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September 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , |

No, I did not abandon ARMedslack, the official port of Slackware to the ARM architecture… It was simply a matter of lack of time (or a question of priorities, depending of your point of view).
But this weekend I finally found some time to setup a clean build environment based on the stable ARMedslack 13.1 version.
The [...]

March 27th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

The guys that are developing FBReader are releasing so many updates that it is difficult to keep my SlackBuild and packages up-to-date!
Only a few days ago I mentioned the new 0.12.7 version and they're already at 0.12.9
The new version resolves some bugs and improves the Smashwords library support. The code is also compatible [...]

March 22nd, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A new version of FBReader, an e-book reader with functions to download books from some popular sites, has been released.
Version 0.12.7 is mainly a bug-fix release, but it also add some extra support for ePub files.
The new SlackBuild script is in the pending queue on SlackBuilds.org and pre-built packages for Slackware 32-bits, 64-bits and ARMedslack [...]

January 29th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Some days ago I read some messages on the SlackBuilds mailing list about problems with building FBReader on 64-bits Slackware and the right location of the libraries. At first, I had no clue what FBReader was, I was just interested in the technical problem and how it was solved.
I decided to build the program and [...]