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ataylor

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Registered: 2008-04-10

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A Fedora convert's thoughts

Hi guys,

I started off on Ubuntu, went over to Fedora, and then decided I actually wanted to learn something... I came across Arch. Its bloody brilliant. Installed on my Thinkpad T30 without a hitch, got KDEmod and all the necessary hardware and daemons running by using the excellent documentation you guys have, and am not missing Fedora/Ubuntu at all. pacman is annoyingly fast (I'm used to switching windows to do something else while yum gets its act together) and the distro itself seems fast... and stable. Boots at least twice as fast as Fedora did.

Probably the best thing is the stuff that I am learning. Never knew what rc.conf was (or most of the stuff in /etc for that matter), or how networking worked, or how to configure X properly. Learning something new everyday As well as the fact that it feels like I control the operating system, something that some of the more friendlier Linux distros/Windows don't have.

So thankyou and keep up the good work

synthead

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From: Seattle

Registered: 2006-05-09

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Re: A Fedora convert's thoughts

Glad to see you like Arch, and welcome! 

I completely agree with you as far as the learning thing goes.  Even though I've used numerous distros in the past, I didn't know all too much about Linux until I started using Arch.  It puts aside all the distro-specific complications and gives you something very unix-ey to play with.  So you're not beating around the bush with a do-everything package manager or wizards, you're focusing on Linux as a whole (and in a way that it's easy to learn)

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finferflu

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Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: A Fedora convert's thoughts

Hello and welcome home

Be aware that rc.conf is a way of configuring the system closer to BSD than Linux.

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dyscoria

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Registered: 2008-01-10

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Re: A Fedora convert's thoughts

I'm a fedora convert aswell. My first impressions of Fedora were 'wow its pretty' but after a few weeks the GUI's got on my nerves as they slowed certain things down that i'd rather get done faster (e.g. boot, installing packages). The login screen was very nice too, but there's a limit to the number of GUI's i can put up with . Nevertheless, it is a great distro. It was never as buggy for me as it was meant to be for others.

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Roberth

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From: Norway

Registered: 2007-01-12

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Re: A Fedora convert's thoughts

Well teh things that make Arch som "bloody briliant" for me also, is that you can much more easily, but at the same time more advanced configure a huge number aspects in the OS. And pacman, it's fast simple and great tool to use.

Good luck with your days on arch.

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B-Con

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From: Frisco, TX

Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: A Fedora convert's thoughts

Hello and welcome home

Be aware that rc.conf is a way of configuring the system closer to BSD than Linux.

Linux doesn't really have any official way of doing it. Both the rc.conf and the rc.d-symlink methods are borrowed from other Unix systems.

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