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                <td><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/packages/testing/x86_64/kde-l10n-da/" class="testing">kde-l10n-da 4.2.2-1</a></td>
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        <h2>Welcome to Arch!</h2>
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            You've reached the website for <strong>Arch Linux</strong>, a lightweight
            and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple.
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            Currently we have official packages optimized for the i686 and x86-64
            architectures.  We complement our official package sets with a
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            that grows in size and quality each and every day.
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-03-23</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/439/">ATI catalyst support dropped</a></h4>
        <p class="news">As many of you may have noticed, support for the
 catalyst ATI Linux driver, has been moved to the AUR (Arch Linux User 
Repository). This was partly due to lack of motivation from the 
maintainer in charge of the package and lack of support from AMD to the 
general Linux ecosystem. AMD has been great to the Linux community, and 
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-03-09</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/438/">Bug Day - Saturday 21st March</a></h4>
        <p class="news">On Saturday the 21st of March we will be holding
 a bug day to combat the ever increasing number of reports in our bug 
tracker. We will clear outdated reports, fix/implement those that 
already have patches provided or are trivial to fix/implement and 
discuss the pros and cons of implementing some feature requests. A rough
 TODO list that you can ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-03-05</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/437/">Newsletter for March, 2009</a></h4>
        <p class="news">The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to 
announce the Newsletter for March 2009. To discuss this newsletter, 
click here. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, here they 
are.</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-03-02</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/436/">xorg-server 1.6.0 in testing</a></h4>
        <p class="news">The upcoming version of xorg-server will have a 
lot of workarounds and patches removed. Doing so, the package becomes 
easier to understand, as even its maintainer has no idea what is 
happening anymore. When upgrading to xorg-server-1.6, you will see these
 file conflicts on most systems: error: failed to prepare transaction 
(conflicting files) xorg-server: 
/usr/lib/xorg/modules/extensions/libdri.so exists in filesystem 
xorg-server: /usr/lib/xorg/modules/libwfb.so ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-02-18</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/435/">2009.02 ISO Release Update</a></h4>
        <p class="news">The original archlinux-2009.02-ftp-i686.img USB 
image was broken, a new image (archlinux-2009.02-2-ftp-i686.img) has 
been uploaded. We are sorry for any inconvenience this may have caused 
you. With one image broken, we also had to create new torrents: We now 
use a single torrent per file again and added more mirrors to the 
webseeds. All seeders should stop seeding the old torrent ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-02-16</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/434/">2009.02 ISO Release</a></h4>
        <p class="news">We proudly announce the release of the new Arch 
Linux installation images, version 2009.02. It took us quite a while, 
but we think the result is worth it: we added some cool new things and 
ironed out some long-lasting imperfections. 2009.02 comes with the 
following features: - Kernel 2.6.28 - Ext4 support. Installation can be 
done on a ext4 root ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-02-13</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/433/">Newsletter for February, 2009</a></h4>
        <p class="news">The Arch Linux Newsletter team is proud to 
announce the Newsletter for February 2009. To discuss this newsletter, 
click here. To read past issues of the Arch Linux Newsletter, here they 
are.</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-01-26</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/431/">KDE 4.2 is out and we are ready!</a></h4>
        <p class="news">Today, on January 27th, the KDE team announces 
the stable version of KDE 4.2.0, so we have moved all kde-packages from 
[testing] to [extra]. We suggest that you exit from KDE before you 
update, backup your ~/.kde4 configuration dir and start with a clean 
config. Take a look at old plasmoids, they might not work with the new 
Plasma. You ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-01-22</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/430/">Release Engineering Team</a></h4>
        <p class="news">I'd like to announce a newly formed team made to
 manage our ISO releases. The intent here is to provide you with up to 
date installation tools and release ISOs based on the kernel's release 
schedule. Current Team Members: Aaron Griffin (that's me!) Gerhard 
Brauer (GerBra - ISO and installer) Dieter Plaetinck (Dieter@be - 
installer/AIF) If you're interested in ISO ...</p>
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        <span style="float:right; font-size:x-small">2009-01-19</span>
        <h4 class="news"><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20090327235558/http://www.archlinux.org/news/429/">inetutils-1.6-2 in [core]</a></h4>
        <p class="news">To replace several orphaned netkit packages that
 were unmaintained upstream, we just added inetutils-1.6-2 in the [core]
 repo. This new package will provide the following network 
clients/daemons: ftp/ftpd rexec/rexecd rlogin/rlogind rsh/rshd 
talk/talkd telnet/telnetd rcp. It will be replacing the following 
packages: core/netkit-telnet extra/netkit-ftp extra/netkit-rsh On a 
related note, netkit-tftp will be remove from the repo in favor of 
tftp-hpa. The ...</p>
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