Arch Linux

axelgenus

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 100

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Suggestions

Some weeks ago I came across Arch... it's really a wonderful distro but it misses some important things that makes it unusable for me:

1 - I make an extensive use of suspension and in Arch I didn't found a way to make it work either on my desktop or on my laptop (suspend works... resume doesn't).

2 - I have a Core2 Duo but I can make no use of Arch64 for it misses many packages and others are out-dated.

3 - I'm a developer and I NEED native virtualization (Xen, KVM).

Now, the only thing I can do is to use another distro as Debian or Gentoo (again) where I could find all this. Here are some suggestion I would make to Arch developer, hoping that some day they can embed this features inside this great distro:

1 - The "suspend" package in AUR do works (in other distro) but it needs some care in Arch.

2 - Recently two more developers have been added to the Arch64 project... I hope Arch64 will continue to grow.

3a - The "xen" package in AUR also works but there is no available Xen-compliant kernel so it's useless... I wish I had the time to make an Arch package for the kernel but I didn't. Beside, the original Xen kernel (avaible in the same Xen package) is based on the version 2.6.16.33 which actually doesn't work on my machine. Red hat and Debian patched following versions of the kernel.

3b - The "kvm" package in AUR is available to build KVM's qemu modified sources. The KVM modules are available in vanilla kernel 2.6.20 and .21 but they are old so I suggest not to compile the module in the main kernel and to make them available in a separate package. In this way you can use the last version from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=180599 (keeping the "bleeding edge" filosophy alive even for this thing).

Thanks you and good work!

shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

Posts: 2,043

Re: Suggestions

Some weeks ago I came across Arch... it's really a wonderful distro but it misses some important things that makes it unusable for me:
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Sorry, I don't know any of these things, I hope other people will be able to help you.
Otherwise, it may mean that arch is just lacking contributors for these parts, and in this case, the only thing to do is to contribute and help improving arch (typically, the arch64 part, but possibly also packages that might be orphaned).

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axelgenus

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From: Italy

Registered: 2007-04-15

Posts: 100

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Re: Suggestions

Otherwise, it may mean that arch is just lacking contributors for these parts, and in this case, the only thing to do is to contribute and help improving arch (typically, the arch64 part, but possibly also packages that might be orphaned).

Yep, you're right but I don't have the time right now so I can't.

billy

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From: Slovenia

Registered: 2006-09-13

Posts: 164

Re: Suggestions

3b - The "kvm" package in AUR is available to build KVM's qemu modified sources. The KVM modules are available in vanilla kernel 2.6.20 and .21 but they are old so I suggest not to compile the module in the main kernel and to make them available in a separate package. In this way you can use the last version from http://sourceforge.net/project/showfile … _id=180599 (keeping the "bleeding edge" filosophy alive even for this thing).

I also think this would be better.