#Slackware switched to #MariaDB this weekend.
Now just waiting for OpenJDK and then byebye Oracle.

Slackware: The Slackware Linux Project: Slackware ChangeLogs

@Linux Group has someone tried building #Telepathy for #Slackware already? I tried it some time ago, but it had so many dependencies and packages. I had not enough time to go through all of this.

Now it has also Kopete log migration and I would really like to switch.

Davidedmundson: KDE Telepathy 0.6 Beta Released | David Edmundson's Web Log

Today we released a beta of 0.6.0 of KDE Telepathy KDE's instant messaging client. KTp now imports logs from Kopete accounts into our log format. For new KTp users this will be asked if they wish to import when they create an account, existing users can also import logs by opening the log viewer. We had some feedback to improve the notifications of...

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Last week I have read this blog post from last summer about #systemd and what philosophically changes happening in the basic concepts of Linux.

Linux Future | PAPPP's Rambling

Some time ago I came across yet another angry discussion [1]about systemd, and have been reading and thinking a great deal about the design of Systemd, and what it says about Linux. I’ve come to realize that the strife in the Linux community is because an active and well-funded group of developers who have been driving the direction of various co...

I think it has some really intersting points and mostly I agree with it. Yesterday I came across another interesting blog post by Lennart Poettering which is explaining some myths about systemd.

Wunschkonzert, Ponyhof und Abenteuerspielplatz

Since we first proposed systemd for inclusion in the distributions it has been frequently discussed in many forums, mailing lists and conferences. In these discussions one can often hear certain myths about systemd, that are repeated over and over again, but certainly don't gain any truth by constant repetition. Let's take the time to debunk a few ...

I haven't done much with systemd yet, but his points sound reasonable and as a sysadmin I can understand it good and would like to have some of these features, too. But I think it is really a more philosophically question and I am quite ambivalent. I really love #Slackware for its #KISS principles and use it since many years because of this. But I also like working with #SELinux, #Kerberos and I also see some benefits for systemd.

It is also intersting to look at developments like #TYPO3 #Flow with a very strong Convention over configuration pattern which is also following KISS principles actually.

This evening I have reactivated my first and so much loved mobile computer as a virtual machine. Impressive how easy this is with some tools and #VirtualBox. It's a HP omnibook xe4500 and I got it from my parents around 2003. It is a really amazing machine and I have learned a lot about Linux and OpenSource with it and spent really A LOT of time with it! I have compiled and experienced so many and some of the most amazing free and opensource software on this machine. It never had any failures, very solid and I really treated it bad and used it very intensively. Working every day on it for programming, entertainment, communication, studying, gaming, running 29days 8h8min with Linux 2.6.12-rc2 since Fri May 13 16:11:41 2005, transport in a bag while running, I took it two years to Norway and traveling to Indonesia and Norway, completely disassembled and setting it together again several times, etc. Only the battery died after some years and it only survived few minutes, but then the final death was a problem with the power jack that got more and more unreliable. Damn I really need to disassemble it completely again and fix that! There must be a shrine in our new house for it.  The only bad thing about this notebook was that the fan was terrible loud.


Some quick notes how to recover an old PC, for sure I will need this again:
Plug the HDD into an external USB connector for ATA and SATA HDDs.
$ ddrescue /dev/sdX /tmp/hp.img /tmp/hp_ddrescue.log
No read error at all after 10years! IBM Travelstar (Model: IC25N030ATCS04-0) 30GB from JUN-02. Man I have already recovered so many HDDs and machines that did not get treated that hard over such a long time.
$ VBoxManage convertfromraw /tmp/hp.img /opt/VirtualBoxHDDs/hd.vdi --format VDI --variant Standard
Create a new virtual machine and use this VDI HDD and power it up. That's it basically.

It boots directly into runlevel 4 after run fsck after 629 days without being checked. Only had to delete my xorg.conf that I put together in many sleepless nights and I had my full desktop back. #Slackware 12.2 and the great #KDE 3.5.10 and my desktop was loaded with a nice green KDE wallpaper. It presented me all my open browser tabs, konsole and kwrite sessions and even opened eMails again that I was still writing! I love this feature from KDE!!! And I got greated from hundreds of reminders from KOrganizer.

There is still bit work left, like cleaning up some omnibook kernel modules and hdparm settings, changing the network and sound drivers, installing the VirtualBox guest additions, but that should be no big deal anymore.

Does someone have #MariaDB packages for #Slackware, or SlackBuild scripts?

MariaDB schließt Zero-Day-Lücke in MySQL

Die Entwickler des MySQL-Clones MariaDB haben eine Sicherheitslücke in der freien Datenbank geschlossen, die kürzlich bekannt wurde. Bei einem weiteren Bug soll es sich jedoch nur um eine fehlerhafte Serverkonfiguration handeln.

Finally got some time to read this interview. #Slackware is still my favourite Linux distribution.

Linuxquestions: Interview with Patrick Volkerding of Slackware

Patrick Volkerding, the founder of Slackware Linux, agreed to an interview with LQ. Here is what he had to say. Some question were contributed by members. Those questions have the member's name in parenthesis after them. Thanks Pat!

I am most of the time on #Slackware current anyway, but time to upgrade the servers now. :)

#Slackware current dropped all #JAVA stuff from Oracle. No #OpenJDK replacements yet. Hope that will be included soon.

I have just updated #Slackware current that will become soon Slackware 14.0 and updated #KDE SC 4.9rc1 from Alien's ktown-repository.

Just had a small problem that plasma-desktop was crashing when logging in with my user. Other users had no problems. After deleting all ~/.kde/share/config/plasma* files I could login without a problem. All my sessions have been still there, so everything was allright. Just had to customize the desktop widgets a bit again.

KDE SC 4.9 really rocks! Activities work really amazing now and you have much more control over it. Also contact synchronisation with #ownCloud works again. Had some problems since the ownCloud 4.0 update. The desktop feels really responsive, quick and smooth. I it!

Too bad Slackware 14 won't ship KDE SC 4.9.

So many updates for #Slackware!
http://www.stickycomics.com/computer-update/


♲ Willy Sudiarto Raharjo

Massive XOrg Updates

As promised, even though there has been lack of updates in public changelog, that doesn't stop Slackware team to work on updates in the private area. Robby Workman has been doing an extensive work in XOrg area and here are what we got in this changelog: a massive XOrg updates. Slackware-Current now uses a combination of XOrg-1.12, Mesa-8.0.2, xf86-video-intel-2.19.0. This brings the XOrg stack to the latest version available.

There are several packages that gets upgraded besides XOrg, namely tree, llvm, OpenSSH, bluedevil, libwnck, fribidi, and network-scripts.

Time to upgrade my #Slackware machine to #KDE SC 4.8.2