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[arch-announce] mkinitcpio 0.6 uses busybox instead of klibc
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Thomas Bächler 14 Feb '10

14 Feb '10

Thomas Bächler wrote: The new mkinitcpio 0.6 brings lots of changes, most importantly the removal of klibc in favor of glibc and busybox. This update should be flawless and completely invisible to the end user, but if you are paranoid you can still backup your old initramfs image and regenerate it directly after the update to be sure. If you use a root filesystem on NFS, you need to install the new package mkinitcpio-nfs-utils. If you are interested, you can find more details about the changes on [my blog][1]. [1]: http://archlinux.me/brain0/2010/02/13/early-userspace-in-arch-linux/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/486/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, February 2010
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Daniel Griffiths 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: Down And Dirty: * [Get it!][1] * [Discuss it!][2] Enjoy! [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/magazine [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=706396 URL: http://archlinux.org/news/485/

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[arch-announce] xf86-video-intel only supports KMS now
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Jan de Groot 11 Feb '10

11 Feb '10

Jan de Groot wrote: With the move of xf86-video-intel 2.10.0 to extra, support for UMS has been removed from the intel driver. This means that KMS is a requirement now. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/484/

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[arch-announce] KDE SC 4.4.0 released
by Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Pierre Schmitz 09 Feb '10

09 Feb '10

Pierre Schmitz wrote: KDE announced the availability of its Software Compilation 4.4, "Caikaku". You will find all upstream changes and new features on their website: http://kde.org/announcements/4.4/. As usual we provide the latest packages for Arch. Unfortunately this update will need some user intervention due to a pacman limitation. Therefore you have to update in two steps: % pacman -Sy --asdeps qt % pacman -Su Be aware of the following problems that might occur: * The usage of bitmap fonts like terminus will be broken when using the proprietary nvidia driver. * If you update from virtuoso 5 as nepomuk backend as it was provided in the kde-unstable or testing repository you will have to convert your database (http://opendesktop.org/content/show.php?content=119661) or simply remove ~/.kde4/share/apps/nepomuk/repository/main/data/virtuosobackend. The latter is of course only recommend if you had not used nepumuk's tagging and comment features. * In case of any error, try using a new user account or (re)moving KDE's configuration which can be found at ~/.kde4 /tmp/kde-* /var/tmp/kdecache-*. Akonadi saves its data at ~/.config/akonadi and ~/.local/share/akonadi URL: http://archlinux.org/news/483/

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[arch-announce] filesystem-2009.11-1 and LC_COLLATE
by Recent News Updates: Allan McRae 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Allan McRae wrote: The filesystem-2009.11-1 package has removed LC_COLLATE=C from /etc/profile as this caused incorrect sorting on some locales (See FS#15250). Any scripts relying on this value should manually set the LC_COLLATE variable. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/476/

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[arch-announce] ArchCon2010 registration
by Recent News Updates: Allan McRae 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Allan McRae wrote: Two prominent community members, Dusty and ralvez have been working hard to bring Arch Linux it's very own conference. ArchCon 2010 will take place in Toronto, Canada's largest city, on July 22 and 23. Registration is now open at [http://archcon.archlinux.ca/][1] and more information can be found on the ArchCon site at [http://archlinux.ca/archcon2010/][2] ArchCon will feature talks and tutorials from prominent community members and plenty of interactive discussions, development sprints, bug squashing sessions, and, of course, socializing. Earlybird registration ends on February 28th. Those who register early will be doing the organizers a huge favour by helping estimate the number of attendees, and to finance initial costs. [1]: http://archcon.archlinux.ca/ [2]: http://archlinux.ca/archcon2010/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/481/

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[arch-announce] MySQL 5.1.40 - configuration file moved
by Recent News Updates: Andrea Scarpino 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Andrea Scarpino wrote: Starting with the mysql 5.1.40 release, the mysql configuration file resides in the /etc/mysql/ directory and the pid and sock files are in the /var/run/mysqld/ directory. This is to comply with the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/473/

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[arch-announce] Hacklab.CL's Arch Linux Orphan's Day
by Recent News Updates: Aaron Griffin 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Aaron Griffin wrote: This weekend on January 23rd, [Hacklab.CL][1] is organizing an event called [Arch Linux Orphan's Day][2]. This event will consist of talks and presentations about Arch Linux packaging, covering the Packaging Guidelines, the AUR, complementary tools, and much more. The event concludes with a review of the AUR orphan packages and, hopefully, some new maintainers. This will happen at ["KernelHouse"][3] (Antonia lopez de bello 157-A), in Santiago de Chile. [1]: http://hacklab.cl [2]: http://wiki.hacklab.cl/index.php/Proyectos/Archlinux_Orphans_Day [3]: http://kernelhouse.org URL: http://archlinux.org/news/479/

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[arch-announce] Arch Linux Magazine, January 2010
by Recent News Updates: Daniel Griffiths 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Daniel Griffiths wrote: In with a bang: * [Get it!][1] * [Discuss it!][2] Enjoy! [1]: http://ghost1227.com/newsletter/index.html [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=687363 URL: http://archlinux.org/news/478/

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[arch-announce] kernel 2.6.32 series moved to the [core] repository
by Recent News Updates: Tobias Powalowski 31 Jan '10

31 Jan '10

Tobias Powalowski wrote: Hi arch community, The new 2.6.32 kernel series moved to the [core] repository. [Upstream changes][1] Arch Linux bugfixes/feature requests: [# added CONFIG_PM_DEBUG][2] [# added CONFIG_MMIOTRACE][3] KMS changes: - changed intel kms enabled by default - radeon kms is now disabled by default Please use the modeset option to enable it. - Early userspace KMS support is broken at the moment for radeon and nvidia cards. There are some workarounds posted on the [ML][4], [bugtracker][5] and on the forum. Next mkinitcpio update will fix this regression in the future. Arch Linux changes: - split kernel-headers to extra package If you want to build external modules please install: pacman -S kernel26-headers Please change your PKGBUILDS to makedepend on this package. - added xen support to 64bit kernel - [changed to new firewire subsystem][6] [1]: http://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges [2]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16855 [3]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17106 [4]: http://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch- general/2009-December/009480.html [5]: http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/17461 [6]: http://ieee1394.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Juju_Migration URL: http://archlinux.org/news/477/

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