Comments on: ArchLinux — smooth and cuddly

By: Mayol

Mayol — Sat, 05 Mar 2011 23:11:39 +0000

I have hard time finding useful blog posts, because there is so much crap on the internet now, but this is really interesting stuff. Thanks a lot for posting!

By: Meeku

Meeku — Wed, 26 Jan 2011 09:20:32 +0000

Racists on the Arch Linux Mailing List:

I joined the Arch Linux public general mailing list and posted a free opensource FOSS font for coders to use, Rail Model font. I was accused of spamming and trolling by certain developers there. These were just excuses from them as underneath they had a racist attitude to my email address for the mailing list:
hare_krsna_hare_krsna_krsna_krsna_hare_hare_hare_rama_hare_rama_rama_rama_hare_hare -at- …..

Thus when I tried to defend against their accusations I was banned from there, no discussion nothing.

By: Lee

Lee — Tue, 12 May 2009 20:59:08 +0000

Windows, natch.

By: denny

denny — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 23:27:36 +0000

i like it a lot. it takes me a whole day to make everything works, including X stuffs. but i learn a lot from that.
now, i can have everything works in an hour.

i especially like the rc.conf which replace tedious works in other distro.

it’s fun way to learn linux.

too bad, i cant find a way install it to my old thinkpad600x and travelmate507dx to replace my outdated debian there…
(kernel panic on both system)

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:13:08 +0000

For me, the rolling release system means it has never had to be reinstalled in 3 years of use – yet it is more up to date than Vista! And considerably faster.
It runs on Pentium2s upwards (>200 MHz) and can be maintained by anyone with minimal linux experience.

By: Laurent

Laurent — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 13:37:27 +0000

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=25718

You should check this tool called Yaourt, developped by Wain of Arclinux France!

USAGE: yaourt [OPTION...]
example:
$ yaourt [regexp] : search for matching strings (with *) and allows to install it
$ yaourt -S [packagename]: download package from repository, and fallback on AUR
$ yaourt -Ss [regexp] : search remote repositories and AUR for matching strings
$ yaourt -Syu –aur : upgrade system + packages from aur
$ yaourt -Sybu –aur : upgrade by building PKGBUILD + packages from aur
$ yaourt -Syu –devel : upgrade all cvs/svn/mercurial packages (from aur)

By: Zig

Zig — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 10:58:37 +0000

I vote for Arch also, despite to the fact, that I had some problems with network and soundcard after kernel upgrade.
But next kernel release solved it perfectly.
This distro is really easy to install,fast and stable.
So I suggest for everybody to give a try!

By: holytrousers

holytrousers — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 16:06:01 +0000

Every OS has bugs, especially one of themâ€¦
Interesting, wich one them ???