Yeah, its the time for some new updated Slackware package. In those the most interesting to me is Amarok which was upgraded to the latest version. I have been using that version of amarok for awhile. I took the new version for a test drive in KDE4 which will be really nice. I’ve since went back to KDE 3.5.8 because I felt more comfortable with that version and it’s a bit more stable then KDE4 on my system. Here is the changelog with a bit of acknowledgement from Patrick V. about him and other Slackware dude attending the KDE4 release party in California.
Wed Jan 30 19:07:35 CST 2008
d/ruby-1.8.6_p111-i486-2.tgz: Moved some comments out of the ./configure part
of the build script to fix a couple of missed options.
Thanks to Stuart Winter.
kde/amarok-1.4.8-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to amarok-1.4.8.
l/atk-1.21.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to atk-1.21.5.
l/gtk+2-2.12.7-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to gtk+-2.12.7.
l/libmowgli-0.6.0-i486-1.tgz: Added libmowgli-0.6.0, which is needed by
Audacious.
l/libmtp-0.2.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libmtp-0.2.5.
l/libgpod-0.6.0-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libgpod-0.6.0 (major version bump).
l/libxml2-2.6.31-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to libxml2-2.6.31.
l/pango-1.19.3-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to pango-1.19.3.
xap/audacious-1.4.5-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to audacious-1.4.5.
xap/audacious-plugins-1.4.4-i486-1.tgz: Upgraded to
audacious-plugins-1.4.4-i486-1.tgz.
xap/xine-lib-1.1.10-i686-1.tgz: Upgraded to xine-lib-1.1.10.
extra/slackpkg/slackpkg-2.70-noarch-1.tgz: Upgraded to slackpkg-2.70.
Thanks to Piter Punk.
Great thanks are also due to the KDE team, not only for their tremendous
accomplishments over the years, but for the gracious reception they gave to
the members of the Slackware team who traveled to the release event. What
a wonderful group of people! We had a great time there, learned a lot, and
will be applying that knowledge and our new contacts within KDE to provide
the best possible KDE experience for Slackware users. The next Slackware
release will contain KDE 3.5.9, but we’re targeting KDE 4.1.x for the one
after that. The application end of things doesn’t quite fully cover KDE3’s
functionality yet, but by then it will. As I’m sure most of you know, Robby
has put up test packages of the initial KDE 4.0 release which I’ve tested and
found to be consistent with what to expect from a developer’s preview.
The look of the new desktop is stunning, and the use of SVG and hardware
acceleration gives (IMHO) even something like MacOS a run for its money in
terms of appearance and user-friendliness. We look forward with great
anticipation to merging KDE4 when it is mature enough (and it’s getting there
fast), and then watching it just get better and better.
Once again, _huge_ thanks to our KDE friends! Stop by here any time.
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