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March 30th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , |

After some requests I received, I updated two of my packages for the latest versions:

BRL-CAD - updated for version 7.18.2
viewvc - updated for version 1.1.10

BRL-CAD now has a working version of Archer, user-friendly interface to mged.
viewvc 1.1.10 fixes some bugs.
The new packages can be found on my site.

March 23rd, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

LibreOffice 3.3.2 has been released officially and I prepared the usual packages for Slackware 32- & 64 bits.
I put them in my Slackware 13.37 repository, but they should work just as fine on Slackware 13.1, as these are repackaged from the original binaries built by the Document Foundation.
Feel free to download the pre-built packages or [...]

March 3rd, 2011 by Niels Horn in , |

I altered my SlackBuild script for the newly released 3.3.1 version of LibreOffice and the companion "Language Packs".
The new script is in the "pending queue" on SlackBuilds.org waiting for one of the admins to approve it.
In the mean time, you can get it from my site, where I also uploaded pre-built versions for Slackware and [...]

February 13th, 2011 by Niels Horn in , , , |

The year 2011 started with changes and lots of work, so I have been without time to work on most private projects, including the SlackBuild scripts I maintain.
But things are clearing up and I found some time this weekend to update some scripts - the ones most people asked me about
Actually, this was [...]

December 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Earlier this month Zarafa released version 6.40.3 of their Collaboration Platform, fixing several bugs and introducing a few new features. For more detailed info, check the ChangeLog on the Zarafa forum.
I already submitted the new SlackBuilds for the server product and the webaccess module to SlackBuilds.org and uploaded the packages to my site.

November 28th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The third Beta release for LibreOffice 3.3.0 happened about a week ago, but only now I had some time to resubmit the SlackBuilds and create the packages.
As with the previous Beta2, I created the packages from the binary RPM distributions and uploaded packages for the base LibreOffice suite and for the en_GB, pt_BR and nl [...]

November 20th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , ,

Windows XP and newer versions have the standard feature of "sharing" access to the desktop from remote computers. This is very easy to set up and no extra software is required on the computer that is sharing or the one that is accessing the desktop - as long as they are both running Windows…
I needed [...]

October 25th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

LibreOffice
So you installed one of the beta versions of LibreOffice and it seems to work fine. But you had OpenOffice.org running in your local language and can't get used to "File", "Tools", etc. menus and want them back in your own language you got used to after all these years.
Language Packs
The Document Foundation does not [...]

October 15th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The Document Foundation released a binary tarball of the second beta version of LibreOffice 3.3.0
Packages for both the 32- and 64-bits versions are available on my site. Remember that it is still a beta release and is not recommended for production.

October 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

The day before yesterday was an exciting day for users of OpenOffice.org, as it was the day The Document Foundation announced the birth of LibreOffice.
LibreOffice is a productivity suite that is compatible with other major office suites, and available on a variety of platforms. It is free software and therefore free to download, use and [...]