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Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Big thanks to package maintainers

You definitely hear it when packages are not working correctly, but don't really hear praises when they are working great, even though Arch works great in general.  If you can think of a package that is working great, well, exceptional... feel free to mention it.

Thanks Travis Willard for your audacious package.  It is working muy bueno.  Last Arch install it was buggy, but now has really replaced xmms.  Good work.

Cerebral

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From: Waterloo, ON, CA

Registered: 2005-04-08

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Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Heh - you're welcome for Audacious.  I picked that puppy up when it was still in AUR, and moved it through community to extra.  I enjoy the app greatly.  (edit - thinking about it, some other TU may have moved it to extra, then I grabbed it... or something.  I can't really remember, though I recall WillySilly being involved at one point or another)

Being a dev myself, I can definitely understand how those  people with many times the packages I maintain must be dedicated to arch - I thank you all too - you guys are awesome, and make Arch possible.

Anonymo

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Registered: 2005-04-07

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Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Cool, you joined one day after I did, yet you are a developer and I am an occasional poster

xterminus

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From: Tacoma, WA, USA, Earth, Sol, M

Registered: 2005-10-30

Posts: 93

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

fcron is maintained by brain0.  PKGBUILD quality is excellent!

Kudos!

scarney

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From: Wisconsin, US

Registered: 2006-07-11

Posts: 173

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

cheers! package maintainers

and a special cheer to all the devs, and every1 else that make arch possible. this is such great distro!

Cheers!

McQueen

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From: Arizona

Registered: 2006-03-20

Posts: 387

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Where's the staff's holiday wishlists? Santa might use Arch....

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japetto

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From: Chicago, IL US

Registered: 2006-07-02

Posts: 183

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

I support this thread. Good job devs!!!

lucke

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From: Poland

Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

o/

mr.MikyMaus

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From: disabled

Registered: 2006-03-31

Posts: 285

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Good job guys! Arch is the most functional-and-yet-bleeding-edge Linux I've ever seen. And I bet I won't find any other such distribution.

Even Arch's configuration is far more simple than others I've tried since I don't have to configure much. Lots of things work just out-of-the-box with no more work than pacman -S

And that's what I call really good work. Keep it up guys!

-miky

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

and mostly now that willysilly left and hundreds of packages at community and aur are left unmaintained. cheers

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bpisciot

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From: Flyover Land

Registered: 2004-12-16

Posts: 78

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Let me join in the praise party.  I updated a couple of machines recently.  Both required over 500 MB of packages.  As the downloads were running, I thought, these things don't make themselves.  It requires the hard work of some very dedicated people.  I, for one, owe a huge debt to the devs and package maintainers.  I hope my skills improve enough some day so I can make a contribution to this wonderful community.

Bob P.

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ToastedToad

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From: Sequim, WA

Registered: 2006-03-08

Posts: 79

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Way to be dev team and package maintainers!!!!

Cotton

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From: Cornwall, UK

Registered: 2004-09-17

Posts: 568

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

Excellent work devs - many thanks for your hard work.

picpak

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Registered: 2006-12-02

Posts: 89

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

I've gotta thank iphitus for his soundmixer package. Thanks to him, there are no apps that can't play or record sound at the same time, just like in Windows -- something I never had in Ubuntu. Heck, if it weren't for that, I probably would've went back to Ubuntu. Thank you so much.

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manmower

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-11-17

Posts: 100

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

You definitely hear it when packages are not working correctly, but don't really hear praises when they are working great, even though Arch works great in general.

QFT. As a relatively new Linux user (a few months) I've had a few issues here and there but nearly all of them have been solved (and more often than not were due to my own idiocy). Even though Arch seems to have an image of being for more advanced users, its simplicity, stability and up to date packages are what made it the first distro ever to last longer than a couple of weeks on any of my computers. So to all involved in making this possible, a big thank you!

Kenetixx

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Registered: 2006-09-09

Posts: 258

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Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

SPecial thanks goes out to the Arch 64 Devs , it is definetly the most stable 64 bit linux i have used, good work fellas.

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Izuil

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-10-07

Posts: 162

Re: Big thanks to package maintainers

I am just as manmower a fairly new linux user and i totally love arch for it's up to date packages and it's simplicity.
Even though I'm not an advanced linux user i can well manage in arch!
Love you guys!