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[arch-announce] Planned Downtime
by Recent News Updates 19 Nov '08

19 Nov '08

The main archlinux.org server will be going down for a planned hardware upgrade for some of tomorrow (Nov 20th). We are adding RAM, disk space, and switching to x86_64. Thanks to everyone who has donated, you're the ones making this happen. See you all in about a day. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/422/

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[arch-announce] Arch Schwag Storefront
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Most of you are probably aware of the <a href="http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux*">Arch Schwag Shop</a> for custom merchandise hosted by Zazzle. Many of you also know of my attempts to supplement this with other custom merchandise including case badges, USB keys, and jewellery. Now I would like to officially announce a new <a href="http://schwag.archlinux.ca/">storefront</a> for these Arch products making it easier for you to purchase these items and for Simo and I to process the orders. All profits go to supporting Arch Linux development. Thank you for your support! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/417/

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[arch-announce] ZSH Force Upgrade
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

To ZSH Users: The 4.3.9 zsh upgrade must be forced, as the package now properly handles the unzipped man pages. Before they were unzipped in the .install file, meaning the files weren't tracked in the pacman db, now they are never zipped with the '!zipman' options flag. Thanks to Xavier/shining for being a patient, bug and patch submitting awesome dude. Sorry for the inconvenience. (Remember to only -Sf zsh , not -Syfu. Unless you want that.) URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/421/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for November, 2008
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-nov.html">Newsletter for November 2008</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=58704">click here</a>. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/">here they are</a>. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/420/

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[arch-announce] pkgstats: contribution was never that easy
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Annoying bug you filed not fixed? Waiting on a package to be updated? If only there was some way you could help out and improve everybody's favourite Linux distribution... (in case you are wondering, I mean Arch). Wait! There is! Just install the pkgstats package (pacman -Sy pkgstats), run the /usr/bin/pkgstats script as a user and help the Arch developers prioritize their efforts. Come on, all the cool kids are doing it. You can be like them! For more information read our forum at http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=445710 URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/419/

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[arch-announce] JRE and JDK Moved to Community
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

As some of you may have noticed, the sun Java Runtime Environment and the Java Development Kit have spent too much time waiting in the extra repository waiting for some love. However, no developer was excited to maintain these packages. Since we already have the OPENJDK6 package, an open source implementation of the JRE and JDK, we have decided to move the JRE and JDK packages to community, where Geoffroy Carrier will be taking good care of them. He has already updated the packages and fixed their pending bugs. Thanks Geoffroy for your good deed. No package in the official Arch Linux repositories depends on these packages, as they have already been recompiled against OPENJDK6. However, I want to thank the community for its understanding, and we're sorry for any inconvenience. Why move them, other than the reason given above? Well, we wanted to favor the open source implementation against the closed source implementation. No, really, why did you move them? Because Aaron Griffin said so. :-D (just joking) URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/418/

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[arch-announce] Unplanned downtime
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Sorry about the unplanned downtime- we had an issue with the server this weekend and we couldn't address it until about an hour ago. Everything should be back up again and mirrors should resume syncing tonight. If you notice anything funny or worth noting now that the server is back up, please send an email to the arch-general mailing list. Developers may not see issues if you only post them on the forums. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/416/

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[arch-announce] squirrelmail: return to stable branch
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Back in the paleozoic era, during the migration from PHP 4 to PHP 5, we switched to Squirrelmail's development branch out of necessity. Now many years later, this is no longer a problem. In keeping with Arch general best practices, we are switching to the stable 1.4.x series in [extra]. If you have input for us to consider in finalizing this decision, please let me know. If no new issues come to light, squirrelmail 1.4.16-1, now appearing in [testing], will be moved to [extra] in about a week. Paul URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/415/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for October, 2008
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-oct.html">Newsletter for October 2008</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56483">click here</a>. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/">here they are</a>. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/412/

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[arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.27 in core
by Recent News Updates 11 Nov '08

11 Nov '08

Last night, kernel26 2.6.27-2 has been moved from testing to core. This upgrade seems to be pretty smooth, so don't expect many problems. - Watchdog drivers have been enabled as modules. - MSI/MSI-X is now activated. If your system fails to boot or some PCI devices don't work, add pci=nomsi to your kernel commandline (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56940) - The ipw3945 driver doesn't compile anymore. It's probably easy to patch, but we'll stop maintaining it anyway. Please use iwl3945 or compile the driver yourself (the latest PKGBUILD and patches can be found at http://repos.archlinux.org/viewvc.cgi/ipw3945/trunk/) - The snd-pcsp driver has been added, which emulates a sound card on your speaker. For some people this seems to replace the default sound card. If you have problems with sound after the update, blacklist the snd-pcsp module in rc.conf. If any other problems occur, please use the bugtracker or the arch-general mailing list as usual. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/414/

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