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#1 2009-01-14 22:44:57

Cotton
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The good old days...

Just came across this blast from the past that may interest newer Archers:

http://web.archive.org/web/200203280434 … linux.org/

Further material here:

http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.archlinux.org

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#2 2009-01-14 23:31:28

Misfit138
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Re: The good old days...

The beautiful simplicity of the original installation guide is inspiring!
0.2 Truly was crude and beautiful.

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#3 2009-01-14 23:37:46

Roberth
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Re: The good old days...

To bad I joined the waggon so late....


Use the Source, Luke!

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#4 2009-01-14 23:50:12

sand_man
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Re: The good old days...

Wow
Arch has come a loooooooooooooooooooooooooooooong way smile


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#5 2009-01-14 23:54:10

Xyne
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Re: The good old days...

Does anyone else find it eerie that the entire internet is archived?


My Arch Linux StuffForum EtiquetteCommunity Ethos - Arch is not for everyone

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#6 2009-01-15 00:02:20

X/ax
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Re: The good old days...

Gzz @ archlinux for being simple back then and now.
I kinda like the ./installworld /mnt command out there, any chance of that coming back? smile

I kinda feel bad for asking, but is apeiro still project leader / in charge / in the devs room somewhere?
There's so many people these days, and I won't pretend I even know who's devving here (albeit I owe him/her and them a great os thanks)

@Xyne:
No, I love archives, great way of spending my future in the past and thinking about how it was...


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#7 2009-01-15 02:25:37

fukawi2
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Re: The good old days...

I like the old logo....  *contemplates changing my av...*

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#8 2009-01-15 03:05:25

peets
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Re: The good old days...

if you search through the forum archives, you will find this thread popped up a few times.

Exercise left to the reader.

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#9 2009-01-15 03:29:39

Ranguvar
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Re: The good old days...

Xyne wrote:

Does anyone else find it eerie that the entire internet is archived?

If only it really was. But you'd need stupendous amounts of space to store all of that... even storing all text would be cool if it was indeed done. The Internet Archive is far from complete, but it's very nice for checking main pages of major sites a long time ago.

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#10 2009-01-15 03:32:13

hk2717
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Re: The good old days...

it is BLACK! wow!

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#11 2009-01-15 03:41:12

Ranguvar
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Re: The good old days...

/me wishes the Arch sites and forum were still dark, perhaps with a pattern or gradient with white text ,rather than an overall blind-you-at-30 white theme... Oh well, there's always Stylish.

Last edited by Ranguvar (2009-01-15 03:41:32)

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#12 2009-01-15 09:34:29

ArchArael
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Re: The good old days...

big_smile wow!!!

Linux Kernel 2.4.18
bash 2.05a
vim 6.1

Thank you for this topic.

BTW the old logo rulez. Great distro. Love it.

Last edited by ArchArael (2009-01-15 09:38:04)

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#13 2009-01-15 09:58:03

tomk
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Re: The good old days...

X/ax wrote:

I kinda feel bad for asking, but is apeiro still project leader / in charge / in the devs room somewhere?

No / No / Yes  - see here.

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#14 2009-01-15 10:54:50

dav7
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Re: The good old days...

I actually did this a while ago, heh. I can't remember if it was my own idea or gleaned from somewhere else.

At any rate, all we need now is for someone who shares my vision of NEVAR DELETING TEH FILEZ, EVAR, to find an early ISO we can play with. tongue

(Sadly, none of the mirrors listed work, not even ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/archlinux - despite containing a rather uplifting set of directories, they're all old and point to nonexistant folders in /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/ sad)

-dav7

Last edited by dav7 (2009-01-15 11:05:11)


Windows was made for looking at success from a distance through a wall of oversimplicity. Linux removes the wall, so you can just walk up to success and make it your own.
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Reinventing the wheel is fun. You get to redefine pi.

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#15 2009-01-15 12:52:41

aglarond
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Re: The good old days...

Thanks for the link. It's been a long time since I've seen install instructions that said, basically, "Ok. Now go grab a kernel and build it." It kind of reminds me of a simple Gentoo install.

-mS

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#16 2009-01-15 14:13:37

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Re: The good old days...

dav7 wrote:

I actually did this a while ago, heh. I can't remember if it was my own idea or gleaned from somewhere else.

At any rate, all we need now is for someone who shares my vision of NEVAR DELETING TEH FILEZ, EVAR, to find an early ISO we can play with. tongue

(Sadly, none of the mirrors listed work, not even ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/archlinux - despite containing a rather uplifting set of directories, they're all old and point to nonexistant folders in /pub/linux/distributions/archlinux/ sad)

-dav7

I can't give you 0.1, but perhaps a copy of 0.4 would make you feel better?


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#17 2009-01-15 14:16:34

Zariel
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Re: The good old days...

My first foray into linux netted a 0.4 arch disk, when i didnt even know what X was tongue

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#18 2009-01-15 14:31:28

peart
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Re: The good old days...

Zariel wrote:

My first foray into linux netted a 0.4 arch disk, when i didnt even know what X was tongue

I also discovered Arch at version 0.4, just 1 or 2 days before 0.5 came out.  The funny thing is that I didn't yet comprehend the rolling release thing, so I downloaded the 0.5 CD and did a complete reinstall big_smile

Check out the forums from back then.  There were 4 users online!

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#19 2009-01-15 15:18:05

SiC
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Re: The good old days...

When I swapped to Arch, I wasn't even thinking about rolling release, the thought had never even crossed my mind; the only thing I cared about was an i686 optimised distribution. Ironically, it's now the only thing I look for in a distribution.

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#20 2009-01-15 21:36:00

Dieter@be
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Re: The good old days...

The links are dead sad


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#21 2009-01-15 23:44:09

tigim
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Re: The good old days...

Misfit138 wrote:

The beautiful simplicity of the original installation guide is inspiring!
0.2 Truly was crude and beautiful.

It...it...

It's beautiful.

/me wishes the Arch sites and forum were still dark, perhaps with a pattern or gradient with white text ,rather than an overall blind-you-at-30 white theme... Oh well, there's always Stylish.

Actually, I adore the layout of the Arch sites. Clean and simple, and bright. (Dark themes are ok, but I usually like lighter ones better.) Also: blech, gradients.

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#22 2009-01-16 15:23:13

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Re: The good old days...

X/ax wrote:

I kinda feel bad for asking, but is apeiro still project leader / in charge / in the devs room somewhere?

He does show up in the forums now and then. I think he posts almost twice as much as skoal does.

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#23 2009-02-07 02:43:54

LTSmash
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Re: The good old days...

*  Linux Kernel 2.4.18
    * XFree86 4.2.0
    * glibc 2.2.5
    * gcc 2.95.3
    * OpenSSH 3.1p1
    * Mozilla 0.9.9
    * WindowMaker 0.80.0
    * Vim 6.1
    * Reiserfsprogs 3.x.1b
    * devfsd 1.3.22
    * ... and more ...

OMG... I never got to use so old stuff... my first serious Linux installation was Kubuntu 6.06 xD


Proud Ex-Arch user.
Still an ArchLinux lover though.

Currently on Kubuntu 9.10

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#24 2009-02-09 00:49:50

TBomBM3879
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Re: The good old days...

That was back when XFree86 was still used. I never got to see that either, or any of that stuff lol.

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#25 2009-02-09 03:31:52

aglarond
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Registered: 2008-11-20
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Re: The good old days...

TBomBM3879 wrote:

That was back when XFree86 was still used. I never got to see that either, or any of that stuff lol.

I did. It was a pain in the butt, but I loved it. I was a BSD user, but I remember the sense of accomplishment I had when I compiled my first Linux kernel and then got an X session started. That was as far as I got, though, until I discovered Slackware in '94 or '95. I've been pretty much all Linux since then.

-ms

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