Arch Linux

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 ...

Icedtea update

Hey everyone, today we finally made it to update our icedtea package in testing to a fresher snapshot. Now you should be able to run many popular Java applications such as Eclipse, Azureus and OpenOffice. As always, if you experience problems on the way don't hesitate and let us know.

archlinuxppc.org may be partially unreachable

Hey all, in case you're wondering why you can't access any service on archlinuxppc.org from Germany anymore since for a day or so, please check whether you're on a Deutsche Telekom line. It seems that only DTAG lines are affected. Other providers have been checked and they route through properly. Once we figure out why that is, we'll post another ...

Service migration over

The move of archlinuxppc.org has been completed just a few minutes ago. DNS should be up to date and everything set to just continue to work like used to. Thanks for your patience, Your Archlinux PPC Team

Server will be moved to a new datacenter

Hello fellow Archlinux PPC users, due to constant instabilities with our current provider, we had no other choice than to move all services to a new machine in another datacenter. Within the next few days we will be migrating services and it could happen that not everything will be reachable at all times during the transition. In case the ftp ...