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arooaroo

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Cactus's Introduction to Arch

OMG! Has any one seen the article Cactus wrote on his blog? Let's not mince words - it's fsckin' brilliant! Nice one!

http://cactuswax.net/blog/articles/2007 … eview.html

I've just dugg too.

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Mr Green

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

8)  ...

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bones

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Scale of 1 to 10.
A big fat 10  :shock:

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

heh. thanks roo.
*blushes*

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gradgrind

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Indeed a nice summary/overview - it should find it's way into the main documentation.

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Mr Green

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

I agree, even a huge link from main page

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Pablo_Escobar

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

distrowatch caught it to
2 thumbs up

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lucke

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Arr, shouldn't it be Quick Custom (not Customer) Installation (near the top)?

And sentence "especially if you are using to compiling software yourself" doesn't seem right to my puny self, either.

Yarr, nice review altogether.

cactus

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

thanks lucke. Fixed.

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"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍

lucke

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

After giving it another glance I noticed some other spelling errors, such as "(I can) downloaded", "TUs use the system to manager" and "often times", which ought to be written together. Khkh, possibly there's even more, but I truly never intended to be a spelling police ;-)

scarney

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

excellent!

i guess this is one way to get folks to ur blog, lol, kidding i am!

seriously, nicely done.

Snarkout

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Is run level 6 really shutdown?  I would have thought it was reboot, but I can't recall using init 6 (or telinit 6) for years.

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RedShift

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

0 is halt
6 is reboot

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lucke

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

And generally shutdown encompasses both.

cactus

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Fixed.
Thanks for the corrections guys.

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"Be conservative in what you send; be liberal in what you accept." -- Postel's Law
"tacos" -- Cactus' Law
"t̥͍͎̪̪͗a̴̻̩͈͚ͨc̠o̩̙͈ͫͅs͙͎̙͊ ͔͇̫̜t͎̳̀a̜̞̗ͩc̗͍͚o̲̯̿s̖̣̤̙͌ ̖̜̈ț̰̫͓ạ̪͖̳c̲͎͕̰̯̃̈o͉ͅs̪ͪ ̜̻̖̜͕" -- -̖͚̫̙̓-̺̠͇ͤ̃ ̜̪̜ͯZ͔̗̭̞ͪA̝͈̙͖̩L͉̠̺͓G̙̞̦͖O̳̗͍

Snarkout

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Great review, BTW, you nailed the reasons I love arch so much.

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ozar

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

Nice review Cactus... one more digg now in place!   

http://digg.com/linux_unix/Arch_Linux_mini_review

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japetto

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

I am not one to read blogs, but that was a great read/review. 

Snarkout

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

It's now on the front page of osnews.com - very cool (assuming it doesn't damage cactus' bandwith or wallet)!

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Dusty

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

extraneous discussion split to here:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=28638

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deficite

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Re: Cactus's Introduction to Arch

'Tis an example of our excellent forum staff. Thanks Dusty!

I'm going to add just one more "Thank you" to cactus upon the story being placed on OSNews. Short, and to the point. I'm sure we'll probably get some people to start using Arch because of your review.