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

[Dieter Plaetinck]

On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 10:57:32 -0500
Loui Chang <louipc.ist at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 04:11:32PM +0100, Gerhard Brauer wrote:
> > It's fine to see that the ISO release get so many attention.
> > Searching with "Arch Linux 2009.02" founds a lot of announces
> > meanwhile. Either the text of our announce news or a modified. What
> > i see often in this news is: Arch 2009.02 released. The same
> > "mistake" what Aaron mentioned: It's not clear for the news writers
> > that we have a rolling release and that 2009.02 is "only" a
> > snapshot for new installations.
> > So we should - in the announces for the next iso release - make a
> > bigger hint on this, like we do it on the download page on
> > archlinux.org. Somewhat like "For new installations only.
> > An Arch Linux system can always be updated with `pacman -Syu`"
> > 
> > So we should make this a bigger part in the next news IMHO.
> 
> Yeah that could be made more explicit on the Download page too.
> 

Good point Gerhard about being more clear in the news.
Could someone with priviliges do a little update of the news item?

Though I find it is already clear enough on the download page.
The first thing you see on the page is :
"For new installations only.
An Arch Linux system can always be updated with `pacman -Syu`"

Dieter