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matthinckley

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From: Oklahoma, USA

Registered: 2006-02-16

Posts: 7

Hello Everyone

Hello, my name is Matt, and I just switched from Ubuntu to Arch.

I have to say, I haven't been using linux that long.. maybe a little over a year.  I started with Fedora 3, then FC4 and then Ubuntu, now Arch, and I love it.  Way faster on my computer, no bloat, and this Pacman is awesome, The only thing I miss from ubuntu is the administration menu.. ( I use Gnome by the way).  But otherwise I just want to say hello and thanks to everyone involved with Arch for creating a great, clean, fast distro.

Thanks and hello again to everyone

Matt

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tomk

Forum Fellow

From: Ireland

Registered: 2004-07-21

Posts: 9,839

Re: Hello Everyone

And hello to you - welcome to Arch.

elasticdog

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From: Washington, USA

Registered: 2005-05-02

Posts: 995

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Re: Hello Everyone

Welcome aboard matey!  I too switched from Ubuntu to Arch and have never looked back...

Moparx

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Registered: 2006-02-05

Posts: 136

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Re: Hello Everyone

Welcome to the Arch community

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lanrat

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From: Poland

Registered: 2003-10-28

Posts: 1,274

Re: Hello Everyone

...and another soul in our collection :-D ;-)

Welcome to Hell

PS. Just kidding. Welcome and enjoy.

jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

Posts: 634

Re: Hello Everyone

Make sure you have the "unstable" repo enabled (uncommented) in /etc/pacman.conf !

pacman -S gnome-system-tools

That will install some of them at least, you'll possibly find some other admin apps in pacman as well...

matthinckley

Member

From: Oklahoma, USA

Registered: 2006-02-16

Posts: 7

Re: Hello Everyone

cool thanks, I hadn't enabled the unstable repo.. is there a way to browse available packages that are in the repos?

Thanks

Matt

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512MB PC3200 DDR-400
nVidia GeForceFX 5200 128MB
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stonecrest

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From: Boulder

Registered: 2005-01-22

Posts: 1,190

Re: Hello Everyone

You can do it right through the archlinux.org website. Or, if you enable the repo, you can do pacman -Sl unstable.

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