Arch Linux

ristretto

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Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 50

Hello - an introduction

Hello Archlinux people ,

I am coming to Arch after a few years with one of the very popular source distros. 
I thought I wanted something simple, so I had a look at Ubuntu and PCLOS.  I didn't
like what I saw.  So, I gave Debian a try.  But, honestly, the Debian experience isn't
very gripping. 

I use Fluxbox, so any distro that makes that harder than it should be is a real drag.

I have had a look through the archlinux forums and wiki.   Looks very good. 
Perhaps I'll get into it enough to contribute.

Arch linux looks suitable for many uses: file & print servers,
simple internet servers, virtual servers (i saw it offered on linode.com, where i'm currently running
ubuntu server), workstations and laptops.  Is this true?  Especially laptops

Last edited by ristretto (2007-07-06 01:09:00)

smurnjiff

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Registered: 2007-06-25

Posts: 211

Re: Hello - an introduction

Works absolutely fine on my laptop: Dell E1505.

ise

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From: Karlsruhe / Germany

Registered: 2005-10-06

Posts: 404

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Re: Hello - an introduction

Hi,
just a few words from me. If you do a base installation, then you have a minimalistic Linux, without X or other daemons running, just the necessary ones. You are right on a shell, that's all. After that you can install and do what ever you want with your installation. Just for your needs.

Runs here fine on a Samsung X20 (i686) laptop and on my Core2Duo (x86_64) workstation...

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Origynet

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From: France - Cannes

Registered: 2007-05-03

Posts: 101

Re: Hello - an introduction

Just to say that It runs really fine on my HP Pavilion DV 4275...
Wifi, suspend to disk... everything runs fine...
Arch is great !

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Skatox

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From: Venezuela

Registered: 2006-08-25

Posts: 64

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Re: Hello - an introduction

Never have a problem in a desktop pc.

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Jansson

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From: Sweden

Registered: 2006-09-10

Posts: 106

Re: Hello - an introduction

Hello ristretto, I never had any real problem with my laptop (well, if you scan the forums you'll find that I had some hassel with wifi... but that was my own stupidity...). If you don't belive in us now stated that it'll work, visit this thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=22816 (to avoid this thread to become a long list of "it works for me, yey!"-thingy).

When it come to the distro itself I can tell you what many others surely would say, it's simple and clean 

ristretto

Member

Registered: 2007-07-06

Posts: 50

Re: Hello - an introduction

OK, Can't believe how relieved i am to find this distro.  I have been running Gentoo solely since 2005.  It's on my workstation, home LAN and a old laptop.  I even had it on a VPS for a while.  It worked great for a long time and would still be excellent if I had the time.

Gentoo just doesn't scale well enough for me.   I don't really care if some defaults are choosen for me.  I do care what apps I use.   So, Arch is the ticket.  And it seems so much fresher than Debian.

I have a bunch to learn.  So back to it ....

Thanks to the devs and this community.  I've been searching the forum already for answers.  cheers!!!