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Arch Linux [/] Home Packages Forums Wiki GitLab Security AUR Download Arch Planet Planet Arch Linux is a window into the world, work and lives of Arch Linux developers, package maintainers and support staff. Why stdout is faster than stderr? 2024-01-10 I recently realized stdout is much faster than stderr for Rust. Here are my findings after diving deep into this rabbit hole. Unknown@ Orhun Parmaksiz Making dbus-broker our default D-Bus daemon 2024-01-09 We are making dbus-broker our default implementation of D-Bus, for improved performance, reliability and integration with systemd. For the foreseeable future we will still support the use of dbus-daemon , the previous implementation. Pacman will ask you whether to install dbus-broker-units or dbus-daemon-units . We recommend picking the default. For a more detailed rationale, please see our RFC 25 . Jan Alexander Steffens@ Official News Plans and ideas for 2024 2024-01-07 A follow-up to my reflections on 2023, my plans and ideas for 2024. Rubin Simons@ Rubin Simons Stream to chromecast with resolved, vlc and bash 2024-01-06 Chromecast is one of those devices I just generally use a lot. They are small practical and enables me to stream video or music to my TV from multiple devices. But it also requires you to have a supported browser or video player. This is obviously a bit boring. There has been multiple command line chromecast streamers through the years. But their ffmpeg usage has been shoddy at best with no hardware decoding support and usually quite bad implementations. Morten Linderud Reflecting on my 2023 2023-12-31 I figured I’d write a post about this last year, maybe to crystalize thoughts I’ve been having, and to help figure some things out for the times ahead. Rubin Simons@ Rubin Simons Bugtracker migration to GitLab completed 2023-12-03 We are happy to announce that the migration of the bugtracker to GitLab is done! 🥳 Thanks to everyone who has helped during the migration! This means the issue tracker and merge requests on the GitLab package repos are now enabled. The old bugtracker will subsequently be closed down. For archiving reasons there will be a static copy so that links (for example the randomly picked Task #56716 ) are still stable, migrated bugs have a closing comment pointing to the new URL on GitLab. Packaging bugs are now opened on the repo hosting the corresponding packaging sources, the "Add a new Bug" button on the package page on archlinux.org will automatically direct you to the correct place to open the issue. The workflow afterwards is mostly the same, first our Bug Wranglers will have a look at the issues and triage them, and then they will be handed over to the respective Package Maintainers to fix. A list of all issues can be found here . If you do not have an account for GitLab already (which authenticates against our SSO service ), please write us a mail with your desired username to accountsupport@archlinux.org as advised in the banner. Christian Heusel@ Official News November 2023-12-03 Arch Linux in November 2023 # Arch Summit 2023 # The Arch Summit took place in Hamburg, Germany, on November 4th and 5th, bringing together Arch Linux staff and invited guests. The summit provided an opportunity for the staff to connect, socialize, and delve into discussions regarding various aspects of our distro. A range of topics were explored including but not limited to infrastructure and mirror management, rebuilders for packages, signing enclave, mkinitcpio, packaging tooling improvements, and community building. Arch Monthly Reports October 2023-11-22 Arch Linux in October 2023 # Staff # We would like to welcome Christian Heusel (gromit) to the Arch Linux DevOps team, expanding his responsibilities. bugbuddy # The initial version of Bugbuddy, our GitLab bug bot, has been introduced. This tool assigns package maintainers to confirmed GitLab issues in the packaging group. Notably, the code has undergone substantial improvement, now operating as a daemon process that can promptly respond to GitLab webhook calls. Arch Monthly Reports Operating System Bias in Next Generation Internet and NLnet 2023-11-16 In Grants for Operating Systems I discussed my journey through the grant application writing business since beginning of last year. To keep things light and somewhat focused, I left out a topic, that I would like to write about in more detail in the following sections. It's about selection bias in grants provided by Next Generation Internet ( NGI ), that can be applied for directly or through NLnet . Read more… (11 min remaining to read) David Runge@ David Runge Grants for Operating Systems 2023-11-14 Over the past years I have written (unsuccessful) funding applications for free software projects, associated with the Arch Linux Operating System. This article is about my experiences with applying for numerous funds and my advice for people trying to get their work funded. TL;DR: Writing funding applications is extremely tedious and the selection process mostly intransparent and discouraging. Depending on what you apply for and who you apply with, you may never get funding due to other, additional factors. Read more… (8 min remaining to read) David Runge@ David Runge Incoming changes in JDK / JRE 21 packages may require manual intervention 2023-11-02 We are introducing a change in JDK/JRE packages of our distro. This is triggered from the way a JRE is build in modern versions of Java (>9). We are introducing this change in Java 21. To sum it up instead of having JDK and JRE packages coexist in the same system we will be making them conflict. The JDK variant package includes the runtime environment to execute Java applications so if one needs compilation and runtime of Java they need only the JDK package in the future. If, on the other hand, they need just runtime of Java then JRE (or jre-headless) will work. This will (potentially) require a manual user action during upgrade: If you have both JDK and JRE installed you can manually install the JDK with pacman -Syu jdk-openjdk and this removes the JRE related packages. If you have both JRE and JRE-headless you will need to choose one of them and install it manually since they would conflict each other now. If you only have one of the JDK/JRE/JRE-headless pacman should resolve dependencies normally and no action is needed. At the moment this is only valid for the upcoming JDK 21 release. Frederik Schwan@ Official News Fully Automated Releases for Rust Projects 2023-10-24 Here is how you can publish a Rust project with a single click of a button and automate everything . Unknown@ Orhun Parmaksiz September 2023-10-22 Arch Linux in September 2023 # Staff # We would like to welcome Fabian Bornschein (fabiscafe) as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. Bug weekend # During the 1st to 3rd of September, we conducted a bug weekend with the aim of resolving old bugs and implementing proposed solutions. This effort not only reduced the backlog but also contributed to streamlining the upcoming bug tracker migration, resulting in the resolution of approximately 200 bugs. Arch Monthly Reports Store ssh keys inside the TPM: ssh-tpm-agent 2023-10-04 After writing age-plugin-tpm a friend of mine at the hackerspace was super excited to finally have easy file encryption with TPM sealed keys, all without having to rely on gnupg. “This is great!” he said. “I wish I could have my SSH keys sealed in a TPM just as easily”. We should have left it at that. I shouldn’t have replied with a random assortment of facts like “I know google/go-tpm now”, or “but Go has a ssh-agent protocol implementation” followed-up with “Filippo has already implemented yubikey-agent, it can’t be that hard”. Morten Linderud Changes to default password hashing algorithm and umask settings 2023-09-22 With shadow >= 4.14.0 , Arch Linux's default password hashing algorithm changed from SHA512 to yescrypt . Furthermore, the umask settings are now configured in /etc/login.defs instead of /etc/profile . This should not require any manual intervention. Reasons for Yescrypt The password-based key derivation function (KDF) and password hashing scheme yescrypt has been chosen due to its adoption (readily available in libxcrypt , which is used by pam ) and its stronger resilience towards password cracking attempts over SHA512 . Although the winner of the Password Hashing Competition has been argon2 , this algorithm is not yet available in libxcrypt … David Runge@ Official News July 2023-09-10 Arch Linux in August 2023 # Staff # We would like to welcome Tomaz Canabrava (tcanabrava) as part of the Arch Linux Package Maintainer team. AURWeb # In AURWeb v6.2.7, we primarily focused on bug fixes while revamping Prometheus metrics. We introduced new measures like request tracking and cache-hit/miss ratios for search queries, enhancing our ability to make development decisions and aiding the AUR moderation team in identifying trends. Arch Monthly Reports Phosh now available on Arch Linux 2023-09-10 Having a full Linux mobile or tablet device has always interested me, to have an alternative to Android and use Arch Linux everywhere. Realistically I won't be able to give up Android on my phone, but what about tablet's? Phosh was developed to be a graphical user interface for mobile … Jelle van der Waa (jelle@vdwaa.nl)@ Jelle van der Waa Weechat With SSH Tunneling 2023-09-08 In the past, I have used Weechat with Weechat and IRC relays. Since, I have switched to ChromeOS, I disabled the IRC relay, because I switched to the Weechat Android App on ChromeOS. Nevertheless, I was never 100% happy with the Weechat relay. The relay usually works via a shared password and access to this relay is equal to SSH access. Hence, I have decided to switch to SSH tunneling. With SSH tunneling, I am able to use SSH keys for authentication. Christian Rebischke From tui-rs to Ratatui: 6 Months of Cooking Up Rust TUIs 2023-08-28 Let's take a look at what is new in the new version of " Ratatui " and how it became the successor of tui-rs . Unknown@ Orhun Parmaksiz ansible-core >= 2.15.3-1 update may require manual intervention 2023-08-19 As of ansible-core 2.15.3 , upstream moved documentation and examples to a separate dedicated repository (see the related changelogs ). This means that, starting from version 2.15.3 the ansible-core package will stop shipping documentation and a default configuration example under /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg . Regarding the documentation, it is available online: https://docs.ansible.com/ As for the configuration file, as explained in the wiki , a base config can be generated with the following command: ansible-config init --disabled > ansible.cfg After updating from ansible-core <= 2.15.2-1 to >= 2.15.3-1 , everyone using a custom global Ansible configuration file stored under /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg will have their configuration saved as a pacsave file. To restore it, run the following command: mv /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg.pacsave /etc/ansible/ansible.cfg Robin Candau@ Official News budgie-desktop >= 10.7.2-6 update requires manual intervention 2023-08-11 When upgrading from budgie-desktop 10.7.2-5 to 10.7.2-6, the package mutter43 must be replaced with magpie-wm, which currently depends on mutter. As mutter43 conflicts with mutter, manual intervention is required to complete the upgrade. First remove mutter43, then immediately perform the upgrade. Do not relog or reboot between these steps. pacman -Rdd mutter43 pacman -Syu Campbell Jones@ Official News Yubikey in Crostini 2023-08-05 Hello friend, long ago I have ditched Arch Linux for my main operating systems and switched to ChromeOS with Arch Linux in Crostini. For a long time this setup worked fine, until I encountered a few issues with Arch Linux and Yubikeys. In this article, I would like to show you how I setup my Yubikey on Arch Linux running in Crostini within ChromeOS. First, we have to ensure that /etc/polkit-1/rules. Christian Rebischke Mount Block Devices in ChromeOS 2023-08-05 I am a big fan of LUKS encrypted USB sticks. They are easy to make and easy to handle on most Linux systems. ChromeOS is one of these systems, where I had trouble with LUKS encrypted USB sticks or block devices in general. Although ChromeOS is capable to mount a various number of filesystems, it has no idea what to do with a LUKS encrypted USB stick. The first idea most people have is launching a Crostini container and decrypting the USB stick via cryptsetup. Christian Rebischke July 2023-08-01 Arch Linux in July 2023 # Staff # We would like to welcome Mario Oenning (moson) as new Arch Linux Support Staff Member. devtools # arch-nspawn is now utilizing a distinct scope name instead of the previous --keep-unit approach. This allows for the creation of a dedicated scope, placing the container within a slice hierarchy which allows a more precise resource control. This enhancement will be part of the next release. Arch Monthly Reports Running Arch Linux on the Framework Laptop 13 2023-07-31 This article sums up why and how I run Arch Linux on my new Framework Laptop 13, which I received on the 3rd of this month. 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