Arch Linux

alhobbel

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Registered: 2007-12-07

Posts: 1

A thank you to all Archlinux maintainers and contributors

Hi people,

I received a newer model laptop at work and decided to install Linux on it, since it came preinstalled with some newb OS (win something or other). I'm already a bit of a veteran with linux, and my favorite distribution has always been slackware. I have been following other distros though (like Ubuntu) but found them relatively untweakable. A while back (while still in release 0.5 or so) I read about Archlinux, and since it was a relatively slow day at work, I decided to try something completely new and decided upon Archlinux.

So far, I'm extremely happy with this choice. Some unexpected things happened (which is to be expected of course), like having to manually install openssh which was a bit of a surprise, but so far I've been able to get almost everything working with the help of the Wiki: X, KDE, touchpad, wifi with several network profiles (+ killswitch), vmware player, firefox + all the usual plugins, PPtP connection to work etc etc. and now everything 'just works'.

So here's a thank you to all the people involved in creating and contributing to the distro and it's knowledge base!

Kind regards,

Arnoud.

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,167

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Re: A thank you to all Archlinux maintainers and contributors

I'm not smart enough to program, or to be a developer, but I have contributed monetarily to Arch, and have put a lot of work into the Beginner's Guide and wiki.
I too am very thankful to the devs and community, and to be part of this excellent distro, by participating as much as I can.

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lang2

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Registered: 2006-02-10

Posts: 383

Re: A thank you to all Archlinux maintainers and contributors

Came from Slackware myself and havn't looked at any other distro for almost 2 yrs now. Arch is truely a blessing.