TeamViewer 8 Beta for Linux

TeamViewer 8 has been released, but unfortunately, it's only released on Windows and Mac. Linux version is still stuck at version 7 and it's not yet compatible with the latest version on another platform.

My Windows machine on the office has been upgraded to version 8 and when i tried to connect to that machine from my Linux system which is still running version 7, it says that i should upgrade my TeamViewer installation to latest version. I have been using the tar.gz binary file to install TeamViewer, but TeamViewer 8 Beta for Linux is only provided on DEB and RPM format, so i had to rely on Binh's SlackBuild script on SBo project which converted from DEB to TGZ format.

The problem is that TeamViewer 8 has some path changes as well as service addon. Right now, we need to make sure that teamviewer daemon (teamviewerd) is started before we launch the main TeamViewer application. I have successfully modified the SlackBuild to work with TeamViewer 8 and i'm planning to push it to my SlackHacks repository, but first, i would like to ask for his permission first. When it's approved, you will see it on my SlackHacks soon enough :)

Last Day of Semester

Today is my last day of this semester. Starting next week, it will be a final test and after that, it will be a long holiday until August. That also means that i'm going to have more time helping Slackware development by testing it and providing updates as much as i can to packages in Slackware which i posted on my SlackHacks repository.

I really wish that next Slackware is around the corner, but it seems that it's far far away from the final release. Usually XOrg inclusion is the sign for previous releases, but right now, XOrg stack has been included by Robby and i think there's still too much packages that needs to be upgraded and re-tested before releasing it.

Oh well, let's just enjoy the long holidays :)

Announcing SlackHacks

Today, i wanted to announce SlackHacks, my new repository at GitHub that contains updated SlackBuilds script that i modified to work with Slackware-Current. Some of them are scripts from SlackBuilds Project, but they have newer version and it's working on -Current (which may have different toolchain such as GLIBC and GCC). They also contains several other contents, such as translated SlackBook and SlackBasics in Indonesian language and also some simple bash scripts.

This SlackBuilds repository is more like a simple hack to help Slackware-Current development by providing and testing some SlackBuild script so that they will be ready when next Slackware is released. The content is not permanent as they will be removed once the same version has been published in SBo project or in the Slackware tree. I will just continue to work on newer version that might need some time to get into Slackware or SBo projects.