after a few days of headache, the brand new netbeans package is ready!

at the moment it requires j2sdk, we'll see if i can get it compile using a free compiler or not

x86_64 fpms are reachable in my repo, as usual :)

glibc-2.5 has been uploaded to -current, check out the news here

as it was requested, now we have packaged documentation for the following languages: English, Arabic, Portuguese, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Hong Kong Cantonese), Chinese (Traditional), Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Spanish and Swedish. you can install them by pacman -S php-docs-XX where XX is your language code, like "hu" for Hungarian and so on :)

there was a request for a long time to support installing from an usb stick, now it seems i've had time to implement this feature

you need this tarball, then you can unpack it and run ./usb_install.sh as root

if you hit a bug, then report it to us, as usual ;)

Neon-0.26.1 has been uploaded to -current and all the necessary packages (ie. openoffice.org :)) have been updated, too. it was a challenge :)

i've uploaded Python-2.5 to a separate repo since lots of package will have to be rebuilt. once all the necessary packages are in the repo, we can merge the update to -current

i wanted to start compiling jacman (and all the libs required by it) from source using only free tools (gcj/ecj & the gnu classpath). it seems that the first dep (glazedlists) requires XMLEncoder, but it will be featured only in gcc-4.2.x. so calm down, we should wait.. :/

Mark Angeli submitted our release notice to digg: dvd, cds

here is a small cmdline to query the temperature of a hdd using smartctl: smartctl -a /dev/hdc|grep Celsius|sed 's/.* \([0-9]*\)$/\1/'