunday, August 31 Slackware Show 2008, Brazil (0)
• Friday, August 29 To blog or not to blog (0)
• Friday, August 29 O, look! (0)