By the way, today I opened a new position in one of my IT teams in Veldhoven, The Netherlands (ASML’s HQ):
I am looking for a Senior MATLAB Support Engineer to help support the roughly 8000 MATLAB and SimuLink users in our Research, Development & Engineering departments.
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slackware64-current
- 12 updates January 12, 2026Mon Jan 12 05:09:01 UTC 2026a/kernel-firmware-20260110_fd64737-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.a/kernel-generic-6.12.65-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.ap/qpdf-12.3.0-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.d/doxygen-1.16.1-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.d/kernel-headers-6.12.65-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.k/kernel-source-6.12.65-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.isolinux/initrd.img: Rebuilt.kernels/*: Upgraded.testing/packages/linux-6.18.x/kernel-generic-6.18.5-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.testing/packages/linux-6.18.x/kernel-headers-6.18.5-x86-1.txz: Upgraded.testing/packages/linux-6.18.x/kernel-source-6.18.5-noarch-1.txz: Upgraded.usb-and-pxe-installers/usbboot.img: Rebuilt.
- 6 updates January 11, 2026Sun Jan 11 00:55:46 UTC 2026ap/man-db-2.13.1-x86_64-3.txz: Rebuilt. Fix "man -k" when /usr/share/man is a symlink. Thanks to henca.ap/sqlite-3.51.2-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded.kde/marble-23.08.5-x86_64-9.txz: Rebuilt. Recompiled against protobuf-33.3.l/protobuf-33.3-x86_64-1.txz: Upgraded. Shared library .so-version bump. (Or, at least, we've been told to always expect ABI breakage)l/qt6-6.10.1_20251116_56657e03-x86_64-5.txz: Rebuilt. [PATCH] Move GPU info logging to the GPU thread Thanks to gmgf. Compiled against protobuf-33.3.n/mosh-1.4.0-x86_64-15.txz: […]
my slackbuilds
- Mon, 12 Jan 2026 18:19:24 GMT January 12, 2026chromium-ungoogled: updated 32bit *really* to 143.0.7499.192 (Slackware-current).
- Thu, 8 Jan 2026 20:51:20 GMT January 8, 2026chromium-ungoogled: updated 32bit to 143.0.7499.192 (Slackware 15.0 & onwards).
multilib
- Sat, 10 Jan 2026 19:24:13 GMT January 10, 2026current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
- Sat, 20 Sep 2025 11:35:39 GMT September 20, 2025current/slackware64-compat32: Refreshed the *compat32 packages.
SBo
- SlackBuilds.org changes for Sat, 10 Jan 2026 04:36:18 GMT January 10, 2026academic/gephi: Fixed gephi build. academic/gwyddion: Updated for version 2.70. academic/lammps: Updated for version 2025.07.22_update2. accessibility/blugon: orphan accessibility/unclutter: Use https homepage and download URLs. accessibility/xsct: orphan audio/mpd: Updated for version 0.23.17 audio/ocenaudio-bin: Updated for version 3.17.0 audio/rack: Updated for version 2.6.6. audio/reaper: Updated for version 7.58 audio/siren: orphan desktop/evilwm: update to 1.5 desktop/lxqt-panel: Automatically build plugins […]
- SlackBuilds.org changes for Sat, 03 Jan 2026 00:33:49 GMT January 3, 2026academic/ViennaRNA: Upgrade to version 2.7.2 academic/bcftools: Upgrade to version 1.23 academic/samtools: Upgrade to version 1.23 accessibility/pastebinit: Updated for version 1.8.0. accessibility/termbin: Added (Upload to Termbin). audio/Luppp: Update to latest commit 78fb003 audio/asap: Updated for version 7.0.0. audio/audenc: Removed (use microenc). audio/distrho-mini-series: Removed (Use DPF-Plugins) audio/fabla: Update to 1.4 audio/flac123: Updated for version 2.1.1 audio/microenc: Added […]
Post this on a forum or email server at Purdue University, we used to use MATlab back in the day undergraduate students and it’s handled by the Egineering and School of Technology. I’m sure somebody there might enjoy this opportunity.