I do regular updates of packages in my repository. I focus on the software that is popular, or relevant to Slackware. For the software with a high visibility I usually write a blog post to alert people to the new stuff. During the last couple of weeks I have not been writing so much about […]
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I think I am not the only one who runs a graphical Linux desktop environment somewhere on a server 24/7. I hear you ask: why would anyone want that? For me the answer is simple: I work for a company that runs Linux in its datacenters but offers only Windows 10 on its user desktops […]
Today, icedtea-3.14.0 was released. IcedTea is a software build framework which allows easy compilation of OpenJDK. The new IcedTea release will build you the latest Java8: OpenJDK 8u232_b09. This release syncs the OpenJDK support in IcedTea to the official October 2019 security fixes that Oracle released for Java. The release announcement in the mailing list […]
Also during my holiday, the VideoLAN developers released version 3.0.8 of their VLC media player. The Release Notes state that this releases provides fixes for several security issues among wich 11 which are CVE-worthy. Meaning that it’s prudent to upgrade your VLC to 3.0.8 soonest. I have the new packages available (for Slackware 14.2 and […]
The new 3.0.7 release for the VideoLAN multimedia player VLC was tagged in git almost two weeks ago but it took until today to find official tarballs on their web site. By the looks of the git log I can only assume that the VideoLAN developers needed to fix some annoying post-release bugs first. The […]
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