For those of you too impatient to wait for the official package, you can build Mozilla Firefox 8.0.1 using the .SlackBuild from ftp://slackware.oregonstate.edu/pub/slackware/slackware64-13.37/patches/source/mozilla-firefox/ Just grab these files: firefox.moz_plugin_path.diff.gz firefox.png mimeTypes.rdf.gz mozilla-firefox-mimeTypes-fix.diff.gz mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild mozilla-firefox.desktop slack-desc Then grab the source from ftp://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/8.0.1/source/ File:firefox-8.0.1.source.tar.bz2 File:firefox-8.0.1.source.tar.bz2.asc Make mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild executable: chmod a+x mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild Then run it ./mozilla-firefox.SlackBuild With any luck, [...]
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Slackware.com is Back!
Woohoo! the Slackware site is back and jamming! As so often is the case, my panic was for nothing. That is all, Stu…
Slackware Web Site Missing in Action
Yesterday, I noticed that the site slackware.com seems to be missing. Instead of the beautifully simple normal site, I see a silly parked-domain-style landing page. Eeek! After a little poking around, I found the server still holding the real site at: http://64.57.102.34/ Perhaps I panicked. My hope is that this update to the DNS entries [...]