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neotuli

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From: London, UK

Registered: 2004-07-06

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2008.06 Release

For those of you that don't read the front page news
http://archlinux.org/news/398/

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Fatsobob

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From: Colorado

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 126

Re: 2008.06 Release

Nice, I am gonna have to seed the iso for a while and burn a new CD

daf666

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Registered: 2007-04-08

Posts: 470

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Re: 2008.06 Release

Good news!
BTW, the USB image kicks ass!, thanx.

Last edited by daf666 (2008-06-24 20:40:12)

ST.x

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From: Sydney, Australia

Registered: 2008-01-25

Posts: 363

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Re: 2008.06 Release

Awesome timing

Last edited by ST.x (2008-06-24 20:40:56)

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Myav

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Registered: 2007-05-07

Posts: 58

Re: 2008.06 Release

Yippee, we can use an usb stick to install Arch!

neotuli and all developers, thanks for your work!

bluesurfer

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From: Regensburg, Germany

Registered: 2004-08-29

Posts: 29

Re: 2008.06 Release

Yeah, finally a new install CD.

Unfortunately I'm not able to login neither with login name "root" nor with "arch". "Login incorrect" is displayed 4 times and then I'm back at the login. I had no possibility to enter a password.

Bestiapeluda

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From: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Registered: 2007-10-16

Posts: 181

Re: 2008.06 Release

If it is an official release, will it be announced in Distrowatch ?

theringmaster

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From: Air Force

Registered: 2007-07-16

Posts: 581

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Re: 2008.06 Release

one complaint would be that the installer won't let you move on unless you pick something from base-devel and also you can't get out of some of the utilities without rebooting (or resetting in virtualbox). Most notably the space invaders game and the cputest thing.

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meandean

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 67

Re: 2008.06 Release

would like to see zsync implemented to update older ISOs

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dienadel

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Registered: 2005-12-23

Posts: 179

Re: 2008.06 Release

- 'base' category is always installed

want

I supose that exists the posibility of selecting the pkg's i want in base, not  that ALL BASE PKG'S are installed.

dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: 2008.06 Release

http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10752

vote here

Thanks for the ISOs

Last edited by dolby (2008-06-24 21:17:50)

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meandean

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 67

Re: 2008.06 Release

what all does 'base' category include?

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neotuli

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Re: 2008.06 Release

would like to see zsync implemented to update older ISOs

See my sig?

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meandean

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 67

Re: 2008.06 Release

See my sig?

How do I submit something to the suggestion box?

Give me a shell account to the build server and I will whip up some zsync files right quick. Certainly I do not need to download every single ISO, create the zsync and then upload them....where....

Last edited by meandean (2008-06-24 21:32:50)

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neotuli

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From: London, UK

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Re: 2008.06 Release

Actually, I researched the zsync option just now and did some test runs. At this time it appears that the bandwidth savings is quite minimal (on the magnitude of less than 1%) for most of the images. The one notable exception was the core ISOs, for which the savings was around 20%. I don't think 2 out of 8 where it actually makes a difference justifies it.

That said, if you want the zsync files I still have them around, feel free to host them somewhere if you think it makes a difference.

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ibendiben

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Registered: 2007-10-10

Posts: 519

Re: 2008.06 Release

If you need a patch to make the installer select all base packages by default but enabling the user to deselect packages from the install list in dialog, tell me... ;P

great work otherwise!

If I find something I'll let you know.

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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: 2008.06 Release

It seems that all the other 3 selectable options other than BASE are there.... right?

I hit space bar.... which asterisks the BASE selection then the next page is all the packages.... many of which as NOT selected..

I'm guessing these are the packages from the other 3 optional sections from the last ISO release.... libs, dev etc...

I've just selected all of them manually and will be installing ALL.

??

NOTE: I saw a BGPG error ....anyone who what that means...

Last edited by yvonney (2008-06-24 23:21:16)

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: 2008.06 Release

Seeding............

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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

Posts: 671

Re: 2008.06 Release

There's an updated ISO coming up?

meandean

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Registered: 2008-06-24

Posts: 67

Re: 2008.06 Release

At this time it appears that the bandwidth savings is quite minimal

it does seem less than I expected...

The one notable exception was the core ISOs, for which the savings was around 20%

from 2008.4-rc to 2008.6 core savings was 28%, once again, not as much as I expected

Savings would probably be significant if a user had the ftp ISO and decided they wanted the core ISO.....and vice versa.

Thanks for considering it!

Last edited by meandean (2008-06-24 23:32:07)

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Allan

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From: Brisbane, AU

Registered: 2007-06-09

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Re: 2008.06 Release

There's an updated ISO coming up?

Huh?  Never satisfied...

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yvonney

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Registered: 2008-06-11

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Re: 2008.06 Release

TOO satisfied!!!

Although just as I was checking back I realized... oops.... my getting confused and then writing that could be understandably taken WAY the wrong way..  I got confused with the "seeding now... "

.... way too crazilyARCH-ING-IT here right now)

All good fun though right! :--)

I am So So So loving ARCH....!
um, really!

sorry to make you type un-necessarily....

truly.

I could punish myself with a rpm distro I guess!

Last edited by yvonney (2008-06-25 00:29:15)

sm4tik

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From: Finland, Jyväskylä

Registered: 2006-11-05

Posts: 248

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Re: 2008.06 Release

Didn't try the installation (I'm in no need at the moment) but booted from USB stick just out of curiosity to see if it works and.. couldn't be happier! It's the first "image to stick" which has worked without any "trying to figure out why it just doesn't work though I followed the instructions word by word". Thanks for this one, I only wish it had been around the first time I installed arch on my tp-x23 without cd-drive

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: 2008.06 Release

Simo! km is back! I could kiss you!! Our Nordic users will be lighting candles around the world tonight!
Good decision!

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meandean

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Registered: 2008-06-24

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Re: 2008.06 Release

I could punish myself with a rpm distro I guess!

cruel and unusual to be sure...

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