By Sloshy, on May 19th, 2011 As I read discussions about software, I find that there are quite a few people that don’t understand the proper way to act, which results discussions turning into heated, personal arguments. To help potentially lower the damage done in these discussions, I’m making this Rolling Release post about software discussion etiquette as the spiritual successor to Allan McRae’s blog post, “How To File A Bug Report“. In Allan’s post, he lists several things to keep in mind that also apply here. While I don’t claim to be an expert on etiquette, I know from first-hand experience that developers and designers want users to be as pleasant and simple as possible to work with, and by following these general guidelines (at least), you can help your favorite software project by not being a jerk  . Continue reading Software Discussion Etiquette By Sloshy, on May 12th, 2011 GNOME 3, the latest version of one of the most popular Linux Desktop Environments, was released last month and subsequently put in [testing]. It has been well over a week since it was moved out of [testing] and into [extra], so a good amount of GNOME users have probably tried it by now. Users . . . → Read More By jdarnold, on March 25th, 2011 What went on in the world of your favorite Linux distro last week: Latest News wicd split in ‘wicd’ and ‘wicd-gtk’ – announcing a split of the wicd package in the official repository, so you don’t have to use the wicd-nogtk from AUR Hot Forum Topics How to find file duplicates only matching size, . . . → Read More By jdarnold, on March 17th, 2011 Latest News syslinux now includes a default configuration file Hot Forum Topics Linux Survey – fill out a survey, get some data In search of a truly innovative Desktop – interesting discussion on what makes a good desktop flash isn’t working anymore – long discussion about broken Flash. Stupid Flash. [Solved] Gnome 2.32 “About . . . → Read More By jdarnold, on March 11th, 2011 Latest News ArchServer RC3 – Release announcement for ArchServer redgum RC3 New Arch Schwag – New Arch Linux laptop bags, plus reduced price on older models and a sale on Arch Linux pens Hot Forum Topics Linux Survey – fill out a survey, get some data In search of a truly innovative Desktop – . . . → Read More By Ghost1227, on March 1st, 2011 The Rolling Release Team is proud to announce that our site is now viewable from your favorite mobile device! Now we know that technically it always has been possible, but those who have tried can attest to the difficulty this can present. With this latest update, users now have the ability to browse Rolling . . . → Read More By jdarnold, on March 1st, 2011 Latest News Contributers Wanted : Cool list of job openings for Arch Linux. Give it a gander! Hot Forum Topics rc.sysinit screwed after pacman -Syu : Tracking down an update problem The Archer: a simple-ish wallpaper : nice simple Arch wallpaper Powered By Arch Linux – Wallpapers : more Arch wallpapers Arch MicroATX Case . . . → Read More By triplem, on February 27th, 2011 We, the ArchServer Team, are proud to announce the Release Candidate 3 (RC3) of the ArchServer ‘redgum‘ release. This release provides the following features: Latest Longterm-support (LTS) kernel; 2.6.32.28 Update to the latest pacman version (3.4.2) Use DHCP or Static IP (fallback) during Installation (for remote installation) Dual Architecture ISO Images Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) packages (e.g. . . . → Read More By jdarnold, on February 22nd, 2011 Some interesting happenings in the ArchLinux.org world. An extension of my previous “Wiki Updates” posting. Latest News MySQL 5.5 is now in [extra] (2011-02-07) Hot Forum Topics MySQL upgrade issue Xfce shutdown and reboot disabled with startxfce4 conky configs and screenshots! Interesting Packages Yapan – Yet Another Package mAnager Notifier (Forum Thread) bin32-e-uae – . . . → Read More By 655321, on January 22nd, 2011 Alienware is conducting a survey about the possibility to sell their system with Linux preinstalled and you can help!! . . . → Read More | |
