Wednesday, June 18, 2003

So Easy, Even A.T. Hun Can Do It! -- 12:31 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Few phrases strike fear into more people's hearts than the words "kernel upgrade." Roling your own kernel still isn't the most fun thing in the world, but modern distros have made upgrading a snap. I just completed my first kernel upgrade in Slackware following this security advisory. I just had to download the packages, run upgradepkg, run lilo, and I was done. Piece o' cake. I also made a new boot disk (Remember this step, kids! You'll thank me later). The only thing was that I had to remember to set /etc/inittab to boot to a console instead of to X so I could recompile the NVIDIA kernel module. After having made that mistake several times, I'm pretty good at avoiding it now.

Shadows of Undrentide Review -- 11:02 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Gamespy slapped up a review of Shadows of Undrentide, the new expansion for Bioware's Neverwinter Nights. It sounds pretty much like what I would have expected. If you like NWN, here's more of it. My guess is that the best part of the expansion will be what mod makers do with it. Thanks Shacknews.

Mozilla 1.4 RC2 Released -- 9:26 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

The Mozilla team has released Mozilla 1.4 release candidate 2. You can check out the release notes here and download the build of your choice here. I've been using RC1 with no problems since it came out.

Tuesday, June 17, 2003

WineX 3.1 Released -- 8:05 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Transgaming has released WineX 3.1, the latest version of their gaming fork of WINE. Included in this release are better installer support and support for several new games including Morrowind and Grand Theft Auto: Vice City.

New OSX version of Quake 3 -- 1:00 pm CST, Update by The Master

id Software's Graeme Devine updated his .plan with word of a new OSX 10.2 version of Quake 3 available on the Id FTP site:

There's a new build of Quake3 for Mac OS X on the id ftp server. This is for 10.2 or later only. This version fixes support for certain add in audio sound cards, adds a brand new ppc QVM compiler, and "tada" adds Altivec code to aid MD3 rendering. Thanks go to Apple and especially Ken Dyke over there for making this happen.

A.T. Hun comments: He updated his .plan again with word that a new build has been uploaded due to some problems with gcc 3.1.

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