Arch Linux

dh_swing

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Registered: 2007-05-16

Posts: 5

Nicely done!

Just wanted to take a minute to convey the "wow" feeling I experienced installing arch from a puppyos livecd http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ins … her_distro.

The ease with which a static build of pacman can be used to bootstrap the environment was simply brilliant.  Once chroot'd, installing the kernel, grub, xorg, kdemod,  nvidia, flash, jre took maybe 30 minutes (If I had found the Aria2 script by then, it would have taken 10).

After successful reboot, I df the root partition -- 125MB.  Are you kidding me!? A fully functional, minimal, i686 KDE desktop in 125MB?

Pacman rocks -- it rocks, rocks, rocks.  Sync with a repo, calculate a dependency tree, or perform a package search with any other tool and tell me there is better.  The minimalist nature, the native C design, the eschewing of dependencies, have all led to a damn useful tool in a wide variety of scenarios.  Keep it up!

To all whom contribute -- thanks and you are really on to something here.

Regards,

dh_swing

synthead

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Registered: 2006-05-09

Posts: 1,337

Re: Nicely done!

I agree!  A lot of other distros have strengths and weaknesses, but what it really comes down to is the package manager.  Pacman is always on the ball and gets rid of almost all the busy work.  Best of all, you can still do exactly what you want with your system if you want to tweak it without running into oddities. 

Notice every screenshot of Arch being vastly different?  Just shows how easy it is to do things

KerowynM

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Registered: 2006-06-04

Posts: 78

Re: Nicely done!

I installed arch much the same way, except I did it from Gentoo.

Easily the simplest linux install I've ever seen, unless you count burning a liveCD.

I tried to install off of an arch CD once, and it didn't take   That was back around Wombat tho.