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No real "structural" changes, but there have been a lot of library.app updates since the last release. Gritty details below :-) ---------------------------------------------------------------- absolute64-20221120 Snapshot released -- Sunday, 11/20/2022 -------------------------------------...

08/01/2022

https://www.absolutelinux.org/LiveUSB__gen.html



Initial login for LIVE USB:
User "root"
password "root"

Absolute64-20220724 released Sunday, 07/24/2022 Some fixes... cleaned up Vivaldi installer a little, fixed a bunch of my image manipulation scripts to work properly with switch from imagemagick to graphicsmagick. Heavily edited idesktool to manipulate desktop/icons. Stripped down the installer for t...

Nice interface addition of using idesktool (heavily modified for Absolute) to create/edit idesk and desktop icons. Thursday, 07/21/2022 xap/screenshots-20220721-noarch-1AL.txz Corrected for change from imagemagick to graphicsmagick xap/idesk-0.7.8-x86_64-2AL.txz Instituted configuration via idesktoo...

You can, but you have to install all the /xfce packages from Slacware64-current,
and tweak startup.

Honestly, however,
if you want xfce you shouldn't bother with Absolute.
Slackware with xfce if perfectly fine and fairly lightweight.

Tuesday, 07/05/2022 a/kernel-huge-5.18.9-x86_64-1.txz a/kernel-modules-5.18.9-x86_64-1.txz ap/dmidecode-3.4-x86_64-1.txz ap/mpg123-1.30.0-x86_64-1.txz d/git-2.37.0-x86_64-1.txz d/kernel-headers-5.18.9-x86-1.txz k/kernel-source-5.18.9-noarch-1.txz l/harfbuzz-4.4.1-x86_64-1.txz l/libidn-1.41-x86_64-1....

Absolute64-20220701 released Monday, 07/04/2022 Vivaldi is the default browser, but Firefox still installed. Kind-of UN-UNIXy... but what can I do? I want the speed and customization of Vivaldi, but I want old and slow, Mr dependable to hang around. I let Vivaldi block trackers internally but use ub...

Quite a large update, if using gslapt, make sure to run update, mark all updates, AND view what is available to make sure you get the new ADDED packages. Monday, 05/09/2022 l/Imath-3.1.5-x86_64-1.txz Added l/python3-alabaster-0.7.12-x86_64-1AL.txz Added l/python3-babel-2.10.1-x86_64-1AL.txz Added l/...

I'm about to update the libldap package -- but this has a version bump, and unlike Slackware, Absolute seems to have 63 other packages that depend upon it... So I suggest folks who like to "keep up" take a couple days off until I clear all the new packages later in the week :-( Here's what...

Monday, 02/28/2022 xap/qtfm-6.2.1-x86_64-20220228AL.txz Removed "trash" funtionality, I simply don't use it... Removed the internal compression shortcuts in menu -- they do not function in the manner of perl "atool" utility I incorporated into arox. Specifically, Absolute's utili...