new bugfix current ISO

Here's a new build with some bugfixes following several reports about boot problems on some hardware.

New ISO is mostly a rebuild with xorriso, and latest stable kernel from Slack current.

zenwalk-current_171209.iso

Have fun
JP

The new SlackBuild tool

Recently, if you take a look at the Zenwalk changelog, you may have noticed the addition of a new tool called SlackBuild.

This script is intended to build auto-magically most "simple" packages. It can be customized with optional hook subscripts (build.sh  configure.sh  postbuild.sh  prebuild.sh) to handle complex packages builds.

Anyway, for most simple packages (for example : a library package called "foobar") all you have to do is :

1. put the source alone in a directory (ie : foobar-1.1.tar.gz)
2. put the slack-desc for foobar in this same directory (if you omit the slackdesc, a generic description for foobar will be generated)
3. run "SlackBuild foobar" inside the directory

As a result you will get a binary slackware package for the software foobar 1.1

Please try it :) and report improvements !

Have fun
JP

New current ISO - Christmas edition

Hi,

It's time to release a new current ISO. As usual many changes on the Slackware side and Zenwalk side.

here's the ISO : zenwalk-current_171202.iso (zenwalk-current_160717.iso.md5)

Please take a look at  Distrowatch for a complete list of packages included in this release.

Since it was uploaded, I found a few bugs, already fixed in the current tree : Changelog

Have fun :)
JP

Firefox "Quantum" 57 is ready for testing

Firefox "Quantum" 57 beta is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-57.0b6-x86_64-171008.txz


Quantum announcement

Enjoy the fastest Browser on earth !!

Firefox 56 beta package is ready for testing

Firefox 56 beta package is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-56.0b8-x86_64-1Z.txz

See the release notes https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/56.0beta/releasenotes/

new Desktop layout

Hi,

Here's the new default desktop layout. feel free to install the latest "zenwalk-desktop" package and create un new user to get it configured.

Audio and video production tools updated

Mr Emurikku Sensei, our audio and video production tools maintainer, has just updated a bunch of packages. You can get them from the "m" category, or via Netpkg in the Audio & Video branch.


Enjoy !

ardour-5.10.0-x86_64-1ej.txz
aubio-0.4.5-x86_64-1ej.txz
cppunit-1.14.0-x86_64-1ej.txz
suil-0.8.4-x86_64-1ej.txz
asunder-2.9-x86_64-1ej.txz
qsynth-0.4.4-x86_64-1ej.txz
dblatex-0.3.10-x86_64-1ej.txz
libsodium-1.0.12-x86_64-1ej.txz

libuninameslist-20170701-x86_64-1ej.txz
zeromq-4.2.1-x86_64-1ej.txz
kernel-modules-rt-4.9.35_rt25-x86_64-1ej.txz
kernel-rt-4.9.35_rt25-x86_64-1ej.txz
ibus-1.5.16-x86_64-1ej.txz
kernel-source-rt-4.9.35_rt25-noarch-1ej.txz
json-glib-1.2.8-x86_64-1ej.txz
vala-0.36.4-x86_64-1ej.txz
evince-3.24.0-x86_64-1ej.txz
git-cola-2.11-x86_64-1ej.txz
nextcloudclient-2.3.2-x86_64-1ej.txz
owncloudclient-2.3.2-x86_64-1ej.txz

New Zenwalk Current ISO for 15 July 2017

Hi,

After a few months, it's time for a new current ISO.

This rolling release ISO provides lots of packages updates from upstream, latest Zenwalk apps, and a special build of Firefox 55 beta.
 
zenwalk-current_160717.iso

• Sun Jul 16 12:23:13 CEST 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-55.0b9-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded (this beta seems to be stable enough for current)

• Thu Jul 13 20:36:15 CEST 2017

        z/flashplayer-plugin-26.0.0.137-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded

• Fri Jul  7 20:39:36 CEST 2017

        z/libreoffice-5.3.4-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded

• Sun Jun 18 02:01:32 CEST 2017

        z/flashplayer-plugin-26.0.0.126-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded

• Sat Jun 10 18:58:13 CEST 2017

        z/ffmpeg-3.3.2-x86_64-2Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/soxr-0.1.2-x86_64-1.txz: Added

• Thu May 18 19:32:11 CEST 2017

        z/flashplayer-plugin-25.0.0.171-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded
        z/libreoffice-5.3.3-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded
        z/mozilla-firefox-54.0b9-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded

• Sat May  6 15:07:27 CEST 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-54.0b5-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpeg-3.3-x86_64-2Z.txz: Rebuilt (added mp3lame support, freedom my friends !!) 

• Thu Apr 27 08:38:08 CEST 2017

        z/arc-gtk-theme-010417-noarch-1Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/gnome-disk-utility-3.22.1-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/zenwalk-desktop-9-noarch-4.txz: Upgraded

• Wed Apr 19 09:44:10 CEST 2017

        z/ffmpeg-3.3-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-x86_64-4Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/mpv-0.24.0-x86_64-3Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/mozilla-firefox-53.0-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/flashplayer-plugin-25.0.0.148-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded

• Thu Mar 30 08:28:23 CEST 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-53.0b7-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded (this beta seems to be stable enough for current)

• Sat Mar 25 08:00:11 CET 2017

        z/ffmpeg-3.2.4-x86_64-2Z.txz: Rebuilt
        z/mpv-0.24.0-x86_64-2Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/libreoffice-5.3.1-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded

• Tue Mar  7 14:37:37 CET 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-52.0-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded

Firefox 55 beta package is ready for testing

Firefox 55 beta package is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-55.0b6-x86_64-1Z.txz

New

• Browsing sessions with a high number of tabs are now restored in an instant
  
• Search suggestions are now enabled by default for users who haven't explicitly opted-out
  
• Use virtual reality devices with the web with the introduction of WebVR
  
• Simplify print jobs from within print preview
  
• Assign custom shortcuts to Firefox menu items on OS X and macOS via System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts
  
• Added Belarusian (be) locale
  
• Make screenshots of webpages, and save them locally or upload them to the cloud. This feature will undergo A/B testing and will not be visible for some users.
  
• Fine-tune your browser performance from the Preferences/Options page.
  
• Sidebar (bookmarks, history, synced tabs) can now be moved to the right edge of the window
  
• Search with any installed search engine directly from the location bar
  

Changed

• The Flash plugin is now click-to-activate by default and only allowed on http:// and https:// URL schemes. This change will be rolled out progressively and so will not be visible to all users immediately. For more information see the Firefox plugin roadmap
  
• Breaking profile changes - do not downgrade Firefox and use a profile that has been opened with Firefox 55+.
• Modernized application update UI to be less intrusive and more aligned with the rest of the browser. Only users who have not restarted their browser 8 days after downloading an update or users who opted out of automatic updates will see this change.
  

• Insecure sites can no longer access the Geolocation APIs to get access to your physical location
  

 Have fun :)

Firefox 54 beta package is ready for testing

Firefox 54 beta package is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-54.0b9-x86_64-1Z.txz

This release introduces e10s-multi : 2 content processes are enabled by default in Zenwalk which seems a fair compromise between performance and RAM usage. You can change dom.ipc.processCount to 4 or higher and see if it fits you better. With 4 content processes there's not much difference with Chromium anymore.

 More about e10s-multi  : E10s Update: April 10

FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert", a new major release

FFmpeg 3.3 is available from Zenwalk current repository !

 

FFmpeg 3.3 "Hilbert", a new major release, is now available! Some of the highlights:

• Apple Pixlet decoder
• NewTek SpeedHQ decoder
• QDMC audio decoder
• PSD (Photoshop Document) decoder
• FM Screen Capture decoder
• ScreenPressor decoder
• XPM decoder
• DNxHR decoder fixes for HQX and high resolution videos
• ClearVideo decoder (partial)
• 16.8 and 24.0 floating point PCM decoder
• Intel QSV-accelerated VP8 video decoding
• native Opus encoder
• DNxHR 444 and HQX encoding
• Quality improvements for the (M)JPEG encoder
• VAAPI-accelerated MPEG-2 and VP8 encoding
• premultiply video filter
• abitscope multimedia filter
• readeia608 filter
• threshold filter
• midequalizer filter
• MPEG-7 Video Signature filter
• add internal ebur128 library, remove external libebur128 dependency
• Intel QSV video scaling and deinterlacing filters
• Sample Dump eXchange demuxer
• MIDI Sample Dump Standard demuxer
• Scenarist Closed Captions demuxer and muxer
• Support MOV with multiple sample description tables
• Pro-MPEG CoP #3-R2 FEC protocol
• Support for spherical videos
• CrystalHD decoder moved to new decode API
• configure now fails if autodetect-libraries are requested but not found

We strongly recommend users, distributors, and system integrators to upgrade unless they use current git master.

Firefox 53 beta package is ready for testing

Firefox 53 beta package is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-53.0b9-x86_64-1Z.txz

This release introduces some pieces of the new Servo/Rust engine into Gecko.

More about Servo  : https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Mozilla-Quantum-Servo 

More about oxidation :  https://wiki.mozilla.org/Oxidation

New Zenwalk Current ISO for 22 feb 2017

Hi,

Current seems stable enough for a rolling ISO release, so here it is :

zenwalk-current_220217.iso
zenwalk-current_220217.iso.md5


The main change is the comeback of Firefox, built with GTK3 and multithreading enabled by default : This build of Firefox starts and react nearly as fast as Chromium, and with many tabs opened : scales much better in terms of responsiveness and memory footprint. You will also notice some improvements around ffmpeg, and MPV which is from now the main media player in Zenwalk. Gstreamer has been dropped from ISO but is still available from Slackware repositories. Of course this ISO contains many updated packages (see changelog below).

Have fun :)
JP

Changelog :

• Wed Feb 22 16:28:52 CET 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-52.0b7-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded (this beta seems to be stable enough for current)
        z/flashplayer-plugin-24.0.0.221-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded
        z/libreoffice-5.3.0-x86_64-1alienZ.txz: Upgraded
        z/unrar-5.4.5-x86_64-1alienZ.tgz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Archive-Extract-0.80-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-CPANPLUS-0.9164-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.82-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-Devel-Symdump-2.18-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-Gtk2-1.24991-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-DNS-1.08-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-HTTP-6.13-x86_64-1jp.txz : Upgraded

• Sat Feb 18 08:48:12 CET 2017

        z/gmusicbrowser-1.1.15.2-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded

• Sat Feb 11 16:22:49 CET 2017

        z/ffmpeg-3.2.4-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded
        z/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-x86_64-3Z.txz : Rebuilt
        z/mpv-0.23.0-x86_64-2Z.txz : Rebuilt
        z/transmission-2.92-x86_64-2jp.txz : Rebuilt

• Fri Jan 27 15:39:37 CET 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-51.0.1-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded

• Tue Jan 24 12:51:00 CET 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-51.0-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded

• Wed Jan 18 20:28:21 CET 2017

        z/systemtools-9.1-x86_64-1.txz : Upgraded (added support for libinput in videoconfig)

• Sun Jan 15 10:07:37 CET 2017

        z/systemtools-9.0-x86_64-5.txz : Upgraded (fixed a bug in keyboardconfig,thanks to Emurikku for reporting)
        z/encfs-1.9.1-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded
        z/libreoffice-5.2.4-x86_64-1alienZ.txz : Upgraded

• Sat Jan 14 14:00:41 CET 2017

        z/perl-Archive-Extract-0.78-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-CPAN-Changes-0.400002-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-CPANPLUS-0.9160-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-CPANPLUS-Dist-Build-0.80-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-CPANPLUS-Dist-Slackware-1.024-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Cairo-1.106-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Devel-Symdump-2.17-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Digest-HMAC-1.03-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Encode-Locale-1.05-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-ExtUtils-Depends-0.405-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-ExtUtils-MakeMaker-7.24-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-ExtUtils-PkgConfig-1.15-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-File-Listing-6.04-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-GStreamer-0.20-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-GStreamer-Interfaces-0.06-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Glib-1.324-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Gtk2-1.2499-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Gtk2-Notify-0.05-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTML-Parser-3.72-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTML-Tagset-3.20-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTTP-Cookies-6.01-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTTP-Daemon-6.01-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTTP-Date-6.02-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTTP-Message-6.11-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-HTTP-Negotiate-6.01-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-IO-HTML-1.001-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-IO-Socket-SSL-2.043-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-LWP-MediaTypes-6.02-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-LWP-Protocol-https-6.06-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Log-Message-0.08-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Log-Message-Simple-0.10-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Module-Build-0.4220-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Module-Pluggable-5.2-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Mozilla-CA-20160104-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-DBus-1.1.0-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-DNS-1.07-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-HTTP-6.12-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Net-SSLeay-1.80-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Object-Accessor-0.48-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Package-Constants-0.06-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Pango-1.227-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Pod-Coverage-0.23-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Term-UI-0.46-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Test-Pod-1.51-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-Test-Pod-Coverage-1.10-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-WWW-RobotRules-6.02-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-XML-Twig-3.52-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/perl-libwww-6.15-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/netpkg-6.3-x86_64-3jp.txz : Upgraded
        z/gmusicbrowser-1.1.15-x86_64-2jp.txz : Upgraded  

• Fri Jan 13 20:46:44 CET 2017

        z/tumbler-0.1.31-x86_64-9jp.txz : Rebuilt
        z/flashplayer-plugin-24.0.0.194-x86_64-1alienZ.txz : Upgraded

• Sat Jan  7 17:26:32 CET 2017

        z/zenwalk-desktop-9-noarch-3.txz : Upgraded (new theme)
        z/arc-gtk-theme-010117-noarch-1Z.txz : Added (new GTK theme)
        z/mozilla-firefox-50.1.0-x86_64-4Z.txz : Rebuilt (e10s multi-thread processing is enabled by default)

• Fri Jan  6 19:26:32 CET 2017

        z/mozilla-firefox-50.1.0-x86_64-3Z.txz : Added (built with GTK3 and system Cairo)
        z/flashplayer-plugin/flashplayer-plugin-24.0.0.186-x86_64-2alienZ.txz : Added (thanks to Alien Bob)

• Mon Jan  2 10:34:51 CET 2017

        z/Vivacious-gtk-theme-16.04.4-noarch-2Z.txz : Upgraded (firefox text entries fixed for dark themes)
        z/zenwalk-desktop-9-noarch-2.txz : Upgraded (firefox text entries fixed for dark themes)
        z/ffmpeg-3.2.2-x86_64-2Z.txz : Rebuilt 
        z/mpv-0.23.0-x86_64-1Z.txz : Upgraded

• Tue Dec 20 15:38:54 CET 2016

        z/systemtools-9.0-x86_64-4.txz : Upgraded (enable/disable ALSA in serviceconfig, still useful to restore mixer levels)

• Tue Dec  6 14:55:37 CET 2016

        z/ffmpeg-3.2.2-x86_64-1Z.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-x86_64-2Z.txz: Rebuilt 
        z/mpv-0.21.0-x86_64-6zen.txz: Rebuilt

• Sat Nov 26 09:33:20 CET 2016

        z/systemtools-9.0-x86_64-3.txz: Upgraded (added radeon config for new Xorg in videoconfig)

• Tue Nov 22 08:20:10 CET 2016

        z/mpv-0.21.0-x86_64-5zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.2.0-x86_64-1zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpeg-3.2-x86_64-1zen.txz: Upgraded

• Sun Nov 20 10:59:01 CET 2016

        z/mpv-0.21.0-x86_64-4zen.txz: Upgraded

• Fri Nov 18 20:27:05 CET 2016

        z/chromium-54.0.2840.100-x86_64-1Zalien.txz: Upgraded

• Fri Nov 11 12:00:27 CET 2016

        z/netpkg-6.3-x86_64-2jp.txz: Upgraded 
        z/libreoffice-5.2.3-x86_64-1Zalien.txz: Upgraded 

• Thu Nov 10 15:03:44 CET 2016

        z/netpkg-6.3-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded 
        z/chromium-pepperflash-plugin-23.0.0.207-x86_64-1Zalien.txz: Upgraded 

• Fri Nov  4 20:48:27 CET 2016

        z/chromium-54.0.2840.90-x86_64-1Zalien.txz: Upgraded 
        z/chromium-pepperflash-plugin-23.0.0.205-x86_64-1_alien.txz: Upgraded 

• Wed Nov  2 11:33:37 CET 2016

        z/zenwalk-desktop-9-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded (added web browser pre-loader)

• Tue Nov  1 10:24:48 CET 2016

        z/chromium-53.0.2785.143-x86_64-2zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/zenwalk-desktop-8.1-noarch-8.txz: Upgraded
        z/firewall-8.1-noarch-3jp.txz: Upgraded

• Mon Oct 31 13:11:03 CET 2016

        z/firewall-8.1-noarch-2jp.txz: Upgraded

• Mon Oct 24 13:47:14 CEST 2016

        z/mpv-0.21.0-x86_64-3zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/gnome-mpv-0.10-x86_64-1jp.txz: Added

• Sun Oct 23 10:46:50 CEST 2016

        z/mpv-0.21.0-x86_64-2zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpeg-3.1.5-x86_64-1zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/ffmpegthumbnailer-2.1.1-x86_64-6zen.txz: Upgraded

• Wed Oct 19 14:24:04 CEST 2016

        z/geany-1.27-x86_64-1_zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/libgtop-2.34.0-x86_64-1_zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/chromium-53.0.2785.143-x86_64-1zen.txz: Upgraded
        z/seahorse-3.20.0-x86_64-1jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/gnome-disk-utility-3.22.0-x86_64-2jp.txz: Upgraded
        z/systemtools-9.0-x86_64-2.txz: Upgraded (fixed bug in localeconfig)

• Sun Oct 16 18:04:23 CEST 2016

        z/speech-dispatcher-0.8.4-x86_64-1zen.txz: Added (Chromium dep)
        z/chromium-pepperflash-plugin-23.0.0.185-x86_64-1_alien.txz: Upgraded

Firefox 52 beta ready for testing

Firefox 52 beta package is ready for testing : mozilla-firefox-52.0b6-x86_64-0Z.txz

 See the release note : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/52.0beta/releasenotes/

Firefox 51 beta ready for testing

Firefox 51 beta package is ready for testing : http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/testing/mozilla-firefox-51.0b14-x86_64-4Z.txz
 
See the release note : https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/51.0beta/releasenotes/

New default theme for 2017

New Zenwalk theme for 2017 based on Arc GTK3 !

Mozilla Firefox GTK3

Mozilla Firefox GTK3 is available for testing here :

http://download.zenwalk.org/x86_64/testing/mozilla-firefox-50.1.0-x86_64-1Z.txz

Seems faster and more reliable than the stock GTK2 to me...