KTOWN: live ISO with Plasma6 Alpha. Also, chromium now supports HEVC/AC3 playback
I have uploaded a 5 GB ISO file containing a new KTOWN variant of Slackware Live. This is the KDE Plasma6 Alpha release. Play around with it and perhaps you will be able to contribute to an improved Beta by finding a
@libreoffice is here on Mastodon to spread the word on the awesome #libreoffice suite of applications. Use the available documentation (written by the community) to improve the quality of your writing, sheets and presentations.
If you are a #Slackware user, be sure to install the libreoffice package I provide for the 15.0 and -current distro versions. These packages are natively compiled on Slackware and fully tap into the power of the OS. Download them from https://slackware.uk/people/alien/slackbuilds/libreoffice/ .
Just a heads-up to you people who wondered when Alien BOB would pick up on the KDE Plasma bleeding edge again.
Simply put: Patrick did a hell of a job pushing every new KDE Plasma update into the slackware-current package tree (even before the 15.0 release) in no time. There was nothing for me to do (or to improve on) since Plasma5
57 years ago on October 20, 1966, Patrick Volkerding was born. Volkerding is best known as the founder and creator of Slackware, one of the earliest Linux distributions.
Slackware, introduced in 1993, quickly gained recognition for its simplicity and adherence to the Unix philosophy. While other Linux distributions embraced modern package management systems, Slackware maintained a more traditional approach
Chromium 118 (also ungoogled) is a security update
I uploaded new 64bit packages for Chromium 118.0.5993.70 (also the un-googled variant) for which the sources were released a few days ago. This first release in the 118 series addresses a critical vulnerability (CVE-2023-5218) so it's wise to upgrade.
As mentioned in a previous blog post,
You have surely noticed an increase in the frequency with which I am releasing new chromium and chromium-ungoogled packages. This is caused by a new release policy from Google, with an update every week and a bump in the major version (currently 117) every month.
I have tried keeping up with that schedule, but I am giving up.
Just yesterday I uploaded my packages for chromium and chromium-ungoogled to 117.0.5938.92. Only to discover right before heading to bed that there's a new security update available... Chromium 117.0.5938.132 fixes a zero-day vulnerability in libvpx (CVE-2023-5217) which is already actively exploit
10 years ago I was typing Micro$oft (or worst), wearing #Slackware tshirts and fighting #FUD in every talk. So why I joined #Microsoft? It is not always just money.
Liveslak 1.8.0 – more filesystems supported, lots of fixes
Liveslak updates! Quite soon after my August ISO refresh, I used some free moments to implement a request of sorts and fix some longstanding bugs.
Version 1.8.0 of the liveslak scripts is now available, containing these enhancements and fixes.
Links to the liveslak git repository and download locations
@Anniiii
Basically to just try something different. Either #Slackware or a #Debian base - since I know and love both of em.
Yes, I quite like sysvinit for it's simplicity 😉
I’ve been revamping my #orgmode setup on #Emacs, specifically org-agenda and org-todo. I miss the full integration between org-contact and org-agenda for birthdays in agenda view, and it seems to be the cause of a version mismatch - I’m using Emacs 27, default to #Slackware 15
This incompatibility probably causes the error, a silly one where ‘date’ is a void variable within the ‘org-contacts-anniversaries’ function.
Some recent package updates: chromium (-ungoogled), ffmpeg, handbrake, pipewire-jack
Chromium, regular and un-googled.
Google is speeding up its Chromium release cycle. Let's see if I can keep up since I also build the -ungoogled variant. The latest update is 116.0.5845.140 and addresses a vuln