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Snowman

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From: Montreal, Canada

Registered: 2004-08-20

Posts: 5,212

Re: Arch-based Distros

Is Archie project  dead or abandoned?

Yes

caustic386

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Registered: 2009-02-22

Posts: 14

Re: Arch-based Distros

Sorry, know it's an old thread but I just found it.

Anybody looked into this yet?

http://www.knoppmyth.net/linhes.html

Apparently they're using Arch now.  Not released yet, but I'm curious if anyone has tried it out?  I tried myth on a debian box, and I hate to say it, but it just didn't feel ready for primetime.  VDPAU support was excellent, but everything besides that was a complete pain compared to XP/Vista.

Wintervenom

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Registered: 2008-08-20

Posts: 1,011

Re: Arch-based Distros

There's Borderless, but I think everyone is mad at those guys.

Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Arch-based Distros

Is there an Arch based distro for prosessors lower than i686? I'd like to get some of my older computers running arch. I've heard of Low Arch but it seems to be abonded as of now.

Using Ubuntu command line installs on them just makes me miss Arch. >_>

Yep

http://code.google.com/p/archlinux-i586/
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=65880
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=489075

venky80

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Registered: 2007-05-13

Posts: 1,002

Re: Arch-based Distros

i hope someone makes a suse studio kind of stuff for Arch....that would be killer

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lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

Posts: 5,000

Re: Arch-based Distros

Faunos

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froli

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From: Germany

Registered: 2008-06-17

Posts: 455

Re: Arch-based Distros

It hasn't been released yet but it should be interesting... http://www.chakra-project.org/

Is that distro using yast?

It's KDEmod using Shaman on Arch. I believe that it's using pacman.

Yeah, it's using pacman.

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dolby

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From: 1992

Registered: 2006-08-08

Posts: 1,581

Re: Arch-based Distros

Theres also gnuffy http://gnuffy.chaotika.org/index.php/Main_Page
Probably the most successful and interesting than all the other ones.

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Ranguvar

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Registered: 2008-08-12

Posts: 2,549

Re: Arch-based Distros

Gnuffy seems interesting (it sounds like an anarchist development model, which would be interesting to observe and see how well it works), but does anyone know what exactly makes their heirarchy (or lack of it) different? How are things done in Gnuffy in regards to development? They don't seem to have many details.

bwh1969

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Registered: 2008-01-05

Posts: 151

Re: Arch-based Distros

I am currently using Chakra live on 5 machines.  I am running it off of a usb on three machines and an SD card in two.  i can honestly say I love it.  I did put a post in the forums there on how to merge your system overlay with your mods overlay when it becomes big enough. Running it this way has it running out of RAM, and it takes about 50% of the normal disk space.  You can also just install it.  In this way, it basically just becomes Arch with the Chakra kdemods.

It booted to the desktop and worked wifi out of the box on my IBM thinkpad, and my asus eee-pc 701.

I had to use ndiswrapper on my asus eee-box and acer aspire laptop.  The latter could have used the b43 driver with fwcutter... I think.  I also had to install the sis driver for my video, as it defaulted to vesa and the screen would not blank properly.  It looked a LOT sharper with the sis driver as well.

There is source code for the ralink driver in my eee-box, but it was flaky so I just went with ndiswrapper,  As of alpha2, ndiswrapper is included in the live cd so you only need your win driver.