If you follow Arch Planet, you may have already heard the news that we are celebrating a decade of existence, with the release of 0.1 Homer on March 11, 2002. If you haven't already, grab some birthday cake and head over to Arch Planet to read several developers chronologies and wonderful words of praise for Arch Linux. There is also a brief article from The H Open Source as well as discussion on Reddit. With good fortune and a little luck, hopefully we'll be around to celebrate another 10 years!
As a way to see how far we've come, we've put together a yearly snapshot of the home page thanks to our friends at the Wayback Machine. Please don't judge our former (lack of) design too harshly! For your viewing pleasure, the home page as it existed in 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011.
From the glibc-2.15-5 package, the minimum required kernel version will
be increased from 2.6.27 to 2.6.32. This reflects the oldest kernel
version still receiving updates upstream.
Recent releases of libpng and libtiff have required a rebuild of all
packages that depend on them; these have just been moved from [testing]
to the main repos. As usual, remember to fully update your system and
check your unofficial packages (especially the cairo-* packages from
AUR) for required rebuilds.
The update might output messages similar to:
g_module_open() failed for /usr/lib/gdk-pixbuf-2.0/2.10.0/loaders/libpixbufloader-svg.so:
libpng14.so.14: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory
These can be safely ignored if you use our official cairo package;
otherwise you may need to ...
The FOSDEM conference takes place on 4/5 February in Brussels, Belgium and our attendance this year is bigger than ever.
On the list of Archers coming we find developers Роман Кирилич (Roman Kyrylych), Tom Gundersen, Thomas Bächler, Jan Steffens, Pierre Schmitz and myself.
We're putting together meetups on Friday afternoon, evening and Saturday evening. Our program is not definitive yet, so to stay up to date (or make suggestions) check the wiki page or the meetups thread on the arch-events mailing list.
Hope to see you there!
With module-init-tools being declared a dead project by its current maintainer, a new project has stepped up to take its place: kmod. This is intended to be a drop-in replacement, though deprecated functionality in module-init-tools has not been reimplemented.
If, upon upgrade, pacman moves /etc/modprobe.d/modprobe.conf to a .pacsave, you should move it back. This file, and any other config read by module-init-tools, is still read by kmod. However, the kmod package will no longer include a blank config file. You'll find the same (if not more) documentation in the manpages and --help output for the ...
