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Applications/Software: Updates and Developments in GNU/Linux Projects

Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Feb 03, 2024

Norbert Preining ☛ SASL-XOAUTH2 etc for Arch Linux

I recently found myself in need of reading and sending emails from an MS Outlook server.

Linux Links ☛ Best Free and Open Source Software: January 2024 Updates

January 2024 updates to the largest compilation of recommended free and open source software available for Linux.

Linuxiac ☛ Cygwin 3.5.0 Drops Older backdoored Windows Platform Support

New Cygwin 3.5.0 drops backdoored Windows 7/8 support, introduces advanced file system features, improved package info, and more. Learn what's new!

Barry Kauler ☛ woofV splitting packages into exe dev doc

Woof, from the very early days, has script '2createpackages', that opens up each package, applying packages-templates if required, and generally getting it ready to copy into the rootfs. That last step is done by script '3builddistro'.

Another thing that '2createpackages' does is split the package up into "exe", "dev", "doc" and "nls" folders. The "dev" folders are what go into creating the devx SFS.

The splitting code is the same in WoofQ as in the early Woof v1; very slow and cumbersome. Woof-CE testing-branch has improved the script considerably: [...]