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Where does the name "Arch" Linux originally come from?
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My non-educated guess:
archetype
1. An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' ... 'Dracula' ... 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' ... the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).
2. An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
3. In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Archtype
Last edited by nbd (2015-12-06 02:11:42)
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It comes from "arch-nemesis" meaning "primary"...
http://osdir.com/ml/linux.arch.general/ … 00253.html
EDIT: better source link.
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That's 3 months after he got hacked... can we really trust that source?
New question: why doesn't phrak love us? He hasn't posted here in years. Did he not see the humor in "Arch Overlard"?
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New question: why doesn't phrak love us? He hasn't posted here in years. Did he not see the humor in "Arch Overlard"?
Maybe he is amongst us, just with a different username? ¬_¬
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Maybe he is amongst us, just with a different username? ¬_¬
The thought crossed my mind, but how could you resist basking in the glory of being called the Overlard? The only reason to hide would be to avoid a dagger in the back from Allan.
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He is too busy lifting weights to be of any concern...
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Arch Enemy
One of my favorite metal bands :-)
"Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime"
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Just did a quick wiki search, I knew it! I was a CRUX user years back and Arch reminded me of a distro I had used before, I just couldn't remember which one. Apparently, according to wiki anyway, Arch was inspired by CRUX. For those of you who don't know, here is the wiki article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRUX
Besides Arch and Gentoo, it was the fastest, leanest distro I have every used.
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@sevendogs,
If only you had used Arch in the initscripts days. It even had an rc.conf like CRUX!
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@sevendogs,
If only you had used Arch in the initscripts days. It even had an rc.conf like CRUX!
I remember rc.conf from CRUX! Syntax was basically: (service1, service2, etc), correct? BSD style init, very simple. The new systemd seems easy enough but my admins at work hate it. I have never administered large numbers of Linux boxes so can't speak to what systemd does, or doesn't do, for them.
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I remember rc.conf from CRUX! Syntax was basically: (service1, service2, etc), correct? BSD style init, very simple.
Yeah, it was quite similar. I haven't used CRUX myself, so I don't know how much alike they were.
The new systemd seems easy enough but my admins at work hate it. I have never administered large numbers of Linux boxes so can't speak to what systemd does, or doesn't do, for them.
Well, I am not a fan of systemd either . But let's not derail the thread with systemd discussion. It tends to get quite animated.
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Good point
"Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Teach a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime"
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