What is the next?

ngsupb · 2009-08-12 16:11:12

Well, I am quite disappointed by Arch linux. Before I installed it I had Ubuntu and had to fix at least something from time to time. But it wasn't enough and I had free time still.
I was promised that on Arch I will have to fix and learn more. But after I got Arch linux on my notebook running, nothing breaks.
I update everything everything I find with yaourt... Nothing breaks and it just works.

I have got the promised speed of light on Arch linux. I am impressed!
but where are the promised things that I have to fix here?

I am bored now. Nothing to fix, I have to back to my work.:/

Last edited by ngsupb (2009-08-12 16:14:56)

lifeafter2am · 2009-08-12 16:12:46

LOL! Great post!

I guess you need to learn how to break stuff first, then you can start fixing it.

ngoonee · 2009-08-12 16:41:47

Want to break something? Try pacman -Rd pacman .

On a more serious note, if you're really looking for things to fix, give some thought to getting samba4 running in parallel to samba3.

Barrucadu · 2009-08-12 16:57:29

Enable testing/, install a load of -{cvs,svn,git,bzr} packages from the AUR

jelly · 2009-08-12 17:05:54

ngoonee wrote:

Want to break something? Try pacman -Rd pacman .

meh chroot into arch and install pacman !next

@ngsupb:
I don't run ARchLinux to break and i don't think any developer has such intentions. Maybe in the testing repo

Ghost1227 · 2009-08-12 17:35:07

WARNING!!! Don't do this unless you REALLY want to have to fix things...

Try running the following....

sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

I'm not responsible if you screw up your system...

dunc · 2009-08-12 17:43:49

Ghost1227 wrote:

sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))

sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*

A bit of a sledgehammer approach, but it would work, assuming your cache is up to date... and your command hasn't removed pacman, of course.

Edit: Or coreutils, presumably. It's a good place to start, though.

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brisbin33 · 2009-08-12 17:46:07

Ghost1227 wrote:

I'm not responsible if you fuck up your system...

echo $that | sed 's/if/when/g'

looking for some time killers?

-- learn grep, awk, then sed
-- learn find, it's a file manager all its own (find -exec ftw!)
-- configure mutt for multiple email accounts
-- install and configure xmonad (or some other WM with an unusual config language)
-- design desktops, start a workshop ;D

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Ghost1227 · 2009-08-12 18:09:21

dunc wrote:

Ghost1227 wrote:
sudo pacman -R $(pacman -Qq | LANG=C sort -R | head -n $((RANDOM % 10)))
sudo pacman -U /var/cache/pacman/pkg/*
A bit of a sledgehammer approach, but it would work, assuming your cache is up to date... and your command hasn't removed pacman, of course.
Edit: Or coreutils, presumably. It's a good place to start, though.

Even if it did remove something critical, there's always the install disk and chroot

Mr.Elendig · 2009-08-12 18:17:50

ngsupb wrote:

bhla bhla bhla

Learn emacs. That should keep you occupied for the next 666 years or so.

majiq · 2009-08-12 18:30:22

Try to get up to date open-source voice recognition and facial recognition software to work.

Seriously. Contribute to the AUR, help fix bugs as shown in the bugtracker, etc. It's been burning my free time up lately. It works pretty well. Hang out on #archlinux and help others. Make you own mini-projects like a right-click browser in Openbox, or a new panel. If you have free time, it's because you're not pushing yourself enough. Arch is nice because if you get it stable, it tends to stay stable, allowing you to explore beyond your horizon. Note the operative word there is explore, which means you have to actively do it. The problems won't come to you, necessarily.

Ghost1227 · 2009-08-12 18:38:10

majiq wrote:

Try to get up to date open-source voice recognition and facial recognition software to work.
Seriously. Contribute to the AUR, help fix bugs as shown in the bugtracker, etc. It's been burning my free time up lately. It works pretty well. Hang out on #archlinux and help others. Make you own mini-projects like a right-click browser in Openbox, or a new panel. If you have free time, it's because you're not pushing yourself enough. Arch is nice because if you get it stable, it tends to stay stable, allowing you to explore beyond your horizon. Note the operative word there is explore, which means you have to actively do it. The problems won't come to you, necessarily.

Do you know of an up-to-date FOSS voice/facial recognition solution? I'd play with that one.

sand_man · 2009-08-12 22:34:52

Dejavu?
I swear I saw a thread exacty like this once before...

Acecero · 2009-08-12 22:59:07

sand_man wrote:

Dejavu?
I swear I saw a thread exacty like this once before...

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52560 ?

sand_man · 2009-08-13 00:09:31

Acecero wrote:

sand_man wrote:
Dejavu?
I swear I saw a thread exacty like this once before...
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52560 ?

That's the one

majiq · 2009-08-13 02:02:56

Ghost1227 wrote:

majiq wrote:
Try to get up to date open-source voice recognition and facial recognition software to work.
Seriously. Contribute to the AUR, help fix bugs as shown in the bugtracker, etc. It's been burning my free time up lately. It works pretty well. Hang out on #archlinux and help others. Make you own mini-projects like a right-click browser in Openbox, or a new panel. If you have free time, it's because you're not pushing yourself enough. Arch is nice because if you get it stable, it tends to stay stable, allowing you to explore beyond your horizon. Note the operative word there is explore, which means you have to actively do it. The problems won't come to you, necessarily.
Do you know of an up-to-date FOSS voice/facial recognition solution? I'd play with that one.

I'm close to a PKGBUILD for Julius with voxforge acoustic models for the voice recognition. Both are pretty actively developed (I think). As for facial recognition, there's the vxl library, but nothing that uses it yet compiles for me :-/.

ngsupb · 2009-08-13 07:27:18

sand_man wrote:

Acecero wrote:
sand_man wrote:
Dejavu?
I swear I saw a thread exacty like this once before...
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=52560 ?
That's the one

oh well, I should use the search option before I post a new one. But apparently it is a big problem of Arch if users keep posting such threads!

I like the solution of majiq. Thanks! I will look closer to the bugtracker thing to spend my free time there

jelly · 2009-08-13 08:18:40

i could post my list again about what cool things you can do for Archlinux .
Just learn PKGBUILDS and orphan some AUR packages that's always fun

Mr.Elendig wrote:

ngsupb wrote:
bhla bhla bhla
Learn emacs. That should keep you occupied for the next 666 years or so.

You're the devil

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spupy · 2009-08-19 10:18:25

Mr.Elendig wrote:

ngsupb wrote:
bhla bhla bhla
Learn emacs. That should keep you occupied for the next 666 years or so.

I like the subtle vi reference in your post.

On topic, it's been ~5 days since I installed Archlinux and I've run out of things to set up.

whacath · 2009-08-19 15:34:58

spupy wrote:

Mr.Elendig wrote:
ngsupb wrote:
bhla bhla bhla
Learn emacs. That should keep you occupied for the next 666 years or so.
I like the subtle vi reference in your post.
On topic, it's been ~5 days since I installed Archlinux and I've run out of things to set up.

Oh, it will come to ya. Theres always something forgotten to setup.

pseudonomous · 2009-08-19 16:31:49

Buy a new ATI graphics card and use the Catalyst drivers; then things can break every time you upgrade Xorg or your Kernel.

Peasantoid · 2009-08-19 17:43:32

pseudonomous wrote:

Buy a new ATI graphics card and use the Catalyst drivers; then things can break every time you upgrade Xorg or your Kernel.

OH GOD NO
*runs away, slams the door, and hides in the corner with a shotgun*

... uh, sorry about that.

AdrenalineJunky · 2009-08-19 17:53:46

set mtune and rebuild your entire system from source.

Aprz · 2009-08-20 17:28:33

AdrenalineJunky wrote:

set mtune and rebuild your entire system from source.

Program your own shell, imitations of coreutils, etc... instead of just compiling source too.

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