[Slackbuilds-users] nvidia SlackBuilds EOL

King Beowulf kingbeowulf at gmail.com
Tue Mar 8 01:54:38 UTC 2011


As soon as I get back to the homestead I'll whip the maintainer
tarballs over to you.  Traveling for work with a *gasp* WinXP laptop,
so it'll  be a few days since I forgot to open a port for ssh on my
router before I left. Silly me.

Ed


On 3/7/11, Heinz Wiesinger <pprkut at liwjatan.at> wrote:
> On Monday 07 March 2011 19:12:06 King Beowulf wrote:
>> On 3/6/11, Heinz Wiesinger <pprkut at liwjatan.at> wrote:
>> > Hey guys,
>> >
>> > I'd like to announce that I will no longer maintain the nvidia set of
>> > SlackBuilds with the next Slackware release. I've switched to nouveau
>> > completely and it fulfills all my needs.
>> >
>> > If someone else wants to take over those scripts, feel free to do so. I
>> > gladly
>> > offer advise on their maintenance as well.
>> >
>> > The scripts affected by this:
>> >   system/nvidia-driver
>> >   system/nvidia-kernel
>> >   system/nvidia-legacy96-driver
>> >   system/nvidia-legacy96-kernel
>> >   system/nvidia-legacy173-driver
>> >   system/nvidia-legacy173-kernel
>> >   libraries/libvdpau
>> >   misc/vdpauinfo
>>
>> I'll take them on. I need to volunteer more time to Slackware anyway.
>>  Also I and no doubt others would prefer nvidia for certain gaming
>> performance.
>>
>> So sign me up!
>
> Great!
>
> Could you please send tarballs with updated maintainer information to either
> me or slackbuilds-devel?
> I'll take care of it as soon as possible, as long as an other admin doesn't
> beat me to it :)
>
> Grs,
> Heinz
>

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