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switch86

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 24

Yet Another Hello Post

Don't know if there's any other place to put this, but...

[RAMBLING]

I thought I'd say hi. Barring a severe  problem with Arch that causes me to say "screw this" and install another distro - a rarity if all I've read about Arch is true - I should be posting around here on occasion. I've been a relatively loyal Fedora user for quite some time but F9 is an inexcusable mess and I fear Fedora has jumped the shark - it breaks too much and for my Linux installs I want something that doesn't bust with every update (to be fair, F8 is very solid and hasn't broken on me yet barring those times it was my obvious fault).

I first tried Arch in a virtual machine a few weeks ago as a quest for picking a distro for a desktop box I've just "reacquired." I wobbled between Slack, CentOS, Debian Etch, and Arch, but eventually picked Arch because I like the "Arch way" and the KISS install. It's been fun getting it online so far and has been relatively trouble-free. I'm probably going to need some help getting my ATI Radeon working with the Catalyst drivers, and I've already posted about odd memory caching behavior, but those are topics for other threads.

So, I got back my "old" desktop with a Pentium 4, 512 MB memory, AGP ATI Radeon, and 80GB hard drive and, once I was done salvaging parts from the boneyard, now have 1GB of memory and two 80GB hard drives.

With some help from dyndns, I plan on setting up a few services on the box for my private use (takes a breath): SSH, Samba file and Print, maybe NFS for the other Linux boxes in the house, FTPS with VSFTPD (secure remote backups), Apache with SSL (I aim at a private wiki for keeping myself organized), Webmin, Nagios or MRTG (or some other similar software), maybe DNS caching for my LAN, and, of course, some general workstation use (browsing, e-mail, everyday stuff) - that'll be nice considering that my main desktop "needs" Windows for certain software (ahem... games). And anything else that comes up along the winding road.

I'm thoroughly impressed with Arch so far. It's fast, simple, and seems to just work (barring the X configuration issue, which is unfortunately not altogether an unforeseen potentiality with any distro).

[/RAMBLING]

So, hello.

(sorry to ramble.)

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

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Registered: 2004-11-07

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Re: Yet Another Hello Post

Don't know if there's any other place to put this, but...

The official 'Hello everyone' thred

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Evil #archlinux@freenode channel op and general support dude.
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switch86

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Registered: 2008-08-25

Posts: 24

Re: Yet Another Hello Post

Oops. Didn't see that thread. Sorry about overlooking that.