Tell a friend about ArchLinux!

ody · 2002-09-24 12:37:12

I cant help but notice that AL hasnt really got out to the mass's yet and this is a shame.. so if you like AL tell your friends, family, dog, imaginary friend etc etc.. help get the word out!

sarah31 · 2002-09-24 15:07:58

oh don't worry i have been telling people about it. a link to the arch site appears in my sig on both linuxjunior and linuxnewbie. I promote it as a stable alternative over Gentoo.

Brophy · 2002-09-24 15:45:30

She even sent me a disc since I'm currently lacking bandwidth to d/l it myself. Thanks again sarah31.

Arielext · 2002-09-24 16:55:12

All working systems at home (except the file server) are running arch now
(party for the renderfarm, partly for my "I want to vorbis as many files simultaniously as possible" project >:))
Got a server running at school (see server forum!!) and told most of my linux-friendly friends about it. Most of them still fear it, since I'm using it

ody · 2002-09-25 08:39:12

All my boxs and even my laptop run AL.. apart from the router(simply cause Ive not got round to it yet)

dunbar · 2002-10-01 17:30:41

sarah31 wrote:

oh don't worry i have been telling people about it. a link to the arch site appears in my sig on both linuxjunior and linuxnewbie. I promote it as a stable alternative over Gentoo.

Hey there!

I can attest to sarahs sig.
I sometimes mention Arch, but only when circumstances warrant it: wouldn't do to tell certain people 'Arch Rocks' when they just figured out the trackball they were using was actually a mouse which had flipped over.
Not that I'd personally know the difference between mice and trackballs (so that's where those buttons are...).

dunbar · 2002-10-30 13:50:03

My thread over at LinuxNewbie about leaving Mandrake behind. Ok, so it isn't the greatest sales pitch in the world, but I try to keep it legitimately refreshed.
Unfortunately, my Linux needs are tapped out, aside from getting a home network connected to my Linux box. I'm still worndering if there is a network how-to on the internet anywhere which is A] current, and B] focused on just ethernet communications (one which avoids discussions about DSL, PPP, ftp, etc, etc.).

sinbsd · 2002-10-30 16:11:12

http://www.osnews.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=1102&t=1102

rasat · 2003-02-07 11:51:23

Here is a review of Arch Linux on AMLUG:
http://amlug.org/

rasat · 2003-02-18 03:35:49

jymbo wrote:

http://www.justlinux.com/forum/showthre … adid=90477

Thanks for the inspiring link.

sarah31 · 2003-02-18 06:24:40

jymbo, thanks for catching my back in that thread. just for linux drives me nuts sometimes especially when fools like sd willie slag without backing up their claim. i know he tried arch back in the .3 days, i think, but he prolly got tripped by the iso bug and then did not know or ask what to do next. since he is a main distro boy he wouldn't know the first thing about just how good arch is and is going to be. everyone at just linux buys the tripe that the gentoo people say. as far as i am concerned they can have their buggy POS gentoo and other distros the only distro for me is arch ...hands down.

sarah31 · 2003-02-18 17:26:56

beautiful! i could not have said it better at all but that is mostly because i have not been using linux very long nor do i have much in the way of a computer background (read no programming/scripting skills) or a full grasp of the intricacies of it. but i can tell you one thing i sure do appreciate the simplicity and cleanliness of arch. i have tried to explain this to other people but they just don't understand they look at the package list and make judgements that way or are so put off by the installer they go crying back to their guiland installers. then there is the gentoo zealots and other "experienced" user who look at arch's binary nature as automatically inferior to the source based distros. gentoo folks seem to make as much a deal of portage as the debian zealots do of apt. well this is the present baby and the present is becoming dominated by dependency solving package managers. i i know from using and reading the documents on portage that it is only a mediocre tool at that. it can break very easily and well apt and pacman just don't. (well apt can be broken).

as you know roaming around justlinux zealotry is the norm these days and it just plain bothers me. not to mention alot of people rarely listen to me anyway cuz i am a woman and women asre not supposed to know more than men in this field (harsh but true).

anyway thanks again for the backing and your amazing post here.

jlvsimoes · 2003-02-18 18:51:00

here is some nice reading on the subject

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Encourage-Women-Linux-HOWTO/

apeiro · 2003-02-18 19:03:17

Very well written, jymbo. Perhaps you should be the one writing a description of Arch for the About page. I didn't quite do it justice.

And thank you for understanding where I was coming from when I created Arch Linux. The goal was/is take all the good concepts from other distros (and BSDs -- ABS borrows most of its magic from the FreeBSD ports system) and package them together in one nice tidy distribution, with spots of our own unique innovations. Secondarily, I do not want to over-complicate Arch. We've all seen where that path goes, and it can get ugly.

I also work as a sysadmin/programmer, and I can honestly say that administrating an Arch Linux box is far easier than the plethora of RedHat boxes that I must take care of... In the company I work for, we now run Arch Linux exclusively on our in-house servers, and it's a breeze to manage. Other production servers of ours still need to run RH for other reasons, and they take 2-3 times as long to perform the same given functions (updating to patch vulnerabilities, configuring, installing).

But Arch still needs to prove itself to the general public, and more than anything else, that takes time. Myself, I don't really care too much if people slag Arch or disagree with my views (everyone is entitled to their own, after all). All I know is that my boxes run smoother than ever, so the mission was a success.

rasat · 2003-02-19 04:11:33

jymbo wrote:

Arch doesn't make claims of being the best...and for a reason. Only the truly seasoned Linux users who have been down every road with virtually every distro can truly understand and appreciate the logic behind Arch.

This is very true.

tandycorp · 2010-01-15 00:41:49

I started using arch while I had only a 56k modem! I remember first reading the excellent install guide (in french), and I said to myself: this is so clear, so structured, so well written, theses guys can't have a bad distro! Then I started downloading the iso, which took 2 days (2 nights). But I only installed it months after that, so I needed to: 1. download the wvdial packages (dial up tool) by hand in windows for my modem that was not working 2. get online 3. UPDATE with my 56k! But all this work was worth it, I never regret it since !

sorry im not a native english speaker

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