My thoughts on Slackware, life and everything
Unfortunately the Forge web site forge.slackware.nl is super slow today. The reason: an onslaught from many many IP addresses belonging to Chinese infrastructure. It almost feels like a DDoS attack. Every repository, every commit, every blame page seems to be requested and the requestors are hiding that they are bots. A UserAgent containing Edg/145.0.0.0 i.e. [ ]
Recently, and unexpectedly, I noticed a lot of errors in the output of the script which populates the git repository for Slackware. Specifically, when it updated the 15.0 branch which tracks the updates in Slackware 15.0. I did an evening of troubleshooting and fixing. Somehow, the root user had dumped a copy of Slackware-current in [ ]
In an earlier article here on the blog, I documented how I have setup cgit to create a browseable web interface to my git repositories, most notably git.liveslak.org and git.slackware.nl. That configuration has worked just fine for years, and you could clone a branch of a repository using the https:// git URI and that works. [ ]
Take the work of art with a grain of salt please 🙂 This is an article about computer-generated art but with my own photographs as the source material. In May, the last of our four cats died. They were two pairs of Holy Birmans, first two little sisters who we took in when they were [ ]
I wanted to share some news with you. After weeks of hard work and being forced to learn new tech from scratch, the Slackware Community Forge, a git software forge, is now available at https://forge.slackware.nl/ . It s not just a git repository server but also a Docker container registry! What the Forge? I created [ ]
Time for a KDE Plasma6 package refresh. On KDE s announcement page, the releases of KDE Gear 26.04.1 and Frameworks 6.26.0 were announced yesterday and today. Since OS packagers have early access to the source tarballs, I had everything compiled and ready for days and could simply push everything into my ktown repository today. I also [ ]
Today I pushed fresh Slackware packages (for 15.0 and -current, and 32bit as well as 64bit) for various new OpenJDK releases. This is a quarterly process where the Java developers release a GA version. The GA stands for General Availability. The GA version indicates that the software is considered stable, feature-complete, and ready for use [ ]
To be honest, I was waiting for a move from Pat. But I got restless, Pat is otherwise occupied for a few days so I took the plunge. What I am talking about is of course packaging KDE Gear 26.04.0 for Slackware. The latest release of Applications and KDEPIM is nicknamed the KDE at 30 [ ]
The world is on fire, thanks to the orange clown who wages war for personal gain. Or is it because data centers are super-heated running all these AI models 24/7 ? In any case, the AI boom wreaked havoc with my plans to purchase a new computer in order to replace my ageing build server [ ]
KDE just announced the KDE Frameworks 6.25.0, and earlier this week they came with Plasma 6.6.4. I built the packages for those new releases targeting Slackware -current of course. Along with these updates I also refreshed KleverNotes, Krita, Kstars and Okteta to their latest versions. You can find the packages in my ktown repository: [ ]