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As many of you know, Slackware ships with a heap of software for the main distribution, but does not have a binary repository like some other distributions for additional. Hence, a volunteer organization: Slackbuilds.org (SBo), as well as others too numerous to mention.
For CAS and numerical calculations, covering a huge range of mathematics, including basic algebra, calculus, elementary to very advanced number theory, cryptography, numerical computation, commutative algebra, group...
Given my recent hectic work schedule, I am drifting behind a bit in my SBo updates. However, I was able to squeeze out a bit of time to update test a the Nvidia-390.59 proprietary drivers for Slackware 14.2 stable kernel 4.4.132 updates. So far so good. I haven't had time to test the multilib compat32 yet (Steam, WINE, etc).
Let me know of any issues, especially with the pure 32-bit Slackware. The only 32-bit Slackware install I have available is a MSI Atom netbook, besides a qemu...
After some maintenance on the antique hardware and a new hard drive, I decide to upgrade to slackware-14.2. All seemed ok until I noticed (months later) that www.linuxgalaxy.org web site was no longer accessible from the outside world, as was murmur ans ssh. All worked well from inside my network. Therefore, it's not a web/murmur/ssh server configuration. The firewall script is passing though the correct ports - even turned it off for a bit and no change. Thus, its either:
My hobby server is down while I fix up the ol' gal. The boot HD was an antique 40GB IDE Seagate that has started to flutter a bit. 15+yrs continuous use. Not bad. I'll move data to a new 1GB WD SATA drive and move on up to Slackware-14.2 "real soon now." I might even get done by the time current hits RC1 ! At this point I am not sure if I'll finally toss this old 2000 vintage HP Compaq d530 CMT (P4 2.66Ghz, 2GB). I had neglected cleaning it for a bit, and the case had quite a few cobwebs...
The version of libimobiledevice-1.2.0 released Jan 28, 2015 and shipped with 14.2 stable is too old to support plug and play for newer iDevices. IPhones, etc will generate a mount or access error. For my work iPhone, I usually just want to dump photos and video. There are patches and workarounds - such as using iCloud. Just goes to show that in 2 years much changes in the mobile device space. There has been dead silence on requests for upstream to push a new release. For example: https://github.com/libimobiledevice/...ice/issues/456...
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