The English Wiki main page (http://en.pardus-wiki.org/Main_Page) looks to be reduced to just a few subheadings.

Is it undergoing major updating or has it been sabotaged?

I'm probably missing something very simple but even though I have auctex installed, emacs wants to use the old built-in TeX/LaTeX mode for .tex files.

The only way I've been able to get AucTeX to be used systemwide is to go to /usr/share/emacs/23.2/site-lisp and manually add:
to site-start.el and remove site-start.elc.

Any better ideas?

Firefox 4.0 rc 1 is now in the official testing repository.

There is a package in the "playground" that was updated early last month so it looks as if it's being worked on but is not yet ready.

Probably depends a bit on whether you are using label sheets or printable disks. But For the former, the tool that I have came with a .tiff template that I could then add designs using gimp, and for the latter again I always just filled in a circle within a square image either with gimp or OpenOffice draw.

P.S. You can upload any image from your machine as an avatar, just use the upload image option in the profile setting.

Not really a solution, but transcode can take a sequence of images and turn them into a video. I use it to make movies from the outputs of data display and modelling tools where I can save each frame as a PNG or JPEG. One thing to note is that I've generally found that the deprecated imlist format where the input file is a text file with a list of the images works better than the recommended im format.

Just a heads-up and/or query as to whether anyone else sees this.

It appears that since the latest updates to the Flashplugin the combination of the Nvidia173 driver (for FX5200) and firefox no longer works for most flash videos (YouTube & BBC News).

I don't see any problem with other browsers (e.g. Rekonq) or other X drivers (including Nouveau on the same machine).

Given that it looks to be an interaction of 2 pieces of non-free software there's probably not a lot of point submitting a bug (unless Adobe have a bug system, since it was their software that changed most recently).

That would be more likely to work in the direction of installing a corporate-2 package on 2011, as in general 2011 has more recent versions of libraries, and (apart from C++ code) there is a reasonable chance of something build against an old version of a library running with a newer one, whereas running with an older version than was used in the build is very unlikely to work.

That said, I tend to agree with mpie that mixing versions is not a great idea.

It's been a while since I built any perl stuff, but as I recall the makefile.PL file is a perl script that finds all the dependencies and constructs the makefile (like ./configure in an autoconf build system). I don't remember offhand whether you then need to run make or just "make install".

According to the package lists the repositories have:
chromium-browser 9.0.597.94

So all you should need to do is either select it in the package manager and install or at the command line run:
If you've not installed any packages with the package manager before, you may need to go to the updates tab and let it scan the repositories before it will give you a full list of available packages.

P.S. Does anybody else think it's silly that Google have chromium, chrome & chrome OS? An obsession with the number 24 perhaps!

I can see it from work today, not tried at home -- but they OUGHT to be the same as they use the same network & DNS.

Edit: Works from home as well tonight, must have been some DNS issue.

This sounds very much like the problem I have with my laptop,  with Kubuntu and the Chakra live media the wifi toggle hotkey works fine but under Pardus (2011 and 2009.2) it is ignored and the wireless is stuck in the state that it powered up (usually off but occasionally on). This is with a different wireless card & driver (Intel, iwlagn).  I have reported this as bug 15552 (http://bugs.pardus.org.tr/show_bug.cgi?id=15552). My suspicion is that the problem is with the keyboard handling  rather than the wireless or rfkill modules.

To verify that the problem lies with the card switching try the following command in a terminal window:
I would expect this to tell you that the interface is hard blocked. (You may need to use sudo [i.e. "sudo rfkill list"] to access the low level information I don't remember and I don't have the machine to hand right now).

Does anybody know what has happened to the Linux news site lxer (http://lxer.com)?  I've not been able to access it for a couple of days.

I guess the developers & maintainers are becoming more aware of the size of the user base outside Turkey.

On several systems that are running Pardus 2011, I've noticed the following error messages occurring in /var/log/syslog:
Does this make sense to anyone, or does it look like a bug?