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Pretty confused I guess or just a newcomer to Slackware :-)
It's historically documented in an interview on The Slack World, which unfortunately is no longer in existence but its archive is preserved by the same Alien Bob: https://slackware.nl/slackworld/2010...ware-13.1.html
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Out of order: question 13.1. Eric, personal question to you: why "Alien BOB"? :-)
Meh. I have been using the "alien" nick long before there was Internet. I never experienced name clashes until I created my own repository on slackware.com and (as a return favour) I decided to show myself in Slackware forums and IRC channels to help other people. But there were lots of aliens out there! In order to register an unique nick, I had to make a fast decision. I looked at my screen, and saw my command prompt "alien@bob$" … et voila!
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Sat Jan 6 09:54:11 UTC 2024
chromium-ungoogled: updated to 120.0.6099.199 (Slackware 15.0 & onwards).
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Fri Jan 5 17:49:59 UTC 2024
chromium: updated to 120.0.6099.199 (Slackware 15.0 & onwards).
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Wed Jan 3 21:51:39 UTC 2024
poppler-compat: updated to 24.01.0 (Slackware-current).
Install this '-compat' package if you are facing broken 3rd-party packages
after the 'poppler' package in Slackware-current gets updated.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Thu Jan 11 18:41:22 UTC 2024
chromium: updated 64bit to 120.0.6099.216 (Slackware 15.0 & onwards).
chromium-ungoogled: updated 64bit to 120.0.6099.216 (Slackware 15.0 & onwards).
Don't wait for 32bit; it is not coming.
Distribution: Slackware64-current with "True Multilib" and KDE4Town.
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Tue Jan 16 22:18:55 UTC 2024
pulseaudio-jack: updated to 17.0 to stay in sync with the version of pulseaudio in Slackware -current. Depends on jack2.
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Tue Jan 16 21:01:23 UTC 2024
pipewire-jack: update to 1.0.1, to stay in sync with the version of
pipewire in Slackware -current. Depends on jack2.
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Tue Jan 16 08:31:52 UTC 2024
icu4c-compat: updated to 74.2 to stay in sync with -current.
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Alienbob's latest blog entry,
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Chromium 121 for Slackware… don’t hold your breath
January 24, 2024 / alienbob
Chromium 121 sources were released yesterday, and as much as I would like to tell you that the Slackware packages are ready, in fact it appears that you will have to wait for them for an unspecified amount of time.........
For those who don't read Alien Bob's blog the gist is that the man spends enormous amounts of free time and effort to make complex software easy for Slackware users to use. So if you can, throw the man a donation every now and again. His donation link is on his blog.
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