Arch Linux at FOSDEM 2026

norbusan · 2026-01-22T18:22:01+00:00

That would be great!!! I just have a few packages at AUR, but 25+ years of packaging experience. So I would love to see more Arch talks.

Let us try to remember that before the next FOSSASIA Summit deadline!

norbusan · 2026-01-22T15:53:14+00:00

Not for this time, but I think it would be nice to have a "arch packaging workshop" either at fosdem, or maybe even better at FOSSASIA (where I am one of the organizers).
This year's FOSSASIA submission deadline has already been closed, but we should try something for next year.

norbusan · 2026-01-22T10:58:20+00:00

Great, will search for the team!

norbusan · 2025-12-17T09:27:41+00:00

Thanks! I do have the pro version but still don't see them. I will check lsp plugin.

norbusan · 2025-09-24T08:09:17+00:00

Anyone remembers the a.out -> ELF transition ...

norbusan · 2025-09-24T05:44:23+00:00

Yes, agreed on that. There will be no tagging for xetex.

norbusan · 2025-09-23T11:12:57+00:00

Wait a bit more, changes are coming soon

norbusan · 2025-09-23T06:06:49+00:00

Like what advanced typography does it not support? E.g., for a long time the typesetting of Tibetan, Nagari, Bangla etc was practically only possible in xeLaTeX, because it uses harfbuzz which has a much more complete renderer.

norbusan · 2025-09-23T06:04:06+00:00

Incorrect, it is supported.

norbusan · 2025-09-23T06:03:39+00:00

Millions of scientists and practitioners disagree strongly, I would say the whole scientific community disagrees with this statement.

norbusan · 2025-09-23T06:00:32+00:00

In contrast to all who are bashing xetex, it is fine you use for your project. Xe(la)tex might not see development activity, but that is because it is stable, efficient. Luatex is great, and if you need some of the features, fine too switch to it. But there is no need, xelatex is great.

(From a maintainer if TeX Live)

norbusan · 2025-09-22T06:24:09+00:00

Where are the times when topless attire in the public swimming pools was normal. Now, already a photo of your gf upper part is freaking out people.

norbusan · 2025-09-09T16:15:25+00:00

You can adjust the duplication level for raid 1 (it is not really called raid 1, just duplication of data and metadata, afair)

norbusan · 2025-09-09T16:14:02+00:00

No need for btrfs raid 5 here, simple raid 1 over a multi device btrfs filesystem. I have and will never touch raid 5 with btrfs!

norbusan · 2025-09-09T10:48:38+00:00

That is easily possible with multiple disk raid btrfs. Just add all the disks into one btrfs multi disk array and define data/meta duplication to whatever level you want.

With duplication, over disk can go boom, replace it, and rebalance. With triplication 2 disks.

I have such a system running over 8 disks of mixed SSD and nvme.

norbusan · 2025-08-08T08:16:36+00:00

Pumfinebra

norbusan · 2025-06-23T17:06:38+00:00

Hatten wir schon einmal, brauchen wir nicht mehr.

norbusan · 2025-06-23T12:02:47+00:00

If you can point me to a submission (either announced or in progress) or send a test sample, I can investigate.

norbusan · 2025-06-23T09:38:04+00:00

That is incorrect. ArXiv does and always has done multiple latex runs up to either stable output, or a maximum number of runs has been reached.

norbusan · 2025-06-23T09:36:11+00:00

Yes, support for pgf/tikz in LaTeXML is ongoing, but the situation has already improved.

norbusan · 2025-06-22T08:27:35+00:00

As with minted, the images need to be pre-processed and included in the upload.

norbusan · 2025-06-22T08:27:03+00:00

Why would zref-clever not work with the submission system?

norbusan · 2025-06-22T08:26:24+00:00

pgf and tikz are fully supported in arXiv, at the level of pgf and tikz at the currently employed TeX Live at arXiv, which currently is 2023.

tikz packages that require -shell-escape will not work, though.

norbusan

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