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[arch-announce] JRE and JDK Moved to Community
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '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://archlinux.org:80/news/418/

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[arch-announce] Arch Schwag Storefront
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '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://archlinux.org:80/news/417/

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[arch-announce] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) For those who don't know Geoffroy, he's been with us for some time, helped out with pacman development (in particular, with code in the signed-packages arena), and has been a TU for since May of this year. He plans on primarily helping us out with Bluetooth packages (which we've been slacking on these days), among other things. Hip-hip-hooray! URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/426/

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[arch-announce] Note on fresh TeXLive installs
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

With the latest update of texlive-core, some new hyphenation patterns cause TeX capacity to be exceeded when some formats are created. In the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, change the line trie_size = 600000 to trie_size = 700000 Then run sudo fmtutil-sys --missing and everything will be fine. URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/425/

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[arch-announce] X.Org 7.4 moves to extra
by Recent News Updates 21 Dec '08

21 Dec '08

X.Org 7.4 has been moved to extra. After sitting in testing for quite some months, it's time to move this package. This version fixes quite some issues present in the old version we had in extra. This version contains some important changes: - Input hotplugging is enabled by default now. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more information. - nvidia-71xx is no longer supported and has been removed from the repositories. Affected users should install xf86-video-nv or xf86-video-vesa, complaints can be sent to nvidia for not providing compatible drivers. URL: http://archlinux.org:80/news/424/

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[arch-announce] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier
by Recent News Updates 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) For those who don't know Geoffroy, he's been with us for some time, helped out with pacman development (in particular, with code in the signed-packages arena), and has been a TU for since May of this year. He plans on primarily helping us out with Bluetooth packages (which we've been slacking on these days), among other things. Hip-hip-hooray! URL: http://archlinux.org/news/426/

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[arch-announce] Welcome Geoffroy Carrier
by Recent News Updates 05 Dec '08

05 Dec '08

I want to wish a warm welcome to our new developer and bluetooth maintainer, Geoffroy Carrier (gcarrier) For those who don't know Geoffroy, he's been with us for some time, helped out with pacman development (in particular, with code in the signed-packages arena), and has been a TU for since May of this year. He plans on primarily helping us out with Bluetooth packages (which we've been slacking on these days), among other things. Hip-hip-hooray! URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/426/

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[arch-announce] Note on fresh TeXLive installs
by Recent News Updates 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

With the latest update of texlive-core, some new hyphenation patterns cause TeX capacity to be exceeded when some formats are created. In the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, change the line trie_size = 600000 to trie_size = 700000 Then run sudo fmtutil-sys --missing and everything will be fine. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/425/

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[arch-announce] Note on fresh TeXLive installs
by Recent News Updates 03 Dec '08

03 Dec '08

With the latest update of texlive-core, some new hyphenation patterns cause TeX capacity to be exceeded when some formats are created. In the file /usr/share/texmf/web2c/texmf.cnf, change the line trie_size = 600000 to trie_size = 700000 Then run sudo fmtutil-sys --missing and everything will be fine. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/425/

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[arch-announce] X.Org 7.4 moves to extra
by Recent News Updates 30 Nov '08

30 Nov '08

X.Org 7.4 has been moved to extra. After sitting in testing for quite some months, it's time to move this package. This version fixes quite some issues present in the old version we had in extra. This version contains some important changes: - Input hotplugging is enabled by default now. See http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Xorg_input_hotplugging for more information. - nvidia-71xx is no longer supported and has been removed from the repositories. Affected users should install xf86-video-nv or xf86-video-vesa, complaints can be sent to nvidia for not providing compatible drivers. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/424/

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