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KDE Plasma 5 – Slackware October release
I had already finished compiling KDE-5_19.10 and was waiting for the Plasma 5.17 public release announcement, when Pat upgraded libdvdread in slackware-current. That could mean trouble because of the...
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Plasma 5 for Slackware – November ktown release
Dear all, today I released KDE-5_19.11 and it comes with some upgrades to official Slackware packages. Don’t worry – Pat Volkerding kindly added the shared libraries of the official Slackware packages...
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X-Mas Plasma5 – December ’19 release of ktown for Slackware
I uploaded KDE-5_19.12 as an early Christmas present. You can download these fresh packages as usual from my ‘ktown‘ repository. Still targeting a full installation of Slackware-current (with KDE4...
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First ‘ktown’ Plasma5 update for Slackware in 2020
Slackware and Plasma5… what will 2020 bring? For starters, Pat just added Kerberos to Slackware-current! That is the first (small but significant) step towards a big change in Slackware which will...
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PAM landed in Slackware today, also new Plasma5 packages available
OK folks, so today PAM finally landed in Slackware. What does that mean? Not much actually. Your Slackware will keep functioning as before. The new functionality offered by the Pluggable Authentication...
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Updated packages in the past weeks: Plasma5, gcc_multilib, openjdk7 and more
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...
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Replacing ConsoleKit2 with elogind – first steps
Well This was a short reprieve. I created a new batch of Plasma5 packages for Slackware-current as KDE-5_20.06. Be sure to read the upgrade instructions very carefully to prevent a total breakage,...
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KDE Plasma 5 August 2020 release for Slackware
New Plasma5 packages for Slackware-current are ready for download & installation. I skipped July (holiday season) and so here is KDE-5_20.08 aka my August 2020 release. Be sure to read the upgrade...
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Ktown becomes Vtown
So it is finally happening. On US Election Day 2020, Pat Volkerding added “vtown” into the ‘testing’ directory of Slackware-current. The “vtown” in Slackware is essentially my ‘ktown’ repository...
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Today, Plasma5 replaces KDE4 in Slackware
Finally. It’s the major step towards a first Beta release of Slackware 15.0! Pat used this past weekend to merge the ‘vtown’ packages in the Slackware-current testing area into the core distro. The...
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