Arch Linux Newsletter May 2009 - Discussion

pressh · 2009-05-05 17:30:09

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

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

The newsletter sets a new standard for quality with every release, we try to deliver a newsletter that is more user/community-centric. All this is possible thanks to the awesome team we have for the newsletter.

Special thanks to the community, for giving us the motivation to continue doing this.

Thanks,

In the name of the Arch Linux Newsletter Team,

Ronald van Haren

kensai · 2009-05-05 17:53:04

Nice job man, an excellent newsletter, I enjoyed reading it myself, is the first time since I took the leadership of the newsletter that I have had the pleasure of reading the final only and after it was released to the users.

Sorry guys, I did not have time this month to do anything for the newsletter, but just send recommendations of things to post to Ronald, but as you see, Ronald handled everything very well.

Thanks again guys.

Ghost1227 · 2009-05-05 18:17:56

See Kensai? Even in your absence we are able to pull through... you were missed though!

X/ax · 2009-05-05 20:00:22

Might I ask for a layout which doesn't scale with screen width? It's quite long lines here...

PS: Nice stuff, still reading through it though. I enjoyed reading about go-openoffice, didn't know about it, currently downloading to test

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pressh · 2009-05-05 20:35:45

X/ax wrote:

Might I ask for a layout which doesn't scale with screen width? It's quite long lines here...

setting a maximum width could be a good idea. We'll take it into account and see if we can come up with something for the next newsletter.

Last edited by pressh (2009-05-05 20:36:03)

Allan · 2009-05-05 20:41:55

Go job guys!

You probably want to adjust the vi/vim/gvim news now that a typo has been fixed.

Maki · 2009-05-05 21:20:29

Xyne started using arch from july ?, pretty good stuff comes from a n00b

Ghost1227 · 2009-05-05 21:23:53

Maki wrote:

Xyne started using arch from july ?, pretty good stuff comes from a n00b

that's what I said...

Anonymo · 2009-05-05 22:22:47

Alright, the Arch Review I found was used!!!

pressh · 2009-05-05 22:44:39

Allan wrote:

You probably want to adjust the vi/vim/gvim news now that a typo has been fixed.

done

von_Wanderlust · 2009-05-06 01:08:58

Thank you all for another great newsletter.

I must say, I always appreciate the Tips and Tricks section.

Cheers,
vW

Shunpike · 2009-05-06 07:53:02

There's a typo in the Expand your knowledge section : "MulitTail" should be "MultiTail"
Great job once again guys ;-)

pressh · 2009-05-06 08:00:16

Shunpike wrote:

There's a typo in the Expand your knowledge section : "MulitTail" should be "MultiTail"
Great job once again guys ;-)

thanks for your kind words. the typo is fixed now.

siu4coders · 2009-05-06 08:08:05

The link "listen to their hard drives" in the fun section is broken if the user is not logged in the forum.

Thank you for the newsletter and the tips!

pressh · 2009-05-06 08:13:17

siu4coders wrote:

The link "listen to their hard drives" in the fun section is broken if the user is not logged in the forum.
Thank you for the newsletter and the tips!

yeah it is a known 'problem'. I have yet to find a way to tell that those links to offtopic are only available if you're logged in to the forums without getting in the readers way. I should give it some more thought but proposals on this are very welcome.

KimTjik · 2009-05-06 08:38:21

Thanks for your hard work!

It's a good collection of news while at the same time I learn some new stuff.

zenlord · 2009-05-06 09:22:25

The Arch newsletter is always something nice to put away my work for and just read through it.

Thanks for your work and for seamlessly taking over whenever a member of the team temporarily lacks time...

About iotop: this might be what I'm looking for to monitor my HD usage. The cpu and ram on my laptop never seem to get fully stressed and yet a simple pacman -Sy takes 1.5 minutes. Seems like a very useful tool to add to my conky scripts...

Zl.

Snowman · 2009-05-06 19:29:17

pressh wrote:

siu4coders wrote:
The link "listen to their hard drives" in the fun section is broken if the user is not logged in the forum.
Thank you for the newsletter and the tips!
yeah it is a known 'problem'. I have yet to find a way to tell that those links to offtopic are only available if you're logged in to the forums without getting in the readers way. I should give it some more thought but proposals on this are very welcome.

You can use a footnote.

haxit · 2009-05-06 19:49:28

Great read! I love the first quote in the humor section

pressh · 2009-05-06 19:59:27

Snowman wrote:

pressh wrote:
siu4coders wrote:
The link "listen to their hard drives" in the fun section is broken if the user is not logged in the forum.
Thank you for the newsletter and the tips!
yeah it is a known 'problem'. I have yet to find a way to tell that those links to offtopic are only available if you're logged in to the forums without getting in the readers way. I should give it some more thought but proposals on this are very welcome.
You can use a footnote.

mmm yeah, that is probably the best way. Let's see if I can find some time soon to implement it in the template I use so I don't forget about it.

rson451 · 2009-05-06 20:24:26

pressh wrote:

X/ax wrote:
Might I ask for a layout which doesn't scale with screen width? It's quite long lines here...
setting a maximum width could be a good idea. We'll take it into account and see if we can come up with something for the next newsletter.

Please make that optional. The current layout works well with the look and feel of the main site.

Nice work again gentlemen.

pressh · 2009-05-06 20:43:27

rson451 wrote:

pressh wrote:
X/ax wrote:
Might I ask for a layout which doesn't scale with screen width? It's quite long lines here...
setting a maximum width could be a good idea. We'll take it into account and see if we can come up with something for the next newsletter.
Please make that optional. The current layout works well with the look and feel of the main site.
Nice work again gentlemen.

as I said we'll discuss it for the next newsletter. AFAIK making a layout optional is not possible with plain html so in the end we probably have to choose between the two

rson451 · 2009-05-06 20:51:41

pressh wrote:

plain html

Ah yes, I didn't think about that. I can always just disable the stylesheet.

kgas · 2009-05-07 15:30:10

Hello pressh and kensai, it is nice to go thro' the new letter. I like the Tips and Tricks part which will help to dig back the things

correction required part: Under Expand your Knowledge : it should be itop and not ltop

pressh · 2009-05-07 17:14:22

kgas wrote:

Hello pressh and kensai, it is nice to go thro' the new letter. I like the Tips and Tricks part which will help to dig back the things
correction required part: Under Expand your Knowledge : it should be itop and not ltop

I think is is a written as a capital i in the newsletter if I'm not mistaken, so that should be correct.

glad you like the newsletter

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