How To Read The Latest Arch Linux News

so as a Linux User it's important to keep up with important news especially for your Linux distribution and for me I run an arch-based Linux distribution and as an arch user you really need to pay attention to the latest Arch news because occasionally there are important changes that are made you there are things that may or may not cause you some breakage on your arch drro so you know you need to pay attention to the latest news now there are several ways for you to get the latest news from Arch Linux the most obvious is simply going to Arch linux.org and on the front page is always the latest news there are several different ways you can go about getting the arch news for example did you know that Arch has mailing list I know a lot of people don't necessarily use mailing lists anymore but if you wanted to you certainly could subscribe to the arch announce mailing list that way anytime there is an important you know an official announcement from Arch Linux you get that right in your email but that's a little bit too old school that's a little bit too retro for most people most people don't want to use a mailing list did you know that you can actually get the arch news from your terminal if I open a terminal and zoom in most people that are using Arch or an arch based distribution have either yay or paru installed on their Linux distribution both yay and and paru they're essentially front ends to the Pac-Man package manager they're also a a helper they can install packages not just from the official repositories but they can also install packages from the Aur the arch user repository but both yay and paru have commands to actually read the latest Arch news so the command is paru or y- capital P lowercase w to get the latest Arch news and if there's nothing recent it's going to respond with no new news so that's with recent news but if I up arrow and Tack on one more lowercase w so paru or y- capital P lowercase ww it will spit out all the news so not just the latest news but you can actually go back through past news as well so this is a very easy way to go back and read these important Arch Linux news announcements there are several terminal based programs that are designed strictly for reading the arch news one of the most popular ones is a program called informant and this is the GitHub for informant it is available as a a package so you can go into a terminal and with paru or yay you can install informat or you can also install it using Pacman if you have the chaotic Aur installed which I do so I could do a Pudu Pacman capital S informant and I believe informant is packaged in the chaotic Aur yes it is I don't currently have informant installed on this machine so I'll go ahead and install it now there are three different commands for informant the first one is informant check where it checks for the news I'm going to get an error because it's unable to read some information because some of the information the files that it needs to scan uh are protected right so sudu informant check and now I don't get the error but I still get the output there are 10 unread news items if I want to read the news sudu informant read and you can see I can read through this item here if I want to read the next one and the next one and the next one and then finally no to quit out of the read or if I want to I can just get a quick list of the news items so you can see the last 10 news items and it gives me a nice little uh summary you know the title of each news item now one thing to note when you install informant if I go back to the GitHub it does add a Pac-Man hook now what is a Pac-Man hook well when Pac-Man man runs an update of your system or when you install new programs a hook is triggered you can have these hooks these custom hooks you can create them yourself or in this case this informant program creates a hook for you where every time you do a update or an install using pcman it's going to run inat it's going to run an informat check I believe and check for new news if there's new news you have to read the news before it will actually allow you to run that install or upgrade trade so you know that's neat and that forces you of course to read the news now some people will not find that very pleasant to be forced to read the news for me you know I don't quite like that so I don't use informant but informant is there for those that do want to use it now one of the simplest ways to get the Arch Linux news without requiring any third-party programs to be installed without even needing a graphical environment you can actually do this in the TTY just using the standard curl command which is installed universally pretty much everywhere uh Arch linux.org we're going to curl this make sure we give it the prefix um https Arch linux.org and then we're going to pipe this into list and what this does it pulls down the source code from Arch linux.org the homepage and of course with list you just hit the space bar and you can scroll down of course you get all the HTML code and everything and you're like well this is not very useful ah but here's the thing all of the news items they have a specific tag they have a tag that is titled timestamp so all you need to do is hit the slash to search for string and search for timestamp and hit enter and there is the first news item it began with that tag so you can read this news item and if you want to immediately skip to the next news item hit in to go to the next instance of that timestamp string and there you go that is the next news item in again would take you get to the next news item pretty cool right that is not a very difficult thing to do so just curl Arch linux.org pipe it in list search for timestamp and then hit in to scroll through the news items and finally the last thing you could do to keep up to date on the Arch Linux news if I go back to the website Arch linux.org you will notice that there are rs feeds all over the place on the Arch Linux site for example if you want an RS feed with the latest updates to certain programs you can click on that subscribe to the RS feed for that but for us we want the news RS feed so latest news has the little RSS icon right here you can click on that you know get the URL and you could feed that into your RSS feed reader so if you use a terminal program like newsboat or you use emac as a RSS feeder you use something like aggregator you know if you're a KDE user maybe you use agregator with a k or whatever it is the RSP reader so you can always do that to get the latest Arch Linux news so there you have it a very quick video today but I think it's an important topic I think a lot of people don't take these announcements and these security announcements especially seriously for their Linux distributions and in this case we were talking specifically about Arch Linux today so hopefully you guys that are running Arch or arch-based distributions start paying a little closer attention to the news now 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