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Pat V. emailed a group of Slackware collaborators in Brazil and tasked them with keeping official package updates while he is working on getting better. The updates are currently only available via HTTP, and a few attempts to mirror with wget get a bunch of html junk files, as usual. The slacksec.org team and the [...]
In Patrick Volkerding’s absence, due to his health, a number of Slackware users started slacksec.org to keep up with security concerns. I set up a local mirror of the slacksec packages and they are available via http and ftp: http://ftp.pbandjelly.org/pub/slacksec/ ftp://ftp.pbandjelly.org/pub/slacksec/ (links removed – no longer available)
Recently, I upgraded my Slackware-9.1 workstation with a fresh install of Slackware-10.0. A couple of the applications that I use heavily are Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird, so these got fresh installs, as well. A quick copy of my old bookmarks file is all I need to restore Firefox, and I use IMAP for email, so [...]