Yet Another Waste of Space

The Slackware 13.0 package for OpenOffice has been updated to version 3.2 RC4 of ooo-build. Download it at the following URL: openoffice-3.2.0.4

Get the latest release of Wine for Slackware: wine-1.1.37

For me there is no one-size-fits-all set of options to encode my CDs with. Encoding to Ogg Vorbis quality 6 seems to strike a good balance between quality and size. However, forcing my entire music collection to that format and quality limits me. Therefore, I’d like to re-encode all my CDs with FLAC, replacing all [...]

About a week ago the ooo-build folks released 3.2 RC2 of their OpenOffice source. I’ve spent the past few days playing around with the build process to get it squared away. As of now I think everything is working correctly, so the binary package for Slackware 13.0 32-bit is being uploaded as I type this, [...]

Something I’ve thought of doing for a while, but never got around to, was making the Slackbuild scripts for my packages available for download. They’ve always been available with the downloaded binary packages, but that is a pain for people who don’t need the binary or don’t want to waste the time to download all [...]

Today WineHQ released version 1.1.36 of Wine. The Slackware 13.0 package is currently being built. It will be available at the URL below within a few hours. wine-1.1.36

Version 0.94 of HandBrake was built using a revision of ffmpeg which had trouble transcoding from VC-1 encoded sources. HandBrake would crash when dealing with such sources. Do to this problem I have gone back to using current development snapshots of HandBrake for my Slackware packages. Download a package for revision 3036 below. handbrake-svn3036

As promised by the QMC2 developers, a new version of this QT4 front end for MAME/MESS has been released. Download the Slackware 13.0 package at the URL below: qmc2-0.2b13

Happy New Year! SDLMAME 0.136 has been released and a package for Slackware 13.0 is being built right now. It should be available for download shortly at the URL below. According to the QMC2 website, a new version of the MAME frontend should be available soon, too. I’ll have a package of that build when [...]