Have a good time!
Yes. This is the most important step.
]]>Thank you very much for your help guys. I'm pretty sure you will be seeing me in a few hours on the forum with a new Arch system. I will be sure to let you guys know how its goes and how I like it. Hopefully I can help out the community as soon as I get on my feet. Thanks again.
]]>I am 98% going to install Arch (not Ark :-p) Linux on my desktop when I get home form work. What kind of installation time am I looking at? Do I need to make a cup of coffee (or 12), or is it going to be somewhat quick (since I'm assuming its NOT built from source on install)
*edit* Ark Linux looks like its for kids :-/, sorry for relating the two, haha
]]>OK, so Arch and Ark are different distros? Are they related (like, Ark for Regular Users, Arch for Advanced), or is it maintained by a complete different group?
Not related, and not pronounced the same - think "Golden Arches" when you say Arch, and think "Raiders of the Lost Ark" (or Noah if that suits you) when you say Ark. The similarity is that they are linux distros with names starting with the letter A - beyond that (as far as I know) there's no association at all.
]]>Most of us use precompiled packages, which are handeled by pacman (PACkage MANager), one of the best available (IMHO)
You can compile if you want to, but 95% of time you don't have to.
So you can compile you kernel, recompile applications and so on.
Try it... there quite few ex-gentoo users around
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