Arch Reviewed by ostatic.com

lang2 · 2009-01-14 20:38:20

Havn't seen anyone posted this yet. So here it goes:

http://ostatic.com/blog/a-weekend-with-arch

pyther · 2009-01-14 20:51:28

Nice find, I've never heard of ostatic.com but I think the review does a really good job touching upon what arch really is.

Misfit138 · 2009-01-14 21:51:10

Wow. The best review I have ever read about Arch. Very fair, brief, insightful and accurate.

Bestiapeluda · 2009-01-16 18:39:57

/agree

Nepherte · 2009-01-17 13:03:31

What does the reviewer use for pacman: http://www.flickr.com/photos/linuxlibrarian/3189239334/ ? It doesn't look like wget.

Last edited by Nepherte (2009-01-17 13:03:49)

Basn · 2009-01-17 13:07:59

It looks more like curl

Nepherte · 2009-01-17 13:16:12

This is what I get with curl:

  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100 32479  100 32479    0     0   175k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:-- 2330k
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  380k  100  380k    0     0   449k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  545k
  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100  355k  100  355k    0     0   345k      0  0:00:01  0:00:01 --:--:--  516k

This is my transfer command:

XferCommand = /usr/bin/curl %u > %o

Allan · 2009-01-17 13:24:51

Huh? That is the internal libdownload (or the default).

jelly · 2009-01-17 14:18:34

Allan wrote:

Huh? That is the internal libdownload (or the default).

Yeah it is, maybe he is used to yaourt . Well it is a good review, as the reviewer mentioned the extra information after install hal or gimp is awesome .

Nepherte · 2009-01-17 14:33:53

Yea I was totally clueless. I only use yaourt for aur but I always enabled wget for the transfer agent. I never thought of using the default.

pointone · 2009-01-17 16:53:07

Is anyone else sick of reviews where the reviewer simply lists versions of installed apps and show dozens of screenshots? Do people not realize that most distros use the same apps, and that the look is very easily customized? Where's the beef?

Very well-written review... for a change. I hope DistroWatch picks this one up next week.

FLCLFan · 2009-01-17 19:52:54

Thats a great review. I suggest that you guys give the reviewer a big hug

Misfit138 · 2009-01-17 23:47:19

pointone wrote:

Very well-written review... for a change. I hope DistroWatch picks this one up next week.

Agreed. I'd love for this to end up on the Arch page there.

finferflu · 2009-01-18 00:12:38

Hey look! There's Dusty's comment on that page

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