Longest time you've used Archlinux without re-install

Olnex · 2009-03-14 05:45:17

Hello everyone, I have a question about Archlinux, since it is a rolling release, so in theory you can install once and update forever, but in fact it is possible that you have to re-install it for some reasons. I am wondering what is the longest time that you have used Archlinux without re-install?

I think the longest time you've used a distro without re-install can more or less reflect the stability of the distro. I mean you installed it and keep updating regularly, other than install once and use it forever without updating.

Thanks a lot!

Allan · 2009-03-14 05:52:14

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k2t0f12d · 2009-03-14 06:50:02

Olnex wrote:

I think the longest time you've used a distro without re-install can more or less reflect the stability of the USER.

initbox · 2009-03-14 09:48:36

This is my first Arch install and I'm at about 6 months.

scj · 2009-03-14 14:13:48

I've never had to reinstall Arch and I've been using it for about 2.5 years now.

archlinuxsagi · 2009-03-15 02:05:51

reinstall? what's dat? :-)

Devastator · 2009-03-15 17:49:17

I've reinstalled Arch on my old machine only once in a 3 years period - I was a begginer then, wanted to clean-up the system, but wasn't sure which packages could be safely removed .
On my current machine I haven't reinstalled the system at all - even though I've done some mess with packages (like testing many different DEs, and resolving the troubles with NVidia drivers) - there was no need for that .

P.S. I forgot to mention that I use my current computer for 15 months now .

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haxit · 2009-03-15 18:02:14

First install, never reinstalled. I have pretty much broken the kernel and nvidia drivers a bunch of times. Switched WM a bunch of times. Bloated and unbloated my system. Still, no problem. Runs as smoothly as it did when I installed.

bwh1969 · 2009-03-15 22:38:12

Since I am using Chakra live from a "poor mans" install, never. Using the session saving method from USB image (installed to a partition on the hard drive).

There are advantages of this, and I can mod and install things and if there is an issue, just shut it off. In the chance that I have saved any "mistakes" I just rename the previous overlay files back to the working ones (It saves the previous one as another file name, so you always have a backup).

And... it runs out of RAM. FAST!

lucke · 2009-03-16 00:26:52

I have been using Arch for 4.5 years, have it on 5 PCs, yet I never had to reinstall. If you know your way around Linux, there's probably no reason to ever do that.

dmartins · 2009-03-16 03:09:00

I end up reinstalling at least a couple times a year.. I just love to tinker..

jelly · 2009-03-16 08:40:33

I only reinstalled for ext4 and will only if i buy a new pc

zyghom · 2009-03-16 10:38:13

jelly wrote:

I only reinstalled for ext4 and will only if i buy a new pc

for this reason I used another partition, rsync all to it, recreate ext4 on /, rsync back and voila !

sokuban · 2009-03-16 13:10:00

I think I reinstalled twice. Once for ext4, and the other, I can't remember what it was for, maybe someone who has been around for a while can help me with this, but I remember once there was a big change in something and I was too lazy to do it so I just reinstalled. (Quite a few people just reinstalled then too I think.)

It was about 3 or 4 years ago I think. My memory is really poor.

Daenyth · 2009-03-16 14:00:23

I've never reinstalled Arch. Installed July 2007 on this machine, and before that for my laptop.

whompus · 2009-03-16 14:03:02

My shuttle box never been reinstalled since march 2005, current box only built july 2008 has not been reinstalled and this included swapping the filesystems on the partitions from jfs to ext4 (backup, modify, restore, reboot), laptop is my test machine to learn how to repair breakages before upgrading so has been reinstalled numerous times. Two other computers (family) have not been reinstalled for about 2 years. The main problem for me is remembering the changes so I have to keep a little notebook with relevent upgrade comments usefull info, command line cheat sheets, etc .

u_no_hu · 2009-03-16 14:20:56

The first rule of arch linux is "You don't reinstall arch linux"
The second rule of arch linux is "You don't reinstall arch linux"
......

broch · 2009-03-16 14:49:21

on this laptop installed once:
[2007-06-22 17:51] synchronizing package lists

however I really don't think that this matters: when I was younger I was changing distros quite often.

aaaantoine · 2009-03-16 17:36:04

It's been 3 months so far...

clarence · 2009-03-17 00:05:34

~2 years and two hard drives.....

lynceanquant · 2009-03-17 00:08:20

Using Arch for a year now and only had to reinstall once to migrate to Arch64 from i686

outerdark · 2009-03-17 09:59:44

one pc for 3 years, on two others since may 2007 ... all other archlinux systems are not that old

ohh and i just reinstall for 64bit

droog · 2009-03-17 10:14:34

24 minutes

edit:over 4 years til recently i reinstalled on my sda1 partition with ext4 then horrors ensued.

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