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| ncurses 5.7-2 | x86_64 |
| ncurses 5.7-2 | i686 |
| dhcpcd 4.0.4-1 | x86_64 |
| grub 0.97-14 | x86_64 |
| sudo 1.6.9p18-1 | x86_64 |
| gcc-gcj 4.3.2-2 | i686 |
| dhcpcd 4.0.4-1 | i686 |
| grub 0.97-14 | i686 |
| sudo 1.6.9p18-1 | i686 |
| valgrind 3.3.1-3 | x86_64 |
| gcc-gcj 4.3.2-2 | x86_64 |
| valgrind 3.3.1-3 | i686 |
| sqlite3 3.6.6-1 | i686 |
| man-pages 3.13-1 | x86_64 |
| tzdata 2008i-1 | x86_64 |
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Releases
| 2008.06 | Overlord | 2008-06-24 |
| 2007.08-2 | Don't Panic | 2007-10-07 |
| 2007.08.1 | Don't Panic | 2007-09-10 |
| 2007.08 | Don't Panic | 2007-08-05 |
| 2007.05 | Duke | 2007-05-17 |
| 0.8 | Voodoo | 2007-03-31 |
| 0.7.2 | Gimmick | 2006-05-23 |
| 0.7.1 | Noodle | 2006-01-05 |
| 0.7 | Wombat | 2005-01-24 |
| 0.6 | Widget | 2004-03-01 |
| 0.5 | Nova | 2003-07-21 |
| 0.4 | Dragon | 2002-12-18 |
| 0.3 | Firefly | 2002-08-07 |
| 0.2 | Vega | 2002-04-17 |
| 0.1 | Homer | 2002-03-11 |
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Latest News
2008-11-20
We're back
We're back from our world domination planning. Our server is up and we will slowly be turning on services as we get them configured and ready for public consumption. If you notice something not working. please hold off for a day before reporting it as we may still be trying to get it up. Thanks for your patience!
2008-11-19
Planned Downtime
The main archlinux.org server will be going down for a planned hardware upgrade for some of tomorrow (Nov 20th). We are adding RAM, disk space, and switching to x86_64. Thanks to everyone who has donated, you're the ones making this happen. See you all in about a day.
2008-11-09
ZSH Force Upgrade
To ZSH Users: The 4.3.9 zsh upgrade must be forced, as the package now properly handles the unzipped man pages. Before they were unzipped in the .install file, meaning the files weren't tracked in the pacman db, now they are never zipped with the '!zipman' options flag. Thanks to Xavier/shining for being a patient, bug and patch submitting awesome dude. ...
2008-11-09
Newsletter for November, 2008
The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to announce the Newsletter for November 2008. To discuss this newsletter, click here. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, here they are.
2008-11-06
pkgstats: contribution was never that easy
Annoying bug you filed not fixed? Waiting on a package to be updated? If only there was some way you could help out and improve everybody's favourite Linux distribution... (in case you are wondering, I mean Arch). Wait! There is! Just install the pkgstats package (pacman -Sy pkgstats), run the /usr/bin/pkgstats script as a user and help the Arch developers ...
2008-11-03
JRE and JDK Moved to Community
As some of you may have noticed, the sun Java Runtime Environment and the Java Development Kit have spent too much time waiting in the extra repository waiting for some love. However, no developer was excited to maintain these packages. Since we already have the OPENJDK6 package, an open source implementation of the JRE and JDK, we have decided to ...
2008-11-03
Arch Schwag Storefront
Most of you are probably aware of the Arch Schwag Shop for custom merchandise hosted by Zazzle. Many of you also know of my attempts to supplement this with other custom merchandise including case badges, USB keys, and jewellery. Now I would like to officially announce a new storefront for these Arch products making it easier for you to purchase ...
2008-11-02
Unplanned downtime
Sorry about the unplanned downtime- we had an issue with the server this weekend and we couldn't address it until about an hour ago. Everything should be back up again and mirrors should resume syncing tonight. If you notice anything funny or worth noting now that the server is back up, please send an email to the arch-general mailing list. ...
2008-10-22
squirrelmail: return to stable branch
Back in the paleozoic era, during the migration from PHP 4 to PHP 5, we switched to Squirrelmail's development branch out of necessity. Now many years later, this is no longer a problem. In keeping with Arch general best practices, we are switching to the stable 1.4.x series in [extra]. If you have input for us to consider in finalizing ...
2008-10-14
Kernel 2.6.27 in core
Last night, kernel26 2.6.27-2 has been moved from testing to core. This upgrade seems to be pretty smooth, so don't expect many problems. - Watchdog drivers have been enabled as modules. - MSI/MSI-X is now activated. If your system fails to boot or some PCI devices don't work, add pci=nomsi to your kernel commandline (http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=56940) - The ipw3945 driver doesn't ...
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