Arch Linux Newsletter July 2009 - Discussion

kensai · 2009-07-02 12:49:35

http://www.archlinux.org/static/newslet … -july.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,

Eduardo Romero

chair · 2009-07-03 07:23:54

KDE 4.3 will have split packages!?!?

AWESOME

kensai · 2009-07-03 10:22:55

@chair, yeah, very exciting, as this is a wanted feature.

@xyne, and I was starting to think this newsletter had no errors well... fixed, thanks

Xyne · 2009-07-03 10:24:01

kensai wrote:

@chair, yeah, very exciting, as this is a wanted feature.
@xyne, and I was starting to think this newsletter had no errors well... fixed, thanks

Just get a mod to delete the comments in this thread and we can pretend that it never happened.

Allan · 2009-07-03 10:41:16

Um.... what comment?

tlaloc · 2009-07-03 11:28:53

kensai wrote:

@xyne, and I was starting to think this newsletter had no errors well... fixed, thanks

So I really feel bad when pointing this out, but "cause" should read "caused". I don't think that I have produced anything entirely free of errors in my life, though ...

iphitus · 2009-07-03 12:00:48

Awesome stuff kensai & team.

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kensai · 2009-07-03 12:28:19

@xyne beware everytime you say mod, you trigger allan to the thread
@allan, you are always in the lookout
@tlaloc, yeah I know, is impossible to produce something error free, thanks for pointing the cause of the error in caused.
@iphitus, yay!!! thanks

Well, I really have to make a list of the developers I have interviewed, is getting hard to know who I have lately.

Guys, if there is any suggestion for a section you would like to see in the newsletter, please comment here, I would gladly see if I can make it happen. If you want to be the one doing that section you are welcome as well.

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Xyne · 2009-07-04 00:18:43

Allan wrote:

Um.... what comment?

You basta...

Hmm, maybe not such a good idea.

greenfish · 2009-07-04 23:11:06

Thank You so much, love reading these newsletters

kensai · 2009-07-05 15:35:08

greenfish wrote:

Thank You so much, love reading these newsletters

thank you for reading... exiting things are to come for the newsletter soon, so you will enjoy them even more!

Sakurina · 2009-07-07 19:54:43

Great newsletter as usual; just noticed what appears to be a typo in the static kernel howto:

# cp arch/$ARCH/boot/bzImage /bot/vmlinuz-rdless

should probably say

# cp arch/$ARCH/boot/bzImage /boot/vmlinuz-rdless

greenfish · 2009-07-07 19:57:17

kensai wrote:

greenfish wrote:
Thank You so much, love reading these newsletters
thank you for reading... exiting things are to come for the newsletter soon, so you will enjoy them even more!

Awesome :D

kensai · 2009-07-07 19:59:57

@Sakurina, Thanks, fixed.

my0pic · 2009-07-08 06:41:44

Just caught up with the newsletter and again a great read. Thanks to everyone involved for their efforts

dduong · 2009-07-08 23:52:47

Another awesome newsletter!

jwcxz · 2009-07-11 05:51:14

Excellent newsletter as always! I always love to read them.

Question about splitting up KDE 4.3: how does upgrading from 4.2 work? Will I just have the upgrade automatically select all of the split packages that correspond to the full packages that I had installed for 4.2 and then remove the 4.3 packages that I don't intend on using anymore? Or is the process more complicated than that?

kensai · 2009-07-11 11:53:46

jwcxz wrote:

Excellent newsletter as always! I always love to read them.
Question about splitting up KDE 4.3: how does upgrading from 4.2 work? Will I just have the upgrade automatically select all of the split packages that correspond to the full packages that I had installed for 4.2 and then remove the 4.3 packages that I don't intend on using anymore? Or is the process more complicated than that?

Thanks,

Well, the process for me was very smooth, since Pierre did an awesome job at providing meta pakcages, that is if you want the whole thing still. If you don't want the whole KDE, well, there will be some manual intervention to do, but I am sure that Pierre will provide good documentation for this as he always does. There are some bugs with pacman and splited packages, but hopefully will be sorted out by the time.

baddog144 · 2009-07-23 07:32:19

First newsletter I've read. Enjoyed it very much. Keep them coming

Aprz · 2009-07-23 09:27:39

Hm, I knew that files could still be recovered after they are deleted, but didn't know why or how to recover them. Thought that lsof thing was neat (under Expand Your Knowledge). I'd recommend that if you don't have the time to read the entire news letter to at least read that. Sounds useful. I know people who have made this mistake before!

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bart9h · 2009-07-28 13:45:34

Here, here! The RSS title is *bad*.

"Recent News Updates"? C'mon! How am I supposed to identify it with the subject? It's as bad as "<Enter your RSS Title Here>".
Please put some real title there. K?Tnks.

jgomo3 · 2009-09-02 16:04:37

[1] 404 - Page Not Found

That link is here[2] and here[3].

In [3] is "other news letters" and is intuitive to erase the "newsletter-2009-july.html" from [3] to obtain [1]

[1] http://www.archlinux.org/static/newsletters/
[2] http://www.archlinux.org/news/453/
[3] http://www.archlinux.org/static/newslet … -july.html

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