[arch-announce] Increasing the default vm.max_map_count value

2024-04-07 Thread Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau
The [vm.max_map_count][1] paramater will be increased from the default `65530` value to `1048576`. This change should help address performance, crash or start-up issues for a number of memory intensive applications, particularly for (but not limited to) [some Windows games][2] played through

[arch-announce] ansible-core >= 2.15.3-1 update may require manual intervention

2023-08-19 Thread Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau
As of `ansible-core 2.15.3`, upstream moved documentation and examples to a separate [dedicated repository](https://github.com/ansible/ansible-documentation) (see the [related changelogs](https://github.com/ansible/ansible/blob/v2.15.3/changelogs/CHANGELOG-v2.15.rst#minor-changes)). This

[arch-announce] Switch to the base-devel meta package requires manual intervention

2023-02-12 Thread Arch Linux: Recent news updates: Robin Candau
The `base-devel` package group has recently been replaced by a meta package of the same name. People that had the `base-devel` package group installed (meaning people that installed `base-devel` before February 2nd) have to explicitly re-install it to get the new `base-devel` package