fidzu : Arch Linux

In a proper nerd fashion I recorded short video of my computer booting and starting OpenOffice Calc and Chromium.

30 Jul 2010 7:49am GMT

ChangeLog - removed bash_completion from .bashrc and /etc/bash.bashrc - added seahorse and seahorse-plugins for nautilus - update initscripts to 2010.07-1 - added "pidgin otr" to pidgin - added cairo-dock - openbox menu "google chrome" -> "chromium" - (deleted firefox history) - removed archrepo.net from repository - updated yaourt.rc - removed graphical syslinux (boot [...]

29 Jul 2010 4:54pm GMT

Hello bbs users,

the forums have been updated to FluxBB 1.4.1 (the previous used version was 1.2). For a list of upstream changes see http://fluxbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4296 and http://fluxbb.org/forums/viewtopic.php?id=4416

A new theme based on the Air style was created. This will hopefully be more user friendly and less distracting. In general our changes/theme should be more clean and easier to maintain. Last but not least a new trap for spam bots was added. (they same we use for MediaWiki)

Enjoy your new home and let me know if there are any problems.

Greetings,

Pierre

29 Jul 2010 3:45pm GMT

Hey guys,

I just updated MediaWiki to 1.16.0. For an upstream changelog see http://projects.archlinux.org/vhosts/wi … EASE-NOTES

And yes, the colors were altered a little bit due to your feedback. (some might still hate it but its impossible to make it optimal for all) However feedback is still welcome.

Btw: What do you guys think about the new vector theme WikiPedia uses on their sites now? Is it worth to adapt it here or should we stay with the current monobook theme.

I am also working on an update for the forums which should happen very soon (like in today? ;-)).

29 Jul 2010 8:59am GMT

Allan McRae wrote:

The update of our forum software to FluxBB 1.4 is currently in progress and may take a few more hours. In the meantime, enjoy this video of funny cats.

Update: The forums are back online

29 Jul 2010 4:00am GMT

I opened my door today to a package I wasn't expecting, and thanks to the greatful Arch user that send me book number two from my Amazon Wishlist. The first one came nearly two years ago from an anonymous donor. This time I received The Memory Book, and although I know who donated it, I don't want to put there name up here unless they let me know its OK.

Thanks! Hopefully I'll start learning to remember things better as I have not been doing a great job of that lately...

28 Jul 2010 11:07pm GMT

In case anyone is interested, here is a breakdown of the income and expenses for ArchCon2010: Total Income: $2630.00 Total Expenditures: $2518.68 Income: $1630.00 in registration fees $1000.00 donation funding from the Arch Linux Project Expenses: $49.15 in Paypal fees $1621.38 for Rooms and Catering $388.90 for T-shirts and bags $57.60 for UPS brokerage fee [...]

28 Jul 2010 3:38pm GMT

Hi arKers, how are you? About 4 months from my last post…University, work and summer give you no more time to relax and write something on your personal blog. Ok, come to the point. Yesterday I read a bad bad news on the net: KBluetooth is dead - Oh s**t! But reading that post I [...]

28 Jul 2010 7:18am GMT

All videos of archcon talks have been posted to http://archlinux.ca/archcon2010/videos/ Enjoy!

26 Jul 2010 9:27pm GMT

Yesterday I have uploaded the new mono 2.6.7 release for Arch Linux to our repos. New features which was added are (from the Mono release notes): MVC2 is now included Latest versions of: Soft Debugger Mono's xbuild tool LINQ to SQL binding WCF client and server, the subset exposed by Silverlight 2.0 LLVM [...]

26 Jul 2010 8:04am GMT

I returned home from ArchCon 2010 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada earlier this afternoon, and I'm glad I had the chance to attend and speak at the conference. Yes, it was not the world's largest Linux conference by any means, but it was a great size for the first time doing this and I'm looking forward to future gatherings of Arch Linux users and developers in the same room.

Dusty already did a great writeup of some of the happenings of the weekend, so definitely give that a read if you haven't already. Yes, plenty of beer was consumed, but we had a great excuse to do so and I can add three more people to the "Arch Developers I've Drank With" list: Dieter, Jason, and Kevin.

I delivered two presentations, and you can view the slides and video recordings for both. Of course, you should check out as many of them as possible as we all had some great and informative talks. They can all be found from the ArchCon 2010 website.

• Arch Linux Projects - Slides - Video Part One, Two, Three, Four
• Hacking Pacman - Slides - Video Not Available

Thanks to everyone who organized things, thanks to all of my fellow presenters, and thanks to all of the attendees - I'm glad things went extremely well over the weekend. Additionally, it is always great to put some names and faces together and I was definitely able to do that this weekend. I also hope my talks (and those of others) not only encourage people to chip in and help with development and direction, but let them know just how easy it is to do so.

25 Jul 2010 10:25pm GMT

Changes since last release: * Using kernel26-zen now. More common kernel modules are build into the image to save on space. I'm also using BFS scheduler. It maybe a lot faster on file transfer since i can copy a 643mb iso image in 2 seconds vs 1+ min. * The base folder is now under [...]

25 Jul 2010 9:05pm GMT

DStein has posted some videos from archcon here: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=101587 In addition, I've started uploading videos here: http://archlinux.ca/archcon2010/videos/ It's going to take a while to get them all posted, so you'll have to wait for them to trickle in over the next week or so. Hopefully some people will find them interesting, and will be motivated [...]

25 Jul 2010 7:05pm GMT

I don't normally write public journal-like entries, but I'd like to describe my experience at ArchCon as an advertisement to attract more attendees next year! As co-organizer of the conference, I felt a lot of pressure for it to go well. People had paid registration fees to attend, as well as their travel arrangements and [...]

25 Jul 2010 4:00pm GMT

According to bootchart my new machines boot time is now 10s. Proof of it can be found below. Ofcourse, my machine is quite powerful and this result would be more impressive with lesser specification. But this result without much of extra work is quite nice in my opinion.

25 Jul 2010 3:07pm GMT

Archcon 2010 can safely be called a success. There were some hiccups, of course (Thanks Jason, for the ad hoc wireless network), but overall, I think most attendees were satisfied, and I hope everyone had as good a time as I did. Thank you, everyone for presenting or attending. A conference is only as good [...]

25 Jul 2010 12:02pm GMT