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May 17th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

In preparation for the upcoming release of Slackware 13.1, I reorganized my package repository and took a moment to clean up my Slackware Packages page.
It is like 99% automated now, getting the descriptions from the slack-desc files, the category from the SlackBuilds repository (after approval), etc. Some categories I still add manually through a small [...]

May 14th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , ,

How it all started
On the TRS-80 mailing list I subscribe there was a discussion about an old (from 1977!) game I used to play on my TRS-80 Model I called Space Warp. This game was originally called "Time Trek", based on the popular television series Star Trek. When Tandy/Radio Shack released this game commercially, [...]

May 9th, 2010 by Niels Horn in ,

Introduction
BRL-CAD is an open-source solid modeling program originally created by the US Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, that later became the Army Research Laboratory. One of the original creators was Mike Muuss, who also invented the program that has probably been installed on more computers than anything else: the 'ping' utility. (Do check the source code [...]

May 5th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Introduction
The second CAD program I decided to test on Slackware was FreeCAD. As the name implies, this one is completely free, which interested me
The description on their homepage describes the idea and purpose of this program:
FreeCAD is a general purpose 3D CAD modeler. The development is completely Open Source (GPL & LGPL License). FreeCAD [...]

May 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

Introduction
As I wrote in my previous post, looking for a CAD program that runs on Slackware, I decided to check out VariCAD. VariCAD is proprietary software (which means you have to buy it to use it), but they have a fully working Linux version. According to its homepage:
VariCAD is a 3D/2D CAD system for mechanical [...]

April 24th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , |

History
Many years ago (talking about the mid/late 80s) I worked at a company that used AutoCAD for 2D construction designing. This was done on Sun Graphical Workstations that were networked together using a Thick Ethernet coaxial cable and a Unix file and print server. I learned a lot about shell scripting, network configuration, lpr / [...]

April 16th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Version 2010-01 of the LDraw parts library was released recently, so I created a new easy-to-install Slackware package for it.
As always, shortly after this release, the LeoCad pieces library was also updated, to version 3506.
Both packages can be downloaded from my site.

April 1st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Last week RRDtool 1.4.3 was released. It solves several minor bugs in the previous 1.4.2 version and adds a few new options. See here for the updated change log.
I updated the SlackBuild script and submitted it to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages for Slackware 32+64 bits and ARMedslack can be downloaded from the usual page.

March 30th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

A new version for Zabbix - the open source enterprise monitoring solution - was released yesterday. This new version (1.8.2) solves some bugs in the previous version and introduces some new features and improvements. For the complete announcement, check this link.
I submitted the new SlackBuilds for the server and agent parts to SlackBuilds.org. Pre-built packages [...]

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 [...]