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November 21st, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , |

Version 0.4 of Hebe, the KDE GUI for Hercules, was released recently.
It brings the following improvements:

New Image tool bar with actions similar to the Linux console panel
New improved, bigger status bar with CPU selector
If a suspend file is found, an option to resume is offered

Here is a screenshot of the new version, running the standard [...]

June 28th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

On the Hercules mailing list I read about a new graphical interface for Hercules on Linux, designed for KDE 4.4.
It is called "Hebe", after Hercules' wife (according to Greek mythology).
Hebe is described on its homepage as:
Hebe is a new KDE 4.4 front-end GUI for the Hercules z/Arch emulator. It was designed to have a modern [...]

February 15th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , , ,

Since I was doing some tests with Slackware running on different platforms (Slack/390, Slack/390x, ArmedSlack on Qemu, etc.) I wanted to compare the performance of the different setups.
I used a (quite old) utility called nbench that was originally written in 1995 but still is a simple way to compare how processors perform, emulated or real. [...]

February 14th, 2010 by Niels Horn in , , , |

Today Carnival started her in Brazil. Well, I'm Dutch so I don't care too much about all the festivities (it is a nice party though).
So what better to do than finally test the 64-bits version of Slack/390?
I wrote an 11-part post about installing Slack/390 on Hercules more than a year ago, and it [...]

September 8th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

Today Jakob Dekel released the first beta version of Hercules Studio, a GUI front-end for Hercules - the System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture emulator.
On his site you can find pre-built packages in RPM and DEB format.For us Slackware users, I created Slackware packages as well, after getting some extra information from a very friendly Jacob Dekel.
The [...]

September 7th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , , |

I have received a few requests for pre-built Slackware packages for the Hercules System/370, ESA/390 and z/Architecture emulator.
I have used Hercules for some time now to run Slack/390 and had already created my own package, but it was not really up to the right standards to be published.
But, with the release of Slackware 13.0 I [...]

May 30th, 2009 by Niels Horn in |

Just a quick note…
xpdf has been updated for Slack/390.This is a security patch, so update your -current system with SlackPkg without further ado!
In the mean time: I've been playing around with ARMedslack. I'm just waiting for an opportunity to test it on real hardware, but for the moment I'm running it on the [...]

May 2nd, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

As promised in my previous post, some instructions to use SlackPkg in Slack/390 to keep your installation up-to-date.
After almost two years without activiry, the maintainers have released some patches / upgrades for Slack/390 - both the -stable and the -current versions.Since I use SlackPkg on my other Slackware installations (12.1, 12.2 & -current), I wanted [...]

May 1st, 2009 by Niels Horn in , , |

For those who have been following my posts on installing Slack/390 on Hercules:There has been a security update this week - see the ChangeLog
I recently managed to patch a current version of SlackPkg to work on Slack/390 (the version included in /extra does not work).I'll try to organize my notes during the following days and [...]

November 22nd, 2008 by Niels Horn in , , ,

…Continuing from Part 10
Final configuration and IPLing Slack390
The setup program configured our network, but missed some important details we need to get our network up and running.
1) Loading the network adapter kernel module at boot time
Since we selected to use the LCS we need to load the kernel module that supports it.
This is done by [...]