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#1 2005-02-17 23:02:44
- xtemp0rized
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just praise
just wanted to compliment all the people who contribute to this distro and the help forums. Arch has everything I've been looking for -- a good package manager, up to date packages, and a philosophy of building lean systems -- without requiring me to spend a lot of time compiling from source. thank you all.
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#2 2005-02-18 00:08:11
- beniro
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Re: just praise
Ummm...yeah!!!!!!! 
I second the motion.
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#3 2005-02-18 01:02:13
- stonecrest
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Re: just praise
Arch has everything I've been looking for -- a good package manager, up to date packages, and a philosophy of building lean systems
Mention that it's i686 optimized and will never require you to upgrade your OS and then you've hit them all 
It certainly is the perfect little distro.
Welcome aboard.
I am a gated community.
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#4 2005-02-18 15:33:24
- phrakture
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#5 2005-02-22 04:05:05
- mmccaskill
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Re: just praise
I switched from Gentoo. I've been using Arch for 3 days now and love it way more than Gentoo. I never realized how much time I wasted compiling and waiting with Gentoo. What I find interesting is that my programs, system, everything....seem to run faster than in Gentoo.
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#6 2005-03-10 18:26:19
- Shopko
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Re: just praise
I switched from Gentoo. I've been using Arch for 3 days now and love it way more than Gentoo. I never realized how much time I wasted compiling and waiting with Gentoo. What I find interesting is that my programs, system, everything....seem to run faster than in Gentoo.
I found the same thing. I have an Athlon XP, and it seems like compiling everything for that specific processor really didn't give me any more performance than just plain i686.
Maybe it's also somewhat psychological, since packages get installed in 5 minutes rather than 5 hours. :mrgreen:
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#7 2005-03-12 07:49:34
- Atriqus
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Re: just praise
ArchLinux - the distro for gentoo refugees
=> Now known as jb
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#8 2005-03-12 08:37:37
- iphitus
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Re: just praise
boo.....
I never used gentoo, i went directly to the better option.
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#9 2005-03-13 00:05:37
- Wubbeneezer
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Re: just praise
I just got Arch properly configured for the first time last night, and I too am really digging it...
I've been using Linux about 6 months. Started with Fedora Core, have used many Debian variants (Knoppix, Kanotix, Mepis, Libranet), Slackware, and attempted Gentoo (no success yet). Like others have said the configurability and leanness of Arch are very attractive.
I'm a musician and I'm trying to do all of my recording under Linux (though I've still got an XP partition). I've had good luck with the Apt-enabled Planet CCRMA Fedora Core and Agnula DeMuDi distros, but I've wanted to build my own from scratch. Thanks to the presence of up-to date packages like Hydrogen (drum machine), Ardour (multitrack recorder), and JACK/qjackctl (low-latency multithread sound server) in the Arch repositories, I have a feeling this will be a lot of fun!
When all is said and done,
There's nothing left to say or do.
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