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[arch-announce] Dovecot 1.1.14 upgrade requires user intervention
by Recent News Updates 18 Apr '09

18 Apr '09

Due to a limitation in pacman's conflict checking when a directory is replaced by a file with the same name, the upgrade to dovecot-1.1.14-1 requires manual interaction. It's safe to update using "pacman -Sf dovecot" to avoid two file conflicts. Please also have a look at the changed file layout and changes in /etc/dovecot/dovecot-example.conf. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/444/

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[arch-announce] Xorg-server 1.6.0 moves to extra
by Recent News Updates 11 Apr '09

11 Apr '09

Xorg-server 1.6.0 and its related drivers will make their move to extra. This new release features input device properties, DRI2 and kernel modesetting (KMS). Note that DRI2 and KMS are only implemented by the Intel driver at this moment. This release also comes with a new driver: xf86-video-intel-legacy. This driver is an old intel driver version, patched to support recent xorg-server versions. This driver should be used by people having problems with the newer xf86-video-intel driver. People still using xorg-server 1.4.2 are advised to upgrade and replace intel or i810 drivers with the legacy driver. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/443/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for April, 2009
by Recent News Updates 03 Apr '09

03 Apr '09

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2009-apr.html">Newsletter for April 2009</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=69007">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/442/

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[arch-announce] i686 support not being dropped
by Recent News Updates 02 Apr '09

02 Apr '09

Hi, Arch Linux users, we are pleased to inform you that the i686 architecture is not going to be dropped from Arch Linux. It all was part of an April Fools joke, in which all the developers and the forum moderators played a big part. Interestingly, this joke actually did some good. Some of our users discovered that they were, in fact, running 64-bit processors, and many of them switched to the Arch Linux 64-bit version. We encourage anyone who already switched to keep using the 64-bit version, to continue contributing to the architecture and encourage support from other major software vendors. A prime example of a vendor giving in to the demands of the 64-bit community is Adobe. They've recently added 64-bit Linux support to the flash plug-in, for which we thank them. Sorry for any inconvenience this joke may have caused, but how can we resist a prank on the 1st of April? URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/441/

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[arch-announce] Dropping i686 support
by Recent News Updates 01 Apr '09

01 Apr '09

Recently the developers have been discussing the possibility of adding some additional optimizations to our i686 port to improve multimedia support. This would involve reducing the compatibility with older systems. As some of you may have heard ([1], Google translation [2]), this discussion has resulted in the decision to focus exclusively on the x86_64 port. The overall opinion of the developers is that the x86_64 port is now complete enough to justify this decision and that this is in keeping with Arch's philosophy of supporting current generation hardware. The x86_64 architecture has been available since 2002 (compared to i686 which is from 1995), and we believe most of our i686 users have x86_64 compatible hardware. An official time-line for the deprecation of the i686 port has not been established, but an official announcement needs to be made, as the decision has already been leaked to the ArchLinux-BR community. However, it is likely that major updates (GNOME, KDE, Xorg, etc) will not be built for i686 in the immediate future. Users will still be able to build packages for i686 packages using ABS. As most of the architecture specific patches are for x86_64, this should be relatively pain free. [1] <a href="http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf…">http://groups.google.com/group/archlinux-br/browse_thread/thread/d1b6075adf…</a> [2] <a href="http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2…">http://translate.google.com/translate?prev=_t&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&u=http%3A%2F%2…</a> URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/440/

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[arch-announce] ATI catalyst support dropped
by Recent News Updates 23 Mar '09

23 Mar '09

As many of you may have noticed, support for the catalyst ATI Linux driver, has been moved to the AUR (Arch Linux User Repository). This was partly due to lack of motivation from the maintainer in charge of the package and lack of support from AMD to the general Linux ecosystem. AMD has been great to the Linux community, and they are constantly improving their support, but they have a long way to go in terms of general Linux distributions support. Officially supported options include the xf86-video-ati and the xf86-video-radeonhd drivers. Both are discussed in the Arch Linux Wiki (search for ATI). Both drivers are high quality, and are constantly improving. I suggest the xf86-video-ati driver as it has been updated more frequently than xf86-video-radeonhd. The catalyst and catalyst-utils packages now reside in AUR, where they have been adopted by user “draje”. He has updated the package to the 9.4 version that was given to Ubuntu for the release of xorg-server 1.6. These drivers therefore explicitly depend on xorg-server 1.6 from [testing] -- it will soon be transferred to [extra]. Sorry for any inconveniences this may cause you. We do not want to hold xorg-server 1.6 in testing any longer solely because of a closed source driver. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/439/

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[arch-announce] Bug Day - Saturday 21st March
by Recent News Updates 10 Mar '09

10 Mar '09

On Saturday the 21st of March we will be holding a bug day to combat the ever increasing number of reports in our bug tracker. We will clear outdated reports, fix/implement those that already have patches provided or are trivial to fix/implement and discuss the pros and cons of implementing some feature requests. A rough TODO list that you can add to is on the <a href="http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO">wiki</a> Please join us in #archlinux-bugs on irc.freenode.net during the 21st of March. We live in many different timezones, so hopefully a dev will be present at all times during the day. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/438/

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[arch-announce] Newsletter for March, 2009
by Recent News Updates 06 Mar '09

06 Mar '09

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the <a href="http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/newsletter-2009-mar.html">Newsletter for February 2009</a>. To discuss this newsletter, <a href="http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=510237">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/437/

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[arch-announce] xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing
by Recent News Updates 02 Mar '09

02 Mar '09

The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a lot of workarounds and patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes easier to understand, as even its maintainer has no idea what is happening anymore. When upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these file conflicts on most systems: error: failed to prepare transaction (conflicting files) xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in filesystem xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so exists in filesystem It's safe and advised to overwrite these files. The symlinks were previously created from post_install by the xorg-server and nvidia-utils packages. It is advised to install xorg-server first by using "pacman -Sf xorg-server", after which you can upgrade the rest of your system. This release of xorg-server requires a rebuild of all video and input drivers. Older drivers will fail to load with an ABI mismatch. Drivers in our repositories will receive an update to match the xorg-server ABI. Nvidia has updated their latest drivers with support for this version of xorg-server. AMD does not support xorg-server-1.6 yet in their Catalyst drivers. AMD users are advised to switch to the xf86-video-ati or xf86-video-radeonhd drivers instead, or keep any X.Org related updates on hold via IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. This can be done by putting xorg-server in IgnorePkg in pacman.conf. All other updates should have conflicts set, so it will be clear which additional packages should be added to the IgnorePkg list on your system. Note that there will be no support for older versions of xorg-server when this version moves to extra. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/436/

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[arch-announce] 2009.02 ISO Release Update
by Recent News Updates 18 Feb '09

18 Feb '09

The original archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img USB image was broken, a new image (archlinux-2009.02-2-ftp-i686.img) has been uploaded. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused you. With one image broken, we also had to create new torrents: We now use a single torrent per file again and added more mirrors to the webseeds. All seeders should stop seeding the old torrent and get the new ones. URL: http://www.archlinux.org/news/435/

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