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.
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