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chochem

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From: Denmark

Registered: 2008-03-02

Posts: 176

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Wikipedia article

I've taken the liberty of reordering and fleshing out the wikipedia article quite a bit. As I'm sure there are other contributors to the article (as well as more experienced and knowledgeable arch users) than me in here, please take a look and see if I've made any gross errors.

Major stuff:
- added a section on the AUR (formerly completely neglected - figured it was relevant seeing as it is sort-of-unique (?) to Arch)
- Collected various bits and pieces together and made a 'Installation' section'
- Fleshed out the design section (amongst other things with a very poignant Aaron Griffin quote, methinks)
- Took bits out of the introduction (too long) and placed them in the main article. Intro is now about the 'idea of Arch' plus 'short history of Arch'.
- rearranged the order of sections.

I haven't deleted anything (apart from a screenshot which seemed out of place - Arch doesn't have a default look - added an 'Archie' screenshot to the live cd section instead just to have a picture) so if you're a contributor you needn't worry/flame me.

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Last edited by chochem (2008-09-17 13:33:28)

fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: Wikipedia article

I changed a few things for better readability, but no content changes. The chronology seems a bit off to me though. 2007.08.1 is missing and the Core Dump seems wrong. I thought the versioning on it was simply 2008.04-RC, released on April 15. Although I'm not sure if that should be included at all, as it was not a final release and doesn't show up in the release list on Arch's homepage.

Mr.Elendig

#archlinux@freenode channel op

From: The intertubes

Registered: 2004-11-07

Posts: 3,528

Re: Wikipedia article

The 2008.03 and 2008.04 iso's are not official ones, and shuldn't be in the list in my opinion.

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Statix

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From: Hangzhou, China

Registered: 2008-02-16

Posts: 240

Re: Wikipedia article

I added Arch to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_dist … tributions
a while back. Someone moved it to the top. Alphabetical order ftw!

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Lord Illidan

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From: Malta

Registered: 2007-10-25

Posts: 248

Re: Wikipedia article

I added Arch to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_dist … tributions
a while back. Someone moved it to the top. Alphabetical order ftw!

Where's the Arch Logo?

Xyne

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Registered: 2008-08-03

Posts: 5,128

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Re: Wikipedia article

I added Arch to
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_dist … tributions
a while back. Someone moved it to the top. Alphabetical order ftw!

and yet, Pardus comes after Ubuntu.

Poor, poor Pardus.

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thayer

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From: Vancouver, BC

Registered: 2007-05-20

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Re: Wikipedia article

Where's the Arch Logo?

*ahem*

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fflarex

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Registered: 2007-09-15

Posts: 466

Re: Wikipedia article

Wow man, all you have to do to make things appear is clear your throat...