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My thoughts on Slackware, life and everything
2019 (22)
Thursday, June 13 June installment of KDE Plasma5 for Slackware, includes Plasma 5.16 (17)Sunday, June 9 Chromium 75 available as Slackware packages (32bit and 64bit) (13)Friday, June 7 VideoLAN releases VLC 3.0.7 (12)Sunday, May 26 April ’19 release of OpenJDK 8 (10)Saturday, May 25 This week’s updates: Chromium, LibreOffice, Flash (13)Wednesday, May 22 Eric goes to Mars (10)Thursday, May 9 Reverse birthday present: KDE-5_19.05 (87)Sunday, May 5 GCC 9.1.0_multilib for Slackware-current (4)Sunday, April 28 Libre Office 6.2.3 packages available (15)Friday, April 26 Chromium 74 available in my repository. Also for 32bit Slackware. (3)Saturday, March 9 Explorations into the world of electronic music production (69)Friday, March 8 Handbrake 1.2.2 packages fix library mismatch in -current (12)Sunday, March 3 2019 Q1 updates for Flash and Java8 (7)Saturday, February 23 GCC 8.3.0 in slackware-current (9)Thursday, February 21 Python3 update in -current results in rebuilt Plasma5 packages in ktown (15)Friday, February 15 Lumina Desktop will be removed from my -current repository (16)Thursday, February 14 Valentine present for Slackers (65)Saturday, February 9 Casting to your ChromeCast in Chromium (11)Sunday, February 3 Updated multilib, chromium. Arriving soon: new libreoffice (24)Thursday, January 17 Uploading 15 GB of new Slackware Live Edition ISO images (12)Wednesday, January 16 KDE Plasma5 – Jan ’19 release for Slackware (67)Tuesday, January 15 New VLC and Flash (5)2018 (39)
Monday, December 10 KDE Plasma 5 for Slackware – end of the year edition (50)Wednesday, October 17 Who wants my old job? (13)Tuesday, October 16 KDE Plasma5 for Slackware – october ’18 batch (79)Saturday, October 6 LibreOffice 6.1.2 packages available (25)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 (28)Saturday, September 8 KDE Plasma5 Sep’18 release for Slackware (36)Sunday, September 2 Pale Moon browser removed from my repository (40)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 (25)Wednesday, July 25 July security updates: Chromium and Flash (11)Saturday, July 7 IndisposedWednesday, 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 (19)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 (57)Saturday, February 10 February release of the Plasma5 Desktop for Slackware (33)Saturday, February 10 Finally: VLC 3 (42)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 (55)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 (10)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 (36)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 (22)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? (81)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 (17)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 (183)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 (335)Friday, November 20 Slackware Live Edition (original article) (2)Friday, November 20 LibreOffice 5.0.3 and new steamclient (20)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 (9)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 (32)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 (176)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 (50)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 (82)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)