Yet Another Waste of Space

I’ve added a package for DeVeDe to the Slackware 12.2 repository.  DeVeDe is a graphical program that can take many different types of videos as input and create compliant DVD, VCD, or SVCD discs. devede – DeVeDe version 3.11b

The Wine Package for Slackware 12.2 has been updated from 1.1.12 to 1.1.13.  The new package can be downloaded below: wine

A package for the John the Ripper password cracking utility has been added for Slackware 12.2.  This is version 1.7.3.1 with the “jumbo” patch applied. Download John the Ripper.

The following packages have been updated in the Slackware 12.2 repo: dssi – Upgraded to 1.0.0. libsamplerate – Upgraded to 0.1.5 filezilla – Upgraded to 3.2.0 fontforge – Upgraded to 20081224 libquicktime – Upgraded to 1.1.1 mjpegtools – Upgraded to 1.9.0 scons – Upgraded to 1.2.0 In addition to the above updates, the following packages [...]

With Mozilla’s announcement that Firefox 2 will have no more new releases, it is probably time to consider moving to Firefox 3. I’ve heard mixed reviews about the 3.0 release, and I wanted to allow time for bugs and problems to be ironed out, so I’ve been putting off the switch. With the inclusion of [...]

Totem, the official movie player for the GNOME desktop, is now available for Slackware 12.2. I built this mainly because the Totem web browser plugin seems to be about the best out there for viewing movies on certain web sites, for example the Apple trailers. Packages for the dependencies have also been added: iso-codes, libcamel, [...]

A package for QTM has been added for Slackware 12.2. QTM is a desktop weblog client based on QT4. In fact I used it for the first time to add this entry. You’ll find QTM at the following URL: http://slackware.opennix.com/?slackversion=12.2&name=qtm

I have added a package for Inkscape, the open source SVG graphics editor, to the Slackware 12.2 section.  A package for gc, which is a dependency of Inkscape, has also been added. Get them here: Inkscape: http://slackware.opennix.com/?slackversion=12.2&name=inkscape gc: http://slackware.opennix.com/?slackversion=12.2&name=gc

I found typos in the slack-required files for two more Slackware 12.2 packages: ktorren and ogmrip.  They’ve both been corrected and updated.

A package for gparted has been added to the Slackware 12.2 repository.  Also added were the dependencies for gparted: glibmm, cairomm, and gtkmm. Download the gparted package here: http://slackware.opennix.com/?slackversion=12.2&name=gparted