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Re: [arch-general] Preferred Laptops
by Sherry Howell 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

> Hello fello archers.. > > I've recently been going through a bit of a rough patch with my laptop > usage.. I had a 15" macbook pro (dual booted with arch linux), which I > recently sold because I thought it was ugly, the mouse didn't work very > well, and frankly I was trying to de-appletize myself :).. > > I just received my refurbished dell studio 14z and got arch up and running > on it, but I can't decide if I like it or not.. I haven't gotten used to > the mouse yet. The resolution is less than desirable. (13 something x 7 > something). And there isn't a latch on the lid.. but I do like the size, > aesthetics, weight, and the keyboard feels nice.. > > So I'm asking you, if you have a laptop, what kind is it? Does arch run > pretty well on it (synaptics, sleep/wake, etc.)? What window manager do you > think works best with the touchpad (I'm using gnome now)? > > Any input would be appreciated. > > ------------------------------ > -Eric Jacobs I've dumped OSX and am happily running arch on my macbook 4.1. I'm not suggesting you go spend the money on one, but if you did, you'd be very happy with it. Once I figured out how to get past the EFI boot system, the only thing I've had issues with at all is getting lirc to work correctly, and I can't for the life of me figure out why. Tried everything! But, wireless works excellent - broadcom and all. The synaptics simply needed a little tweaking using the instructions gleaned from the ubuntu forum. Sleep and wake worked out of the box. Every window manager I've tried worked great with the touchpad. I used kde 4 for a while, but have settled finally on xfce because it reminds me more of my first linux machine (fvwm on an old pb 486). Plus it's a lot of fun hearing "Oh, how cool, you've got a macbook -- what the heck is that?!?" --Sherry Howell

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Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux Magazine
by Daniel J Griffiths 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Loui Chang wrote: > Hey guys. I'm just curious. What's going on with the magazine? > Is there any intent to revive it? > > I know that I'd look forward to news/forum summaries at least if there > isn't time for all the other stuff. > > Cheers. > > I received the above email from Loui on the 31st and have been putting a good deal of thought into the current magazine/newsletter situation. As many of you know, Kensai recently moved and got married and I recently moved and have been trying to find a job. Shortly before receiving this email, Kensai and I had discussed the issue, but we didn't come to any real decisions. Hence, I'm sending my thoughts to the community and letting you in on the discussion. One of the possibilities that was brought up was separating the newsletter and magazine, much as it was when I first started AUM. I do not believe this is a good course of action due to one of the main reasons for the merger: the licensing rights to the Arch name and logo. While the magazine did well on its own, I simply can't afford to maintain the domain and server for it without help from the community, but I can't accept financial contributions for said project as long as it is using Arch branding. On the other hand, leaving it the way it is is proving difficult. I don't know Kensai's current situation, but I'm seeing less and less of him online which makes submission of any completed magazine/newsletter issues difficult as he is the only one with upload rights to the server currently on staff. My situation has settled down enough that I am now able to dedicate the time necessary to continue production of the magazine/newsletter as I used to. In fact, I have a good bit of content ready for the next release, whenever that becomes possible. I would like to see the magazine/newsletter make a comeback to where we were when we left off and then some. I want to see more community contributions, writers, I'd like to get the Schwag report back (Dusty, that's you if you're still up to it), etc. This is a big project that has greatly benefited our community and I hate to see it in it's current state. Please let me know what you all think so that we can expedite the release of another issue! @Kensai: Let me know what your current situation is (I know how being a newlywed is, been there a few times now...), and either way, best of luck (hopefully your luck is better than my first attempt was).

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[arch-general] google wave
by Jonathan Brown 04 Nov '09

04 Nov '09

Hi all, I know this is off-topic, but does anyone have a google wave invite that they just don't know who to give to? :) If so, I'm a bit desparate to try it out! Would be much appreciated and I would return the favor to others! jbssfl(a)gmail.com --Jon

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Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th
by Evangelos Foutras 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

(I couldn't reply to arch-dev-public, so I'm forwarding my message to arch-general.) -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: [arch-dev-public] Vacation Nov 7th - 14th Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 20:33:26 +0200 From: Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis(a)gmail.com> To: Public mailing list for Arch Linux development <arch-dev-public(a)archlinux.org> References: <d64a48980911020949v35fc468cq8dd10afa9efe7f06(a)mail.gmail.com> <4AEF1DEA.5080902(a)archlinux.org> Thomas Bächler wrote: > Aaron Griffin schrieb: >> But, if you need anything, I'm fairly certain you guys can handle it. >> All of you doing admin type work seem competent enough to deal with >> anything that comes up, so I will not have anything to worry about. > > Anything except the current hard drive failure, but I guess you > settled the funds issue already today. Have a nice week. Does this mean that RAID 1 is used and one of the two drives failed? :) Also, is there a page describing the current Arch server(s) setup? I remember reading something about Xen being used and I'd be interested in knowing more. I understand this information is only useful to the admins, but I'm curious.

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[arch-general] Encrypting remote system
by Karol Babioch 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi, I'm wondering whether there is a possibility to encrypt a remote system using Arch Linux? I have installed Arch on a remote server, and don't like the idea that anyone with physical access to my system has access to my data. So is there something I can do about it? Using dm-crypt (with luks) doesn't work at all, as I can't input the passphrase when I reboot my system, the technician would really hate me if I ask them to attach a remote console each time I reboot my system. So is there anything I can do? -- Best regards, Karol Babioch <karol(a)babioch.de>

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[arch-general] libtorrent-rasterbar
by Damien Churchill 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I've attached an updated PKGBUILD (just a simple version and md5sum update) for the libtorrent-rasterbar package. The upcoming Deluge 1.2 release depends on libtorrent-rasterbar >= 0.14.5 so I thought I'd assist a little there. Damien

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[arch-general] editors graphic, video new (to archlinux) encoder decoder theora
by andrew james 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

news at 2009 09 http://theora.org/news/ the library encoder decoder theora version 1.1 was rewritten. It is "largely an improvement to the Theora encoder <http://hacks.mozilla.org/2009/09/theora-1-1-released/>" this library is old in the repository arch also, ffmpeg2theora, "A simple converter to create Ogg Theora files", is a binary that (I know slightly) depends to the library is old in the repository arch. ffmpeg2theora-0.25 'use new libtheora 1.1' http://v2v.cc/~j/ffmpeg2theora/index.html I am inexperienced with package management, for example the maintainers may know a conflicts or insecurity that is the reason to serve the old. However, this news is relevant. I will continue to act as a reporter to improve the quality of our community. andrew

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[arch-general] Nouveau doesn't get loaded without config file?
by Magnus Therning 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

I had some problems with my Xorg nv driver this morning, and people suggested I switch to the nouveau driver instead. When trying it X didn't seem to notice that it's available. Do I really need to have an X configuration file in order to use it? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus＠therning．org http://therning.org/magnus identi.ca|twitter: magthe

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[arch-general] [signoff] mdadm-3.1-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. One thing i observed, when using a custom /etc/mdadm.conf file our rc.sysinit will run mdadm --assemble --scan, which will always give exit code 2, due to devices busy. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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[arch-general] [signoff] dmraid-1.0.0.rc16-1
by Tobias Powalowski 02 Nov '09

02 Nov '09

Hi bump to latest version, please signoff. Due to lack of hardware also users can signoff. Please update and recreate your initcpio after upgrading. Thanks. greetings tpowa -- Tobias Powalowski Archlinux Developer & Package Maintainer (tpowa) http://www.archlinux.org tpowa(a)archlinux.org

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