If you want to build the latest and greatest of KDE 4.0.72 you will need to have Akonadi 0.80.0 built first as things seems to break without this package. Let me save you a lot of time by giving you an Akonadi package. It took a while for me to realize that there was a snapshot (here) of Akonadi available on the KDE mirrors in one of the support directory. I’ve basically took soprano built script from Robby Workman and modified it for Akonadi.
You can get Akonadi package here.
And the Akonadi Slackbuild script here.
Enjoy.
April 24, 2008 – 10:03 pm
I’ve got a bunch of new packages that I created because the latest one from Robby didn’t really work out for me. Not his fault, there was a bunch of bugs (plasma, panel, kwin) that were annoying me and because I like to live on the edge, I built some of them from SVN. I downloaded Robby SlackBuild script and use them against KDE SVN so if you want to run the latest and greatest, here are some package for KDE.
kdebase-800847-svn-i486-1.tgz
kdebase-runtime-800847-svn-i486-1.tgz
kdebase-workspace-800847-svn-i486-1.tgz
kdelibs-800648-svn-i486-1.tgz
kdepimlibs-800844-svn-i486-1.tgz
Note that those packages are build against avahi and openexr as I have them on my system. Also, those are very experimental so be warn. I will not take responsibility for your mistake except if you tell me they are working ok. 
Enjoy.
UPDATE: Forgot to mention that you probably need to removepkg kdebase*.tgz and then installpkg as the name of my packages aren’t kosher. I knew that but that’s just to make sure whoever installing them is aware of them being experimental. cough cough.
April 19, 2008 – 11:56 am
Here is some new KDE 4 goodness from robby the work man. Like he says in the changelog, those aren’t intended for a production desktop. I’m actually going back and fourth between the new and old KDE and … I think I like the old better still. Anyways, Ill check those out soon when I have time. You can change the packages as the usual location here.
Updated Mon Apr 14 23:57:55 CDT 2008
kde-4.0.68 is not intended as a replacement for the stable kde-3.5.x series;
rather, this is a development snapshot of what will eventually become 4.1.0.
Yes, I know there’s a newer 4.0.69 snapshot available, but the kdepim with
it won’t compile, so we’ll stay with 4.0.68 for now.
I just wanted to let everyone know that there will be this amazing dance company this coming Sunday at the Paramount Theatre in Charlottesville. We will need help filling this place as you may know, there are a lot of seats at the Paramount! We have currently only 30 seats sold through the Paramount box office which isn’t surprising but it’s nerve racking for inFluxdance.
If you come to the show, you will be entertained, that I promised you.
An inFluxdance show is not an ordinary dance show. What is different is how we try to mix various elements and put them in a melting pot that we call dance theatre. This coming sunday you will be seeing dancers from all over but mostly from Charlottesville as there is one piece which was choreographed by a UVA students with many UVA dancers. We have a piece based on the Lorax, one piece on body image, and a piece about being boxed in with labels. Theatrical in nature, inFluxdance pushes the boundaries of interdisciplinary dance to illuminate how humans strive and connect through movement as language.
As always, the show is fully accessible to both Deaf and hearing audiences. I have created a Facebook events to help spread the word.
Feel free to come in and say hi.
By Benoit Beauchamp
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Posted in Dance
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Tagged american sign language, asl, blog, charlottesville, cville, cvilleblog, cvillenews, Dance, deaf, deaf poet, entertainment, influxdance, news, show, spread the word, Theatre
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Well, it took me awhile to do it but I got around it. (finally!) I know it should have been done but I have been swamp with tech’ing Hamlet at Pepperdine University. So all of you cvilleblogs people,
let’s spread the word, April is definitely dance month in Charlottesville!
It’s basic but it’s there…
charlottesvilledancealliance.com
Please do support those artist! Im sure they (including me) need the support.
We might not be starving (hmmm…. yeah right) but we would love to see a full house in the upcoming shows!
That’s a nice one Google. Seriously… I love the math in there. Sooo good.
March 31, 2008 – 11:04 am
I’ve been so swamp with the upcoming production of Hamlet at pepperdine University that I haven’t seen the updated packages from Robby Workman. So if you are looking for the newest KDE packages go check them out at the usual place found right there. Now I would like to thank him because I spent a bit of time trying to just update the packages from his Slackbuilds file and let me tell you, this takes a lot of time. So Robby, thank you for spending the time to build those. I won’t call myself lazy because I did try and spend half a day on them but …
So go download them and test them out. Let me know how it all works out for you guys.
UPDATE: packages of KDE 4.0.3 for slackware are available at http://kde4.rlworkman.net/
I was wondering what was happening when the little screen went black on my flight from LAX to ATL. It seems they were rebooting the “media” system. To my amazement, I noticed the little penguin dude! It was linux. I took a snapshot with my iPhone. I couldn’t figure out which flavor of linux but, I’m sure it’s very specific for there need. The satellite TV wasn’t working during the flight but you could buy various movies and games. I didn’t buy anything… I use my money for something better then movies and games…
By Benoit Beauchamp
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Posted in Technology
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Tagged atlanta, flight, iphone, lax, linux, los angeles, media, movie, os, satellite, system
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February 13, 2008 – 11:52 pm
Well it’s been two weeks since the point release for KDE4 has been release in the wild. I was wondering when rlworkman (aka slackware package guru) would bring this new version into this world. Well, there you go, he just done it again with a new domain mind you. Without further due, you can find the new packages here. Don’t forget to check the readme. Here is the changelog
Wed Feb 13 17:36:36 UTC 2008
TESTING/kde-4.0.0: Removed. Don’t panic 
I’ve just pushed kde-4.0.1
packages to a different computer; due to the very high bandwidth usage
here on cardinal last month coupled with the fact that I have a large
amount of unused bandwidth on my 1and1.com account, I decided to host them
there. I did set up a nice subdomain though to make them easy to find:
the new location is http://kde4.rlworkman.net/
Unfortunately, I can no longer offer rsync access to the kde4 packages,
as 1and1 will not allow it to pass through their firewall and will not
make exceptions, it seems.
Be sure to read the updated _README file in the toplevel directory there,
as some of the information has changed. Have fun! –RW
UPDATE: kde 4.0.3 are available at http://kde4.rlworkman.net/
February 1, 2008 – 4:21 pm
New updated packages. It’s kinda bizarre that I get excited about them, moving along.. Most notable update, Alsa is now version 1.0.15. You can check the Alsa Changelog here. Alsa development version is 1.0.16.
Do you smell anything? Hum, do I smell a Slackware point release? …
Thu Jan 31 21:51:05 CST 2008
ap/alsa-utils-1.0.15-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to alsa-utils-1.0.15.
l/alsa-lib-1.0.15-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to alsa-lib-1.0.15.
l/alsa-oss-1.0.15-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to alsa-oss-1.0.15.
x/font-misc-misc-1.0.0-noarch-3.tgz: Removed bogus fonts.alias.
The install scripts will make it. Thanks to Piter Punk.
x/libXmu-1.0.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libXmu-1.0.4.
x/xf86-video-amd-2.7.7.6-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to xf86-video-amd-2.7.7.6.
x/xf86-video-nv-2.1.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to xf86-video-nv-2.1.7.
x/xinput-1.3.0-i486-1.tgz: Added xinput-1.3.0.