The May 2010 TalkingArch snapshot is here! If you had wireless issues with the April 2010 snapshot, they should be fixed. Also, I added a beep to the boot menu. This is useful if you have a console speaker, because the system will beep when the bootloader is ready for you to do something. Sadly, many systems -- including mine -- lack a console speaker. So this little improvement won't help everyone. You can get the May 2010 snapshot from the usual place.
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The April 2010 TalkingArch snapshot is here! As I promised, the image now provides braille support, via a brltty-minimal package. It is finally available for both of the architectures supported by ArchLinux. Get it from the usual place.
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Want to roll your own TalkingArch CDs? It just became easier than ever before! Just grab the talkingarch-git package from the AUR. Build and install it. Note that it depends on archiso-git. Read the README file in /usr/share/doc/talkingarch/README for instructions.
This is all rather untested. It's in a state of flux. I haven't built any images with it just yet.
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Happy New Year! Here's a little preview of what is coming in the world of TalkingArch.
For a long time now, people have been asking about x86_64 images.
I don't have the hardware, and I'm not planning to upgrade
in the near future. However, I just got an email from Zack K, telling
me that qemu can emulate x86_64.
The requisite command is qemu-system-x86_64.
I now have ArchLinux running on a 64-bit virtual machine, and I'm in the
process of building a test image.
Stay tuned.
A couple of you want braille support. This put me in a bit of a dilemma. Braille support is provided by brltty, but the brltty package from the official repositories is much too large for inclusion on a small CD. It has entirely too many dependencies. Last month, I decided to make a customized brltty package, named brltty-minimal. It's in my personal repo, and the PKGBUILD is in the AUR. This should fit nicely onto a CD, without increasing the size too much. Hopefully, the next TalkingArch snapshot will have braille support for those who need it.
posted at: 09:30 | path: / | permanent link to this entry
I'm finally getting around to making a real post here! No, the test post doesn't count.
Looking at my traffic analysis reports, I note that I've distributed more than 6 GB of TalkingArch CD images since September! That's quite amazing. I suspect that many of the downloads came from people who were already using my older releases. There were probably some new users in that bunch as well. If you're using TalkingArch and you haven't yet contacted me, feel free to drop me a line and let me know about your experiences. All in all, I really appreciate comments, and I try to answer questions to the best of my abilities.
My address is cmbrannon79 AT gmail DOT com.
posted at: 11:18 | path: / | permanent link to this entry
This is a test post.
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