[arch-releng] Fw: [arch-dev-public] Arch Linux release in the press

Grigorios Bouzakis grbzks at gmail.com
Tue Feb 17 16:09:44 EST 2009


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 10:02:24PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:23:00 +0200
> Grigorios Bouzakis <grbzks at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 05:12:33PM +0100, Dieter Plaetinck wrote:
> > > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 10:03:51 -0600
> > > Aaron Griffin <aaronmgriffin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 9:54 AM, Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com>
> > > > wrote:
> > > > > On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 09:44:45AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > > >> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 7:12 AM, Dieter Plaetinck
> > > > >> <dieter at plaetinck.be> wrote:
> > > > >> > On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:08:49 +0100
> > > > >> > Thomas Bächler <thomas at archlinux.org> wrote:
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >> Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
> > > > >> >> > Cool stuff.
> > > > >> >> > Aren't we the first distro to officially release images
> > > > >> >> > with 2.6.28/ext4 et al ?
> > > > >> >> >
> > > > >> >> > Dieter
> > > > >> >>
> > > > >> >> I think we are, if you don't count alpha or beta releases
> > > > >> >> (Fedora and Ubuntu have stuff in development and already
> > > > >> >> released images afaik). One might argue that Arch is not
> > > > >> >> "stable" and doesn't count
> > > > >> >>
> > > > >> > You funny boy, Arch is stable.
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > (definitely more stable then ubuntu ;-)
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> >> Anyway, IMO it is the right time to shout "FIRST!".
> > > > >> >>
> > > > >> >
> > > > >> > Right on! First!
> > > > >>
> > > > >> I thought Ubuntu actually released theirs with ext4 support.
> > > > >> But hah, we win! :)
> > > > >
> > > > > Arch is freaking ground breaking!
> > > > 
> > > > KDE 4.2, ext4, what's next? The moon?
> > > 
> > > Good point. let's put also the moon in
> > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/DeveloperWiki, section "World
> > > Domination"
> > > 
> > > Dieter
> > 
> > Simo is already getting close
> > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/User:Neotuli :)
> > 
> 
> Cool.. LWN too.
> http://lwn.net/Articles/319734/rss
> 
> It's so cool to see phrases that you wrote yourself appear on several
> bigger news sites :)

OSNews also did in the afternoon
http://osnews.com/story/20995/ArchLinux_2009_02_Released


-- 
Greg


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