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#1 2008-12-22 12:30:00
- toad
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great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Hi there,
I've been distro hopping over the last few years and have always found the arch wiki a great source of information regardless.
I am now sick of changing things around every 6 to 18 months and am really looking forward to this new experience. Judging by your wiki, both your forum and the system should be first class 
I am still chicken and am installing on virtualbox for starters. The base system install was a doddle and KDE 4.1.3 is downloading as I speak. Once I feel a bit at home with arch migration is surely gonna follow.
Thank you to everyone who has made this possible.
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#2 2008-12-22 22:30:49
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Welcome aboard
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#3 2008-12-23 16:33:43
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Soon you will be using Arch outside virtualbox I'm sure. I have started like you and It didn't take long to change from a virtual machine and windows to a pc running only Arch 
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Oh and welcome to Arch.
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#4 2008-12-23 17:31:37
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Soon you will be using Arch outside virtualbox I'm sure. I have started like you and It didn't take long to change from a virtual machine and windows to a pc running only Arch
Oh and welcome to Arch.
Am I the only one who skipped the virtualization step?? Seriously though, you're gonna love it here. If you have any issues, feel free to bring them up here or in IRC (#archlinux@irc.freenode.net), someone'll be able to help you. Welcome aboard and welcome to the dark side 
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#7 2008-12-23 20:22:09
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
I tried gentoo right before arch, gentoo failed for my first go and arch succeeded in more ways then just one.
My intro to arch was fast and obsticle filled but was well worth it 18 months later.
You won't be sorry, welcome aboard.
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#8 2008-12-23 21:04:27
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Thanks for your posts
Virtualbox didn't last long for me - about four hours to be exact. Posting from my fully functioning, lightning fast Arch install.
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#9 2008-12-23 21:06:42
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
I skipped the virtualization also
Well welcome, you will find that everyone here is very friendly, and is ready to help
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#10 2008-12-23 21:17:25
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
Well I did use Arch in virtualbox because I was trying to find a distro to replace ubuntu, I've tried, fedora, suse, debian, centos and finally I found Arch. Didn't take long before it replaced ubuntu and windows and then spread to a usb flash drive and my desktop pc now it is everywhere
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#11 2008-12-24 15:14:47
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
yep, and they of little knowledge say linux is virus free!
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#12 2008-12-24 15:28:28
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
yep, and they of little knowledge say linux is virus free!
Not nessecarily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Li … er_viruses
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#13 2008-12-24 16:21:57
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
I was thinking more of: 
Didn't take long before it replaced ubuntu and windows and then spread to a usb flash drive and my desktop pc
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#14 2008-12-24 16:40:49
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Re: great wiki, looking forward to the forum and the system itself
toad wrote:yep, and they of little knowledge say linux is virus free!
Not nessecarily. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Li … er_viruses
It's true that Linux has a (very) few viruses, however... compared to the thousands of viruses that exist for Windows, I'd say we're ok in saying that Linux if virus-free.
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