A thank-you to the Arch developers and contributors

Shopko · 2005-03-10 17:49:43

I have been using some form of Linux for the past 13 years, starting with Slackware on floppies, and ending with Arch. Before Arch, I used Gentoo for almost two years.

Now that I have been using Arch for around six months, all I can say is thank you. Packages are kept up to date, configuration files are well documented and simple to edit, and pacman has not once hosed anything on my system ('emerge --update world' on Gentoo was occasionally a painful experience).

Arch is fast, lightweight, and always up to date. I love it!

Thank you again to everyone contributing to the project. You're doing a wonderful job.

Oh, and I would also like to thank everyone here in the Arch community. These forums are friendly and helpful, which really does draw people to the distribution!

phrakture · 2005-03-10 17:53:10

hooray!

Shopko · 2005-03-10 17:56:36

LOL! I just realized that the above post was only my second post here in the forums. :mrgreen:

I guess this means two things:

1) Arch is simple enough for me to set up and use that I didn't have to come to the forums and ask for help.
2) I really need to come here more often and help other people out.

phrakture · 2005-03-10 18:15:56

Shopko wrote:

1) Arch is simple enough for me to set up and use that I didn't have to come to the forums and ask for help.

surprisingly, that happens often - you get post #1 from someone who says "I've been using arch for 2 years now and suddly have problem X"

skoal · 2005-03-10 19:32:29

Shopko wrote:

I have been using some form of Linux for the past 13 years, starting with Slackware on floppies, and ending with Arch.

Dang, you sound like my twin brother. It sounds like we share similiar experiences, and in the "end"...pacman + independently operating package sets = slim and trim with washboard stomach and 28 inch "guns"...

Shopko · 2005-03-11 06:21:01

skoal wrote:

Dang, you sound like my twin brother. It sounds like we share similiar experiences...

Cool! There weren't very many slackers back then, so it's nice to hear from another.

It is amazing how painful it was to download and write 28 floppy images of Slackware, just to get home and find that one of the floppies had bad sectors. Downloading and burning a single CD of Arch is so much more pleasant.

skoal · 2005-03-11 06:40:28

Shopko wrote:

It is amazing how painful it was to download and write 28 floppy images of Slackware, just to get home and find that one of the floppies had bad sectors.

lmbo. You think that's painful? Surely someone around here in Arch remembers listening to the old screeching noises coming from the analog modem "handset", running at 300 baud. I remember jingling the modem handset on the 2 styrofoam receivers to get a "good" connection. What the hell were those old protocols called? I remember "Kermit", but not the others...

Oh yeah, and magnetic tape drives. I accidentally threw in an unmarked computer tape into my car stereo system deck once, thinking it was from "Judas Priest". For a second there, I thought JP came out with a new song...

kpiche · 2005-03-11 08:09:13

xmodem, ymodem, and zmodem?

I remember the 300 baud modems. I used to "overclock" mine to 360 (some wierd number like that) for "faster" connections!

sarah31 · 2005-03-11 11:34:24

Shopko wrote:

Oh, and I would also like to thank everyone here in the Arch community. These forums are friendly and helpful, which really does draw people to the distribution!

You obviously haven't crossed paths with me. Most people find me to be a grump old sod.

lanrat · 2005-03-11 11:44:00

It's because you're a taboo now

Dusty · 2005-03-11 17:00:43

Don't be silly Sarah, we love you. We adore you. We worship you. We... think you're grumpy old sod...

Dusty

sarah31 · 2005-03-11 18:08:34

Rowr! Snarl!

Dusty · 2005-03-11 18:42:13

... but you're *our* grumpy old sod. 8)

sarah31 · 2005-03-11 18:44:32

RRRRRRRR

Shopko · 2005-03-16 19:17:40

sarah31 wrote:

You obviously haven't crossed paths with me. Most people find me to be a grump old sod.

Heh. From one of your other posts:

sarah31 wrote:

No matter what distro you use the time will come that you have to do some serious tinkering. If they are not the type to tinker even in Windows then they will never get used to Linux.

You're not a "grump old sod". People just don't like to hear what needs to be said sometimes.

Besides, I'm not even a grump old sod. I'm just old.

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