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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 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 [...]

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 [...]

April 18th, 2009 by Niels Horn in , |

As a big fan of Slackware, I try to follow the -current branch of this distribution on two of my machines at home.Doing this is not a good idea on a production machine, as things might stop working. The -current branch is mainly for testing newer versions of packages. The developers of Slackware are usually [...]

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