Loving Arch.

dhave · 2007-08-14 14:46:29

Roberth wrote:

Who doesnt love arch?

Bill Gates?

Cerebral · 2007-08-14 14:59:44

dhave wrote:

Roberth wrote:
Who doesnt love arch?
Bill Gates?

Bah, he's got a secret installation on his home PC that he doesn't tell anyone about. It's his guilty pleasure.

dhave · 2007-08-14 15:09:09

peets wrote:

Are you allowed to say "vehemently" followed by a positive-connotationned-word, like, "I vehemently agree with everyhting that has been said here so far"? Or must I use words like "whole-heartedly", "passionately", "absolutely", etc.

You raise a good question. I checked in the Oxford English Dictionary (the unabridged one), and, while there are some examples of "vehement" and "vehemently" used in neutral or positive contexts, all of those examples are at least 160 years old, e.g., from 1845, "his vehement devotion ..." It appears that the word is currently used in negative contexts, as you suggest.

To go even further off-topic, I'd be curious to know if the apparent cognates in Portuguese and Spanish have the same sort of semantic restriction. The OED says that the likely Latin source meant "without mind". You can certainly love something mindlessly, but I'd rather think of loving something whole-heartedly.

Precision in language, like tight code, is a nice thing. Thanks for bringing this up, even if it is OT.

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tlaloc · 2007-08-14 21:58:06

I may speek for three languages (German, English, Spanish - Portuguese is discussed above). In all these languages, it means "strongly" (like "reacting strongly"), with a side-connotation like "out of your mind" (i.e., you should not have reacted so strongly).
The source for this word is definitfely Latin, and yes - a negative by-context may have been attached here and there. But if I would "vehemently" disargree with your opinion (which I do not), this would neither mean "mindlessly" nor "whole-heartedly". Loving someone is a bad analogy here - love is both mindless and whole-heartedly by definiton, right?

foxbunny · 2007-08-15 10:18:30

Now, whenever we talk about Arch, we get all emotional. That's normal, from what I've seen in the past 9 months.

Anyway, what I've never seen before is Arch being installed on 2 girlfriends, and the Linux kernel studying law in Brazil.

I am a law student here in Brazil, just like linux

So, how does a kernel study law? Or is that with some strange patchset? Can it study other things, like cooking?

As for the term 'vehement', here's a Webster version:

http://www.webster.com/dictionary/vehemently

Anyway, to express my sentiment for Arch: wooooooooweeeah!

I think I might have spotted something about Arch that's not present in any other distro (AFAIK), or at least it's not all that common. Well, Arch does have the official unofficial repo — the AUR. It is great it allows any contributor to simply upload his PKGBUILD there and users have all contributions in one place. It is also good, because it gives us, simple users, just one more way of giving back to Arch. It may not be unique (I don't know), but this is the first distro I've seen doing this.

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Anonymo · 2007-08-16 04:46:44

seems like a lot of gentoo people are switching to arch

http://bertjan.broeksemaatjes.nl/node/16

This article is riddled with arch this and arch that.

shazeal · 2007-08-17 10:14:34

It would be nice to be able to format girlfriends and reinstall every now and again

Ive always thought of vehemently as reacting in a strong manner, as in detesting the alternative.

jordz · 2007-08-17 10:37:26

shazeal wrote:

It would be nice to be able to format girlfriends and reinstall every now and again

hahaha! nice one

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