Arch Linux

Infrastructual changes before the end of the year

Hello everybody, we silently introduced the rotation of ftp.archlinuxppc.org on a DNS level. It should in theory not cause any problems but as always, don't hesitate to let us know if you end up having problems. Rsync will also change quite a bit. Please refrain from using archlinuxppc.org:: directly and instead the rotation on rsync.archlinuxppc.org. Additionally we will restrict access ...

Xfce 4.3.3, GNOME 2.24 and more

Thanks to DaNiMoTh we now can offer you the latest releases of both Xfce and GNOME. Get it while it's still hot and crispy! No major issues while installing GNOME are known, except that during upgrade procedures you will probably see a few gconf warnings which we verified are safe to be ignored.

New Developer

Everybody please give a warm welcome to our newest addition to the development team: DaNiMoTh. He'll be giving us a hand from now on.

KDE 3.5.10 and why other major upgrades aren't there yet

Hey All, we're currently working on to provide the - probably - last maintainence release for the KDE 3.5.x series. So why has KDE 4.1.x not made it in you ask? Well, if you have tried the preview packages mentioned in an earlier newsitem you most probably noticed major issues with image rendering along with other serious issues. One by ...

Dropping madwifi

We decided to drop madwifi in favor of ath5k and ath9k which are included in our kernel since 2.6.25. Please update your configurations accordingly.

Branching Mac-on-Linux

After spending a few days waiting on IRC for to get some questions answered it turns out the MOL project seems somewhat inactive. So I decided to put my version up in a SVN repository to keep track of changes properly and enourage everyone to submit their contributions if they would like to. To get the source: svn co svn://svn.archlinuxppc.org/mac-on-linux ...

Mac-on-Linux is back! OpenJDK revamped! And more?

Hey folks, after having spent a while without Mac-on-Linux it's now back better than ever. We made some efforts to port it to our kernel as it requires a kernel module and fixed quite a few bugs thanks to OpenSuSE (kernel patches) and Debian (userland patches). Now everything should be back to work as it was during 2.6.22. If you ...

KDE 4.1 preview

Since there's still a lot to catch up with and to fix within the KDE components themself, we haven't pushed KDE 4.1 builds to [testing] just yet. You can although grab your copy of the work in progress version from here: [kde4] Server = http://kth5.archlinuxppc.org/archlinux/kde4.1-ppc For those who ran KDE 3.5 applications up to know, it is important to know ...

db 4.7 upgrade

We just pushed some of what db 4.7 caused to [testing]. There may be packages left we didn't rebuild just yet so feel free to report them as needed. Also, finally openoffice-base has received its long deserved upgrade to 2.4.1. Good luck with getting your work done!

Kernel 2.6.26 - important wireless change

A note to Airport Extreme owners: The bcm43xx module has been removed as of kernel 2.6.26. Please change your rc.conf to use the newer b43/b43legacy driver and update to a recent firmware. Instructions: http://linuxwireless.org/en/users/Drivers/b43#fw-b43-new b43-fwcutter is available from [core] kernel26-pmac has not yet moved to [core], so if you feel adventurous give it a shot by enabling [testing] and let ...