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dcraven

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Registered: 2008-04-27

Posts: 11

Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Hi,

First a little introduction I guess... I'm an Ubuntu refugee that thinks he's settled on Arch for the next little while. I've used Linux exclusively since September 8th, 2001 when I first installed Gentoo. Gentoo lived on my drives until approximately 3 years ago when I jumped to Debian, and shortly thereafter to Ubuntu.

I'm the type of user that loves package management systems (hence how I fell in love with portage, then apt when I got tired of compiling everything), but I do tend to maintain an always expanding library of apps and utils that I compile and install from source. Although Debian based distros do allow for this, it's a bit of a pain, and in some cases (more notably in Ubuntu) can actually "break" the package manager. In this respect, and others, I've grown tired of the rigidity of Ubuntu and wandered off to find something more flexible. Also, with each Ubuntu release there seems to be more "undoing" that I tend to do (many of these tasks apt doesn't like either) which I suppose is expected when a picky user like me uses a complete-upon-install-with-all-choices-made-on-your-behalf distro. This is not a knock against Ubuntu btw, it's a great distro for some, and it's great at what it does, it's just not so much for me anymore.

I've just spent the weekend messing around with Arch, and from what I can gather, this is the best of both worlds. It's primarily a binary-based package manager (pacman), but offers a great way to integrate my "roll your own" packages as well (ABS). There is an apparently thriving community and plenty of opportunity to contribute to it (AUR for one). Installation is quite easy, and allows the user to build the system to their liking from the ground up.

The point of this post is to give well deserved kudos to the development team and the contributing members of the Arch community. I don't yet have more to say about Arch given that I've used it for only a day and a half. From what I can see however, it's a well thought out and customizable distribution and I have a feeling it will be a great fit on my machines at home.

I hope that in time I'll be able to contribute as well. Thanks for making Linux fun for me again!

Cheers,
~djc

mangus

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From: Bologna, Italy

Registered: 2007-04-07

Posts: 276

Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Welcome to the community! forget debian systems , you are here to stay and you won't be back! :-)

finferflu

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From: Manchester, UK

Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Welcome to Arch!

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catwell

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From: Bretagne, France

Registered: 2008-02-20

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Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Welcome to the community! forget debian systems , you are here to stay and you won't be back! :-)

Don't forget them, for you'll probably have to work with them again on someone else's machine. It's a real pain everytime I have to, I can't help searching for rc.conf and so on.

Welcome to Arch, anyway !

Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,167

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Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Welcome to Arch!

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Ghost1227

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From: Omaha, NE, USA

Registered: 2008-04-21

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Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

I may be a bit late one this, but welcome aboard! You won't regret making the switch!

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gunnihinn

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From: Torreón, Mexico

Registered: 2007-10-28

Posts: 79

Re: Kudos to All Involved in Arch

Welcome to the Darch side.

...sorry.