A former Parabola contributor, CrazyToon, has passed away earlier
today, December 26th at 4:40 AM UTC, at the age of 60.
On September 30th, he suffered two cerebral aneurysms and intracranial
hemorrhages. Surgery was performed on October 13th and he entered
into coma until November 1st. On November 10th, he suffered two
cerebral strokes and lost all possibility of recovering his health.
He proceeded to have catatonic stupor state, hard convulsions,
continuous high pressure, fever and general hemorrhages.
He will be remembered as the father of two other Parabola
contributors, André Silva ("Emulatorman") and Márcio Silva ("coadde");
for his artwork, including Parabola's mascot; as a Free Software and
Free Culture activist; and as a founder of the Hyperbola project.
As part of our community's heightened interest in platforms amenable to user freedom, Parabola will continue supporting the i686 port for the foreseeable future. The base distro will be based on packages from Arch's unofficial 32-bit port, starting today.
In general users don't need to do anything to make the transition. Just make sure you are using the latest libre/archlinux32-keyring (required by default since pacman 5.0.2-2.parabola1.1) and upgrade as usual:
# pacman -Syy
# pacman -S libre/archlinux32-keyring
# pacman -Su
During the next few days upgrade operations will greet you with warning messages about ...
The following packages have been removed from the [kernels] repository:
- linux-libre-apparmor
- linux-libre-xen
- linux-libre-nand
- linux-libre-audit
- linux-libre-knock
Including their respective -docs and -headers split packages. And a new one was added:
- linux-libre-xtreme: A kernel with hardened patches and handful of awesome security features (AppArmor, SMACK, TOMOYO, SELinux, YAMA)
We want to encourage our users to use kernels from [kernels], you can enable the repository by following this instructions
Since a considerable amount of Parabola developers and users prefer to use the OpenRC init system instead of Systemd, which is the default, we are proud to announce the first releases of Parabola GNU/Linux-libre OpenRC Edition ISOs!
As of now they are still in beta, you can get them here. These are not official, yet, but we are working on fixing all their issues. You can help by testing them and giving us some feedback so we can improve them.
Besides this, due to a bug in MATE, we are planning to replace MATE with LXDE in the graphical ...
The perl package now uses a versioned path for compiled modules. This means that modules built for a non-matching perl version will not be loaded any more and must be rebuilt.
A pacman hook warns about affected modules during the upgrade by showing output like this:
WARNING: '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl' contains data from at least 143 packages which will NOT be used by the installed perl interpreter.
-> Run the following command to get a list of affected packages: pacman -Qqo '/usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl'
You must rebuild all affected packages against the new perl package before you can ...
