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News for 2010

!IMPORTANT! Updated license information

Published on 2010-09-06 at 14:30:15 by  Georgi Sotirov

Reviwing the whole list of packages and their license designations, several inconsistencies were found with the designation of the package licenses on the site. This resulted in the follwoing actions, in order to appropriately designate license information:

  • The license LGPL2 was splitted into two:
    • GNU Library General Public License, Version 2; and
    • GNU Lesser General Public LIcense, Version 2.1.
  • Three new licenses were introduced:
    • BSD Like (See COPYING or LICENSE for details) - for all licenses which look like BSD, but include some additional clauses or modified statements;
    • Two-Clause BSD - for licenses which include only the first two statements from BSD license;
    • FLTK License - LGPL Version 2 with some exceptions;
    • Public Domain - not actually a license; rather it means no copyright and and no license is needed;

The license designations of the following packages were changed:

Name Affected versions, revisions Old designation New designation
Dirac All MPL LGPL 2.1
FLTK All LGPL 2 FLTK
LibModPlug All n/a Public Domain
LibOIL All BSD Two-Clause BSD
OpenOffice.org BG >= 3 LGPL 2 LGPL 3
Speex All GPL 2 BSD Like

It's strongly advised to always check the license statements of all the packages, which you install and use. However, in future more strict control will be enforced on the correctness of the license designations on the site, in order to avoid misleading information.

We're sorry for any inconvenience.

Whole range of MySQL software

Published on 2010-09-04 at 20:15:00 by  Georgi Sotirov

With the realse of MySQL ODBC and C++ connectors today the site again offers a whole range of MySQL software for database management, development and aministriation under Slackware Linux. As usual you could find the database server along with the C Connector, but now there are also MySQL Workbench, Connector/ODBC and Connector/C++.

The good news is that MySQL Administator and MySQL QueryBrowser could still be used.

Entertain yourself!

Hot August with lots of packages

Published on 2010-08-31 at 23:39:14 by  Georgi Sotirov

Wow! It has hot in August, but many new packages popped up on the site. There are many upgrades and rebuilds for Slackware 13.1, as well as some for Slackware 13.0.

Enjoy and stay tunned as more is comming!

Slackware 13.1 Released!

Published on 2010-05-25 at 09:25:41 by  Georgi Sotirov

Over the night (in Europe), Patrick has released Slackware 13.1 to the world. It's availiable in both 32 and 64-bit versions, but most of the mirrors are still catching up.

The highlights in these release are kernel 2.6.33.4, KDE 4.4.3, Xfce 4.6.1, updated toolchain, updated libraries and many more. See the official announcement for more details.

You could visit the Slackware Store and buy disks, T-shirts and other to support the project.

Packages for the new release will hopefully pop up on the site soon and until then have fun, happy upgrading and happy slackin'!