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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Sep 02, 2023

Some recent package updates: chromium (-ungoogled), ffmpeg, handbrake, pipewire-jack

Chromium, regular and un-googled. Google is speeding up its Chromium release cycle. Let’s see if I can keep up since I also build the -ungoogled variant. The latest update is 116.0.5845.140 and addresses a vulnerability. You can now upgrade to my latest chromium and chromium-ungoogled packages.

woofQ support to build with Void .xbps packages

Had better report on this, as rapid changes. Already posted about mime handling for .xbps packages:

https://bkhome.org/news/202308/mime-handling-for-void-linux-xbps-packages.html

The target is to build EasyOS from Void Linux .xbps packages. The great thing is that heaps of work has been done for this in Woof-CE.

The version of vi shipped with the BSDs

Hackaday ran a story about Vim with some interesting history. I knew the late Bram Moolenaar had started the project on the Amiga, though I didn’t know the history of the original code going back to Tim Thompson’s Stevie on the Atari ST, and the ports made by Tony Andrews. I swear the world is conspiring to get me into buying a 520 or 1040ST.

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