Allan McRae wrote:
The number of bugs in the Arch Linux bug tracker is creeping up so it is time for some extermination.
This is a great way for the community to get involved and help the Arch Linux team. The process is simple. First look at a bug for your favorite piece of software in the bug tracker and check if it still occurs.
Paul Mattal wrote:
When the holidays are over and mid-winter depressions sets in, Arch Linux will be there for you.
On Sunday 1/3, we'll have our next Bug Day. We've been making progress each month-- let's surge in 2010!
Join us whenever you can; you can find us in the #archlinux-bugs IRC forum in the afternoon and evening EST.
Happy holidays, bugs-- they may be your last.
Behind the scenes: Andrea Veri, the new GNOME part-time System Administrator.
Some days ago Andrea Veri was chosen by the GNOME Foundation to support and maintain GNOME's IT infrastructure.
His hiring comes at the end of a journey, during which Andrea has shown his technical abilities and passion for GNOME, and could be considered a sort of acknowledgement and thanksfor all the work he's don
Matthias Clasen proudly announced a few minutes ago, November 15, that the second and last maintenance release of the GNOME 3.6 desktop environment is now available for download.
GNOME 3.6.2 is a necessary upgrade for all users of GNOME 3.6, bringing many enhancements, squashing numerous bugs and updating lots of translations.
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amckee wrote:- Bug Squashing (where do I start?)This is my favorite way for people to get involved. Go to the bug tracker, find a bug in a piece of software you use. Try to replicate it, look for a fix or an open bug report upstream, post details in the tracker of whether the fix works or link to bug, etc...
Allan
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Hello fellow birders,
We know some of you have been dying for an update and here it is! We tried to incorporate as much of your feedback as possible and we hope you’re pleased with the results.
Questa calda estate volge al termine, e mentre tanti di noi riprendono possesso delle loro workstation casalinghe, abbiamo voluto rivolgere qualche domanda a Andrea “Bash” Scarpino, uno degli sviluppatori italiani della distribuzione Arch Linux, molto popolare tra coloro che hanno un po’ più di dimestichezza con le dinamiche del pinguino.
I've been looking through the forums and internets over the past couple days to find a solution for my issue, but have been unlucky. I am posting here with hopes of finding a solution or at least a direction to search to solve my issue. I have a home built machine that contains a nvidia GeForce GTX 560Ti card. Everything was working well until last Saturday when things went haywire.
After reading this "ooh, nice!" thread about mupdf speed:https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65318I searched and found an old kde playground project about mupdf as an okular backend, so i made a pkgbuild to test it and it works fine.Printing is not possible, but if you want to try...Is a bit hacky and is based on an old mupdf version:PKGBUILD:# $Id: PKGBUILD 166208 2012-09-05 18:2