Arch News

The second version of Arch user magazine is out.

website Direct download link for Issue 2 here

A verly light weight volume manager for uses with stand alone windowmanagers which mounts drives/cds/dvds/camers etc.

News letter for this month is out. Check it out while its hot.

http://www.archlinux.org/news/440/

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=68825 http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-March/010971.html http://www.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2009-March/010967.html and http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/14052

Ghost1227 writes

The first issue of Arch User Magazine has finally been released! It’s a bit shorter than I would have liked, but hey, it’s a start right? Besides, the more you contribute, the better it will become!

Check out our website at http://archuser.com Direct download link for Issue 1 here

If you are interested in a ps3 port of arch linux, you may find thi interesting..

Support for ATI catalyst driver has been officially dropped from Arch and it has been moved to AUR. Get more details here

From Xyne again

Reposearch is a tool to search through a list of unofficial Arch Linux binary package repositories. The user can retrieve the full list or a subset of the list using a search pattern. The search pattern can be matched against a repository’s name, description, server or all of the above. Perl-style regular expressions (as implemented in php), are supported.

Home and Aur

Chris Brannon has contributed a speech enabled version of Arch Linux install CDs, making it easier for those who are visually impaired. Check it out here

Grub iso

Isolinux

A nice review of Arch at Polishlinux.org

drf wrote

What’s cool in Shaman 1.1?

• Aqpm uses PolicyKit for transactions. This means that all old hacks are removed, not a single line in Shaman is executed as root (you really don’t have to call it as root, it wouldn’t change a thing), byebye suid bit, byebye security issues

• This means that running Shaman with QGtkStyle will finally work, so you people using GNOME should be happy too. Ah, and obviously, you will also get native authentication dialogs thanks to PolicyKit.

• This also means that the scriptlet execution is delegated back to libalpm

• The code is much less, and the app is slightly faster.

Obviously, the tree is in hard development. There are a number of regressions, and by now only updating the database and processing the queue (but no feedback is given yet) work, for config saving is a matter of time.

If you want to start testing it though, you’re more than welcome. You just need polkit-qt as an additional dep (it is in kdesupport, but I hope it will hit Arch’s extra soon [packagers, KDE 4.3 will depend on it, btw]), and obviously to compile and install Aqpm first. If anyone is interested in helping out, I’d be more than happy to receive contributions, or just some feedback.

Shaman Aqpm