I pushed a rebuild of LibreOffice 24.2.3 for #slackwareaarch64 today. KDE6 is still chugging away, I’m building with the latest Gear 24.05 because there’s no reason to use the old 24.02 sources, so my tarball will be a bit more recent than the x86 one. I want to look at the newly added apps yet as well, some fun ones in there. https://slackware.lngn.net
I’m actually impressed with Plasma 6 Wayland on the rpi5. It detects the cpu in “About this System”, transparency effects work, everything feels smooth so far. We’ll see if the screen can wake from sleep. That seems to be a killer on other desktops. #slackwareaarch64
#opensuse#aeon is like a 3gb ISO and it’s basically a bare gnome desktop. I can get a 3gb liveslak and ship all the ap/ & l/ sets of Slackware AND use native package managers to maintain it with. Aeon didn’t even have nano installed. What the hell is on that ISO? 😂 I really want to map it all out and see if I can make a comparable live system. Ya know, for funsies.
I don’t read tech books, unless, of course, they are written by this man. It’s like he’s writing them… from inside my head. https://io.mwl.io/@mwl/112328351613330592
I also refreshed what I’m calling the “pkg_dump” of #slackware#aarch64 package builds yesterday. There’s a shit-ton of stuff there, like a full gnome 46 desktop, and the latest Firefox 125.0.1, MAME, i3, sway, hyprland, etc. https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/pkg_dump/
Updated the #nwgshell#slackware#aarch64 repo earlier with the python 3.11 upgrades, as well as pushed all the other updates needed in other repos. NOW I can focus on real updates like hyprland and updating the WebKit-gtk package and deps. Wee! https://slackware.lngn.net/
Initial python3.11 update pushed to the #nwgshell#slackware repo. I think it should all be good, I’ll fix up any issues later. It’s past my bed time now. Let me know if anything’s broken! 👍
Any #slackware#current#nwgshell users want to try the latest hyprland, I’m not adding it to the repo (yet) but I put the needed pkgs here: https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/staging/ install/upgrade them in your existing (x86_64) install. It works, but I haven’t tested all the things yet.
Updated dav1d, libaom, and webkit2gtk-2.44.0 for #nwgshell#slackware and the readme’s still read, so I’ll call these upgrades safe to push to the repo today. I’ll have to look and see if anything else has slipped past me, but I think we’re basically all up to date already, except for hyprland (and updates always break things), I’ll look into that one. https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/x86_64/slackware64-current/nwg-shell/ChangeLog.txt
I finally pushed a new #liveslak#slackware#nwgshell ISO today! A LOT has changed since the last one a month ago. @nwgpiotr has added a webkitgtk-based inline doc reader which also can read everything in /usr/doc, everything nwg-* has had updates, and I’ve even put sway v1.9-rc3 on the iso as my testing says it’s nice and stable. Enjoy! https://rekt.lngn.net/nwg/
#myfirstdistro was Red Hat. A week long download on 56k ISO mind you. The amount of fuckery that held that distro together almost turned me off Linux. Gave Mandrake a try eventually, though it felt just like Red Hat, it was slightly better. Found a special thing when I tried out ZipSlack. ZipSlack gave me the courage to go full-on Slackware and I loved it, and have used Slackware ever since. Once you go Slack you never go back.
@joy had I had access to the retail disk, I’d of bought it instead possibly. I can’t say part of the allure was that it felt like I was pirating an epically large game, but the reward was just disappointment in the end. 🤣
I've put online my QT6 build AND I've started a little temporary repo for #slackwareaarch64. Since it's currently having major lag from the x86 Slackware, and there's been a ton of security updates the past week, I've built ALL the updates so #aarch64 users can be as secure as their Intel brethren. Leech the packages or add to slackpkg+ and let it do the talking here: https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/slkupdiff/
QT6-6.6.1 is sitting all alone in https://slackware.lngn.net/pub/aarch64/
I’ve found a glibc/gettext bug on #slackware, I noticed last week or so on arm64 port, which now happened on x86 today to me. But diagnosing the issue is going to be a pain point, cuz who tf wants to mess with glibc? Anyway, now I’m messing with glibc. I’ll break all the things.