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The long-anticipated release of Slackware 15 ids actually getting close. I'm trying to "get my ducks in a row" as far as "maintenance" updates are concerned. Please point out any problems you spot! Sunday, 07/25/2021 a/aaa_base-15.0-x86_64-1AL.txz a/btrfs-progs-5.13-x86_64-1.txz ...

Working on the jpeg-xl support.... Everything is working EXCEPT for alpha support in the GIMP plugin for jxl files. JXL works with the glib plugin, shows up in arox thumbnails (the rox-filer file manager) converts via imagemagick -- uses scripts to give conversion option in both spacefm and arox (pn...

Sunday, 05/09/2021 Extra/chromium-90.0.4430.93-x86_64-1AL.txz xap/gimp-2.10.24-x86_64-2AL.txz Saturday, 05/08/2021 a/bash-5.1.008-x86_64-1.txz a/hwdata-0.347-noarch-1.txz a/kernel-firmware-20210503_ecdfcf8-noarch-1.txz a/kernel-huge-5.10.35-x86_64-1update.txz a/kernel-modules-5.10.35-x86_64-1.txz a/...

---------------------------------------------------------------- absolute64-20210411 Snapshot released -- Sunday, 04/11/2021 ---------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday, 04/11/2021 n/c-ares-1.17.1-x86_64-1.txz: ***ADDED*** a/aaa_base-14.2-x86_64-20210411AL.txz a/aaa_libra...

xap/jpg2webp-20201111-noarch-1AL.txz
Still fixing some old python stuff...

xap/arox-20201112-x86_64-1AL.txz
Updated SendTo and globicons for HTML-Link-To utility.

Monday, 11/09/2020 xap/arox-20201109-x86_64-1AL.txz When "Purging Thumbnails", it will now delete all sizes thumbs, not just those of the current size settings. xap/icewm-1.6.4-x86_64-7AL.txz xap/nomacs-20200820-x86_64-1AL.txz xap/zoom-linux-5.3.472687.1012-x86_64-1AL.txz *** ADDED *** Sun...

Snapshot release for May:

http://www.absolutelinux.org/download.html


Kept up with Slackware until last week or two...
implimented RAW image import for GIMP via RawTherapee.
Lots of updates to arox mimetypes/send-to, icons, desktop files, etc...

If you are updating and still using lilo (as opposed to elilo) You will want to edit /etc/lilo.conf to not include a line that has "vga=771" or something similar. Delete such a line the run lilo. Reboot. Enjoy practical screen resolutions. :-) List of recent updates: Saturday, 02/15/2020 a...

Why kernel is not being updated: From: https://linuxreviews.org/Linux_5.5-rc4_Released_With_Few_Changes There are three changes to Intels i915 kernel driver for Intel iGPUs in this release. Using 5.5-rc3 on a notebook with a Intel CPU/iGPU has worked better than any kernel since 5.0.21 and these 3 a...

Still sticking with 4.19.x kernel due to i915 problems, python3 jump to 3.8 necessitated a lot of repackaging, including pyQt5... which takes me overnight :-) Saturday, 01/04/2020 l/python-soupsieve-1.9.5-x86_64-1AL.txz ***Added*** l/python_BeautifulSoup4-4.6.1-x86_64-1AL.txz ***Removed*** a/brotli-...