Re: [arch-general] Arch Linux release Schedule

2010-05-06 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Am Freitag 07 Mai 2010 schrieb Keith Hinton: > Hi all. > I remember way back when Aaron G posted about how Arches goal would be to > release every four months or so to keep up with regular kernel releases > and frequent ISO images. However, I remember the last official Iso was in > August of 2009.

[arch-general] Arch Linux release Schedule

2010-05-06 Thread Keith Hinton
Hi all. I remember way back when Aaron G posted about how Arches goal would be to release every four months or so to keep up with regular kernel releases and frequent ISO images. However, I remember the last official Iso was in August of 2009. I am not saying that that is bad or anything. I am cu

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Baho Utot
On 05/06/10 19:40, Ng Oon-Ee wrote: On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:54 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: On 05/06/10 08:20, Diogo Franco wrote: On 05/ 6/10 06:08 AM, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which contains over 9,000

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Ng Oon-Ee
On Thu, 2010-05-06 at 18:54 -0400, Baho Utot wrote: > On 05/06/10 08:20, Diogo Franco wrote: > > On 05/ 6/10 06:08 AM, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: > >> outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux > >> User Repository (AUR), which contains over 9,000 build scripts" It > >> sh

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Baho Utot
On 05/06/10 08:20, Diogo Franco wrote: On 05/ 6/10 06:08 AM, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which contains over 9,000 build scripts" It should say "over 21.000 build scripts". IT'S OVER NINE THOUSND!

Re: [arch-general] BTRFS integration

2010-05-06 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Wed, 5 May 2010 18:49:44 -0500 C Anthony Risinger wrote: > any other ideas besides rollbacks and an original snapshot that btrfs > could be used for? IIRC it supports data checksumming. about the whole snapshot/volume naming thing: do what you think is best. i cannot advise you because i don

Re: [arch-general] intel video & suspend

2010-05-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Excerpts from Isaac Dupree's message of Thu, 06 May 2010 14:32 -0400: > On 05/06/10 11:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote: > > Hi folks, > > > > Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and > > everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. > > > > Now from time to time (≈

Re: [arch-general] intel video & suspend

2010-05-06 Thread Isaac Dupree
On 05/06/10 11:49, Sergey Manucharian wrote: Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing

[arch-general] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.32.12-1

2010-05-06 Thread Tobias Powalowski
Hi guys, first try of lts bump to .32 series: - udev-compat is not needed anymore for this kernel - updated lts config to this kernel series - lzma compression is now used With this LTS release, i want to provide binary kernel modules too. Shall the binary modules be part of [core] then too, if th

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Xavier Chantry
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 3:25 PM, Rogutės Sparnuotos wrote: > > All this is probably unrelated to http://gcc.gnu.org/PR43987, but perhaps > it will save some time for someone, as your post about busybox helped me. > I'll wait for a new gcc package before reporting a gcc bug. > IMO you should report

[arch-general] intel video & suspend

2010-05-06 Thread Sergey Manucharian
Hi folks, Regularly I put my ThinkPad R61 into suspend twice a day, and everything worked perfectly until 2.6.32 and 2.6.33 kernels. Now from time to time (≈ once a week) when I wake it up, the screen remains black in both X and text console. Nothing can bring it back, but everything else works j

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Alexander Lam
On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Nilesh Govindarajan wrote: > On 05/06/2010 01:58 PM, Johannes Held wrote: >> >> solsTiCe d'Hiver: >>> >>> One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs >>> (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been >>> discussed s

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] lts kernel bump to .32 series?

2010-05-06 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
On Wed, May 5, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Alexander Lam wrote: > > If I remember correctly, the .32 series has a bug with Intel cards that > > causes screen flickering and the patch that corrects this was only merged > in > > the .33 series > > > > During the .32 series I tried a few arch releases and they

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.05.2010 15:25, schrieb Rogutės Sparnuotos: > I wasted a lot of time yesterday: > > 1. Compiled the kernel from git (for radeon stuff), rebooted. > 2. 'ninit' segfaulted, 'ls' from busybox segfaulted. > 3. Read your mail about busybox breakage, upgraded busybox with >-fno-tree-pta, but...

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 05/06/2010 01:58 PM, Johannes Held wrote: solsTiCe d'Hiver: One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been discussed somewhere I think. How else ? You mean that wikientry? http://wiki.archlinux.org/i

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Nilesh Govindarajan
On 05/06/2010 01:51 PM, solsTiCe d'Hiver wrote: preload works for what it is made. It is not made to speed up firefox startup time. Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other things might explain your slow startup time of firefox. One of the ways to speed up firefox is

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [toolchain] gcc 4.5 breakage

2010-05-06 Thread Rogutės Sparnuotos
Thomas Bächler (2010-05-06 09:45): > Am 06.05.2010 09:44, schrieb Thomas Bächler: > > Am 05.05.2010 02:46, schrieb Allan McRae: > >> Interesting... Does fixing the aliasing fix this one too? I see no > >> upstream bug reports that seem related so you should follow it up there. > >> I will pull in

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Diogo Franco
On 05/ 6/10 06:08 AM, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which contains over 9,000 build scripts" It should say "over 21.000 build scripts". IT'S OVER NINE THOUSND!! Due to the incredible power of 9000,

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Loui Chang
On Thu 06 May 2010 18:08 +0900, Juan Diego Tascón wrote: > I was reading the "about" page (http://www.archlinux.org/about/) in > the archlinux website and I noticed that this line is a little > outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux > User Repository (AUR), which con

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Allan McRae
On 06/05/10 19:15, Thomas Bächler wrote: Am 06.05.2010 11:08, schrieb Juan Diego Tascón: And one more question: is there a proposed starting date or a proposed selection procedure or just additional information for the Junior Developer scheme? I sent an email to Allan (@archlinux.org) the day it

Re: [arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Thomas Bächler
Am 06.05.2010 11:08, schrieb Juan Diego Tascón: > And one more question: is there a proposed starting date or a proposed > selection procedure or just additional information for the Junior > Developer scheme? I sent an email to Allan (@archlinux.org) the day it > opened but I have not received any

[arch-general] about arch

2010-05-06 Thread Juan Diego Tascón
Good day amigos, I was reading the "about" page (http://www.archlinux.org/about/) in the archlinux website and I noticed that this line is a little outdated: "Arch also offers an [unsupported] section in the Arch Linux User Repository (AUR), which contains over 9,000 build scripts" It should say "

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread Johannes Held
solsTiCe d'Hiver : > One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs > (doing it the right way, else you loose your data). This have been > discussed somewhere I think. > How else ? You mean that wikientry? http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Speed-up_Firefox_using_tmpfs -

Re: [arch-general] Is preload really working ??

2010-05-06 Thread solsTiCe d'Hiver
preload works for what it is made. It is not made to speed up firefox startup time. Firefox loads a bunch of sqlite files in your /home. This and other things might explain your slow startup time of firefox. One of the ways to speed up firefox is to put your ~/.mozilla in a tmpfs (doing it the r