Posted on Fri 03 August 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Magazine
It's almost 10 years ago that Ghost1227 created the Arch User Magazine and this week I got reminded about it's existence. I found that the original domain where the magazine was hosted was no longer owned by Ghost1227, but by using …
Posted on Wed 01 August 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
The Arch Linux website has been updated and it's search functionality was expanded to make it able to find the 'archlinux-keyring' by searching for 'archlinux keyring'. This was contributed by an external!. Another small visual improvement was made by removing some empty spaces in provides.
AURpublish was …
Posted on Tue 10 July 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, FrOSCon
Yet another shoutout for FrOSCon, which will be held 25th and 26th of August. Arch Linux will have a devroom with talks so far about Linux Pro Audio and our general Infrastructure / Reproducible build.
Thanks to Stickermule there will be Arch Linux sticker to hand out.
Posted on Mon 02 July 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
The Arch Archive has been cleaned up, the discussion started in this mail thread. The archive server was running out of space and therefore needed some cleaning, all packages which are not required for reproducible builds where removed (and where from 2013/2014/2015). Packages from these years …
Posted on Sat 02 June 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Pacman, Arch Linux
Finally! A new pacman release, this version adds some critical bits for reproducible builds and the pacman repository has been shed of misc tools which are now in pacman-contrib. More details in the changelog and on reddit
For reproducible builds, every package in the repository build …
Posted on Tue 06 February 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, FOSDEM, TU, DevOps
Arch Linux Trusted Users, Developers and members of the Security team have been at FOSDEM. Next year there will be more stickers hopefully and maybe a talk, but it was great to meet some Arch users in real life, discuss and even hack on the Security Tracker …
Posted on Mon 01 January 2018 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, FOSDEM, 34C3, AUR
Arch Linux Trusted Users, Developers and members of the Security team have been at 34C3 and even held a small meetup. There was also an #archlinux.de assembly where people from the irc channel could meet each other. Seeing how much interest there was this year, it …
Posted on Sun 26 November 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux, Security, Reproducible
The reproducible build initiative has been started a long time ago by Debian and has been grown to include more projects. Arch is now also in the process of getting reproducible build support, thanks to the of hard work of Anthraxx, Sangy, and many more volunteers. In pacman git patches …
Posted on Fri 26 May 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
This is the second edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community.
After reporting about the Arch-boxes project last week. Pierres created the Arch Linux organization on Docker and created a base image. The docker build …
Posted on Wed 17 May 2017 in Arch Linux • Tagged with Arch Linux
This is the first edition of Arch weekly, a small weekly post about the news in the Arch Linux community. Hopefully this will be a recurring weekly blog post!
After the disappearance of linux-grsec from the repos due to the Grsecurity project not providing the required …