Yet Another Waste of Space

This is about three weeks late, but a new stable version of Battle for Wesnoth is available. I have built a package for Slackware 13.0: wesnoth-1.8 If you haven’t yet played this game you should check it out. It is a very polished and professional product, not to mention fun to play.

The updates I did to GLib2 and GTK+2 have allowed me to move to newer versions of GStreamer and the GStreamer plugin packages. This gives access to newer features and bug fixes. One of the main features is gapless audio playback available only in newer versions of GStreamer. Here is a list of the recent [...]

Another two weeks, another new Wine version. Wine 1.1.43 has been released. As with the last update, this one seems to focus on numerous Direct3D fixes. wine-1.1.43

Banshee is a complete multimedia application (video, audio, podcasts, Internet radio, etc.) for Linux written in C#. After spending a few hours squaring away all of Banshee’s dependencies, and the dependencies of those dependencies, a new Slackware 13.0 package is now available. banshee-1.6.0 The slew of dependencies have also been added as packages. Mono was [...]

I’ve built a Slackware 13.0 package for Mono 2.6.3. The package can be downloaded at the URL below: mono-2.6.3 A package for the dependency libgdiplus has also been added: libdgiplus-2.6.2 Of course the build scripts can be obtained from the Subversion repository if you’d rather build the package yourself: http://dev.opennix.com/projects/show/slackbuilds

Still looking for a GTK+ music manager application to suit my needs I have now built packages for Exaile and Rhythmbox. Both look very promising. I haven’t done extensive testing with either one yet but I can’t see a reason not to try them both out. Each one imported my collection of Ogg Vorbis music [...]

Recently I’ve run across quite a few software projects that required newer versions of GTK+2 than what is shipped with Slackware 13.0 in order to build. Because of this old version of GTK+2 I had been unable to build and test those projects. I finally decided to build an upgraded GTK+2 package for Slackware 13.0 [...]

A package for the Speex voice audio compression codec has been added to the Slackware 13.0 repository: speex-1.2rc1

The Slackware 13.0 package for Wine has been updated to 1.1.42. I have added the HW Cursor Patch for World of Warcraft, as well. wine-1.1.42

A Slackware 13.0 package for VLC 1.0.5 is now available: vlc-1.0.5