Hello list, once again we have some news I thought they would be worth to be mentioned: 1) archlinuxppc.org has arrived It took a while for me to consider my options and now I have found an affordable solution that will fit our needs perfectly. The new server is more or less set and all major services are migrated. Web: http://www.archlinuxppc.org (needs some more work though) CVS: The following are available: CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-current" / MODULE: current CVSROOT=":pserver:anonymous@cvs.archlinuxppc.org:/home/cvs-extra" / MODULE: extra We have implemented a similar way of doing things by tagging CURRENT or TESTING analog to what the i686 guys invented, that means "testing" became obsolete and was merged with "current" and tagged accordingly. FTP: All packages including ISO-snapshots are available via anonymous-ftp from here: ftp://ftp.archlinuxppc.org It might take a while until I have done a Pacman package with the new list, for now the few of you using ArchPPC should edit their lists manually. RSYNC: The module structure staid the same but the domain has changed so feel free to use: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-current archlinuxppc.org::archppc-extra and last but not least: archlinuxppc.org::archppc-testing 2) PowerMac kernel now implements INITRD changes I have made the effort to integrate mkinitrd and all necessary changes to the kernel26-pmac package. For now it seem more or less stable. Glad that tpowa and apeiro did such a great job, huge thanks goes out to both of them. By the way, hwdetect and network-profiles are there as well and work perfectly. 3) Welcome aboard benoitc! He was of great help setting up CVS on the new server, reporting bugs and making suggestions. Also he has been working on G4 specific issues with Firefox and Gnome. Having said that, he plans to contribute the wonderful GNOME which hopefully will attract more people to run Arch on PPC. Let's all cheer for him. ;) 4) What's next? Now that we have all services migrated to the new server, I hope we can catch up with the regular tasks and upgrade to the latest packages in order not to fall behind i686 too much. Right now Xorg 6.9RC3 and firefox 1.5 are in the making and will arrive on the repos shortly. On top of that, I have received word from cnuke today, that there finally is the much anticipated opensource driver for the Airport Xtreme (TM) widely used in iBooks and PowerBooks. I will see about how to integrate them, maybe this could be done much better by benoitc or elkrammer since both own *Books? ;) Well, that's all folks. May the force be with you and good luck with whatever you do right now. Best regards, -kth5