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[arch-announce] JRE and JDK Moved to Community
by Recent News Updates 04 Nov '08

04 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 willing 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 depend on these packages, as they have already been recompiled against OPENJDK6. However, I want to thank the community for their understanding and sorry for any inconveniences. **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 moved them?** Because Aaron Griffin said so. :-D _(just jocking)_ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/418/

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[arch-announce] Unplanned downtime
by Recent News Updates 03 Nov '08

03 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://archlinux.org/news/416/

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[arch-announce] squirrelmail: return to stable branch
by Recent News Updates 23 Oct '08

23 Oct '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://archlinux.org/news/415/

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[arch-announce] Kernel 2.6.27 in core!
by Recent News Updates 14 Oct '08

14 Oct '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/) If any other problems occur, please use the bugtracker or the arch-general mailing list as usual. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/414/

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[arch-announce] New nvidia-173xx packages available for users of GeForce FX cards
by Recent News Updates 11 Oct '08

11 Oct '08

The recently released 177.80 version of the NVIDIA driver stopped supporting the GeForce FX series of cards. If you find your Xorg setup no longer working after upgrading, you need to install the new 173xx legacy drivers: # pacman -S nvidia-173xx Source: http://www.nvnews.net/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=120679 URL: http://archlinux.org/news/413/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for September, 2008
by Recent News Updates 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the [Newsletter for October 2008][1]. To discuss this newsletter, [click here][2]. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, [here they are][3]. [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-oct.html [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56483 [3]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/412/

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[arch-announce] klibc upgrade requires user intervention
by Recent News Updates 07 Oct '08

07 Oct '08

Due to a limitation in pacman's conflict checking and symbolic link resolution, the upgrade to klibc-1.5.14-1 requires manual removal of a symbolic link befole updating. Please run the command "rm /usr/lib/klibc/include/asm" as root to remove the symbolic link that will otherwise cause a few hundred false file conflicts. URL: http://archlinux.org/news/411/

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[arch-announce] netcfg v2.1 in [core]
by Recent News Updates 17 Sep '08

17 Sep '08

netcfg v2.1 is mostly a bug fix release, however there are some important changes and new features. - Remove driver specific hacks/quirks. They now need to be enabled manually using the QUIRKS=() array. - auto-wireless has been moved from net-profiles to a separate daemon net-auto. - A new option (IWCONFIG) to run iwconfig with set arguments before connecting - Various minor fixes Details can be found [on the wiki for all these options][1] Development details for netcfg can also be found [on the wiki][2] [1]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_profiles [2]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Network_Profiles_development URL: http://archlinux.org/news/410/

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[arch-announce] TeXLive now in extra
by Recent News Updates 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Based on the official release last week of [TeXLive 2008][1], a collection of texlive packages is now available in extra and replaces the obsolete tetex. Some important points to note: * PLEASE READ THIS: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/TeXLive * The installation now goes to /usr instead of /opt/texlive. Upon upgrading from the 2007 packages, you might encounter some error messages about binaries not found under /opt/texlive/bin: you can safely ignore them. * Instead of upgrading, I suggest you simply remove all your old texlive packages first, and then do a clean install under /usr. * For reasons of space and because life is too short, I decided not to provide the documentation. You can consult it online at http://tug.org/texlive/Contents/live/doc.html or on CTAN. Documentation packages might soon be made available on [community] though. [1]: http://tug.org/texlive URL: http://archlinux.org/news/409/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for September, 2008
by Recent News Updates 01 Sep '08

01 Sep '08

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the [Newsletter for September, 2008][1]. To discuss this newsletter, [click here][2]. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, [here they are][3]. [1]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2008-sep.html [2]: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=54521 [3]: http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/ URL: http://archlinux.org/news/408/

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