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[arch-announce] GNOME3 in [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 30 Apr '11

30 Apr '11

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: GNOME 3.0.1 is being moved in [extra] This is a major update and you should take note of a couple of things: * GNOME3 is replacing GNOME2 * GNOME3 has two modes, "standard" mode (gnome-shell) and "fallback" mode (gnome-panel + metacity) * Some packages, like applets using Bonobo, will be dropped in the next few days. A list will be available at [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3/Packages_dropped][1] * pulseaudio is now required to run the GNOME desktop Update and installation instructions are available at [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3][2]. Only bugs related to packaging should be reported to [http://bugs.archlinux.org/][3] Crashes and feature requests should be reported to [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/][4] [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3/Packages_dropped [2]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3 [3]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/ [4]: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/ URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/gnome3-in-extra/

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[arch-announce] nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx removed from [extra]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Gaetan Bisson 15 Apr '11

15 Apr '11

Gaetan Bisson wrote: The nvidia-173xx and nvidia-96xx driver packages have been removed from our repositories as they are incompatible with newer xorg servers. This can only be fixed by an upstream update, which has not happened yet. For most video cards, the best alternative should be xf86-video-nouveau; see: [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau][1] As lower-grade options, you might also consider xf86-video-nv and xf86-video- vesa: simply remove the old nvidia driver(s), install these, and the xorg server will automatically pick the best at startup. [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Nouveau URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/nvidia-173xx-and-nvidia-96xx-removed-from-ext…

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[arch-announce] GNOME3 in [testing]
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Ionuț Mircea Bîr u 07 Apr '11

07 Apr '11

Ionuț Mircea Bîru wrote: GNOME 3.0.0 packages are now available in the [testing] repository. These bring with it an update to gtk2, as well as the new gtk3. This is a major update and you should take note of a couple of things: * GNOME3 will replace GNOME2 once it gets moved to [extra]. * GNOME3 has two modes, "standard" mode (gnome-shell) and "fallback" mode (gnome-panel + metacity). * Panel applets using Bonobo aren't supported anymore and packages depending on it will be dropped. * pulseaudio is now required to run the GNOME desktop. * Some packages exist in separate versions for gtk2 and gtk3. These typically have a name like "packagename3". Examples are vte3, libwebkit3, gtkhtml4. * pygobject is now available for Python 3 in the package "py3gobject". Have fun testing these packages! Update and installation instructions are available at [https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3][1]. Bugs related to packaging should be reported to [http://bugs.archlinux.org/][2] . Crashes and feature requests should be reported to [https://bugzilla.gnome.org/][3] . [1]: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GNOME_3 (gnome 3 wiki) [2]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/ (arch linux bugtracker) [3]: http://bugs.archlinux.org (gnome bugtracker) URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/gnome3-in-testing/

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[arch-announce] The Canterbury Project
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Pierre Schmitz wrote: We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Arch Linux, Debian, Gentoo, Grml and openSUSE to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity. Canterbury will be as technologically simple as Arch, as stable as Debian, malleable as Gentoo, have a solid Live framework as Grml, and be as open minded as openSUSE. Joining the Canterbury Project Arch Linux developer Pierre Schmitz explained: "Arch Linux has always been about keeping its technology as simple as possible. Combining efforts into one single distribution will dramatically reduce complexity for developers, users and of course upstream projects. Canterbury will be the next evolutionary step of Linux distributions." Gerfried Fuchs, who gave a talk about Debian at last year's openSUSE conference, said: "While DEX (Debian Derivatives Exchange) might have been a good idea in principle, its point of view is too limited. We need to reach out further for true success." Robin H. Johnson, lead of the Gentoo Infrastructure team, in a panel of core Gentoo developers at SCALE9x: "I really hate compiling-induced downtime. I've been looking forward to installing packages with just a couple of keystrokes. By building on the efforts of other successful distributions, we can take the drudgery out of system maintenance." Michael Prokop, founder of the Grml live CD, can be quoted on the effort that "we managed to create a universal live build framework with grml-live. Our vision was always that it will be universally usable to further the spreading of Free Software." Last year's openSUSE conference had the topic of "Collaboration Across Borders". Klaas Freitag, a respected member of the community, mentioned that "the conference motto was set intentional and actually this is what I had in mind as a positive outcome for the conference." Stefano Zacchiroli, Debian Project Leader, comments on the Canterbury distribution: "during the last year, Debian has worked a lot on the topic of collaboration with other distributions. Some initiatives have been targeted to Debian Derivatives Distribution (e.g. the Derivatives Front Desk, DEX, etc.), but we have also been happy to participate in conferences and panels with other distributions such as openSUSE and Fedora. We are proud of our recent work on collaboration and we are now ready, with Canterbury, to push these initiatives to the next, natural, step: uniting together in the next generation community distribution. Canterbury shall live long and prosper." Please be notified that this announce is just the starting point, the necessary changes will happen in the upcoming days. You can use the #cbproject hashtag to give us your feedback on [twitter][1] or [identi.ca][2]. You can also use our [forums][3] to leave a comment. [1]: http://twitter.com/#!/search?q=%23cbproject [2]: http://identi.ca/tag/cbproject [3]: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=116055 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/the-canterbury-project/

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