On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Dieter Plaetinck <announce@archlinux.org> wrote:

Dieter Plaetinck wrote:

Hi, New installation media are available. There are less of them, and they are smaller. But they can do more... Notable changes: Archiso (image builds): * all iso files can now be burned onto CD's as well as written to media like usb sticks (isohybrid) * more than half of the packages in core are now xz compressed * next to the single architecture images we provide dual images which can be used as 32bit or 64bit medium * use isolinux bootloader exclusively for booting the live media * snapshot of current core, including kernel 2.6.33.4-1, pacman-3.3.3-5 and glibc-2.11.1-3 * updated memtest * support for PXE booting * provide wpa_supplicant * support virtio AIF (installation tool): * ability to choose uuid/label/devicefile blockdevice representation; automatically applied in menu.lst, fstab, etc * split off UI library into separate [libui-sh][1] project * support virtio blockdevices * allow user to specify additional custom arguments for mkfs and the like Additionally, quite some bugs have been fixed, mostly in AIF. And of course, the [Official installation guide][2] has been updated to reflect these changes. Thanks to everyone who contributed, this release took a long time but I think it's worth it. [Download][3] [List of packages][4]

  [1]: http://github.com/Dieterbe/libui-sh

  [2]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide

  [3]: http://www.archlinux.org/download/

  [4]: http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki:2010.05

URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/500/

Congrats! Thanks for all the hard work on this. I apologize for not being able to do more, but it all came through in the end. Dieter, you're my hero :)