Arch Linux Newsletter for March, 2009 Discussion

kensai · 2009-03-05 13:48:26

http://www.archlinux.org/static/newslet … 9-mar.html

As usual we discuss everything related to the Arch Linux Newsletter here; articles, contributions, and suggestions are welcome and appreciated.

The newsletter has set a new standard for quality with this release, we have tried to deliver a newsletter that is more user/community-centric. Thanks to the awesome team we have now for the newsletter. Guys none of this would have been possible if it weren't for your outstanding support, thanks Alex and Dan. Thanks Ronald for the work you put on this, is really appreciated. And a hurray! for Dusty's proofreading abilities.

Once again, to the community, thanks for your outstanding support. So cool, we are finally starting to deliver on time.

Thanks,

In the name of the Arch Linux Newsletter Team

Eduardo "kensai" Romero

celettu · 2009-03-05 14:09:39

Loved reading the translated review of Arch

"A small gap of the Arch is the file / etc / rc.conf"

jordz · 2009-03-05 15:12:07

Thanks for the newsletter good job

Only a mistake in the announcement:

The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the Newsletter for February 2009. To discuss this newsletter, click here. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, here they are.

kensai · 2009-03-05 15:41:29

@ jordz, FIXED, thanks for reporting.

kcbanner · 2009-03-05 16:15:54

The links in Phisphere's dotfiles are broken for .Xdefaults and a couple other files

pressh · 2009-03-05 16:19:29

kcbanner wrote:

The links in Phisphere's dotfiles are broken for .Xdefaults and a couple other files

I'll contact him and see if we can solve the issue.

jordz · 2009-03-05 16:28:37

kensai wrote:

@ jordz, FIXED, thanks for reporting.

You're welcome.

The link to forum is also wrong:
To discuss this newsletter, click here. = http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=510237 which doesn't excist
Which needs to be this topic

Last edited by jordz (2009-03-05 16:30:34)

pressh · 2009-03-05 16:33:07

jordz wrote:

To discuss this newsletter, click here. = http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=510237 which doesn't excist
Which needs to be this topic

done

Last edited by pressh (2009-03-05 16:46:11)

kensai · 2009-03-05 17:10:08

Nice for the reporting, we always release with some bugs, lol. Well, I'm off to read the newsletter and enjoy it now.

tlaloc · 2009-03-05 17:26:24

There are still some typos:
be our guess > be our guest
wont > won't (or will not)
whos > whose
A nice read, anyway ...

kensai · 2009-03-05 17:32:52

@ tlaloc, done, thanks for reporting.

We will have to open a bugtracker just for the newsletter if we keep like this.

byte · 2009-03-05 17:41:34

Damn those picky zermans!

phisphere · 2009-03-05 18:29:59

pressh wrote:

kcbanner wrote:
The links in Phisphere's dotfiles are broken for .Xdefaults and a couple other files
I'll contact him and see if we can solve the issue.

hmm, it's seems that dotfiles has a problem with / in file name (which is actually quite logical and it's my fault to name those files that way). unfortunately i didn't notice that these links don't work anymore, because they worked when i uploaded those files (and some time after that too).

it's a problem, because i moved to new setup this month and i don't have these exact same config files anymore.
but i've uploaded some config files to my server: http://pub.phisphere.org/dotfiles/

there you can find .Xdefaults with different colours, but same setup. also awesome theme file with layout icons, awesomerc.lua etc.

next time i'll be smarter when naming my config files. (:

best regards,
verner (phisphere)

cdwillis · 2009-03-05 18:32:47

Ha, cool that my thread got mentioned in the newsletter

Allan · 2009-03-05 18:38:34

Good work guys.

Dieter@be · 2009-03-05 19:02:03

Follow the countdown to this epic event with
`watch --interval=1 'bc <<< "1234567890 - $(date +%s)"'`!

that was on february 14th. you could follow it with that code

kensai · 2009-03-05 19:51:29

Dieter@be wrote:

Follow the countdown to this epic event with
`watch --interval=1 'bc <<< "1234567890 - $(date +%s)"'`!
that was on february 14th. you could follow it with that code

LOL, is true, so why is that there? it escapes my mind. I will fix that as well to look like a past sentence.

kcbanner · 2009-03-06 04:32:34

Thanks Phisphere!

maty1206 · 2009-03-06 05:36:15

Thanks guys, I think that every single new letter is better than the older one.

It's a real honor use and be part of this family.

BTW, Maryan Linux was included on March 3th 2009 in DistroWatch, since we are moving to Arch Linux as our new base, we are getting many success. This is couldn't be possible without your work. Thanks again.

Great job!

libby · 2009-03-06 06:10:29

Typos aside, it's a GREAT newsletter! Love the change up of the dev interview questions too... nicely done! Look forward to more....

abhidg · 2009-03-06 15:16:57

"It is my priviledge to present to you ..."
priviledge -> privilege

Last edited by abhidg (2009-03-06 15:17:24)

kensai · 2009-03-06 18:24:33

Thanks for the compliments, well, as you may have noticed we have not much time to proofread it all that well, time is limited to content and we spend like an hour or 2 on proofreading, so your proofreading is appreciated.

Snowman · 2009-03-07 01:45:13

kensai wrote:

Thanks for the compliments, well, as you may have noticed we have not much time to proofread it all that well, time is limited to content and we spend like an hour or 2 on proofreading, so your proofreading is appreciated.

You should pass the newsletter in a spell checker. It will only take a few minutes and will find all these typos and spelling mistakes.

Dusty · 2009-03-07 01:56:20

I have aspell enabled in vim -- most of those typos were correctly spelled words that were supposed to be different words.

Schaffer · 2009-03-07 02:08:25

Bugged! But still the best!

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