Arch Linux

dp

Member

From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

Website

is there nothing better around???

 _____________________
< panic: can't find / >
 ---------------------
   
    
        .--.
       |o_o |
       |:_/ |
      //    
     (|     | )
    /'_   _/`
    ___)=(___/

this was the greeting when i logged in some minutes ago ... this brings me to another thinking: the only thing archlinux cannot support are "bluescreens of death" (those, who changed totally to non-windows-os and forgot: = the nice screens that apear when your (windows)kernel is in panic) ... well, you can simulate simmilar things with fortune

to the subject:
i wanted to install a 3rd OS on my notebook (besides the 2GBwinXP and arch), after removing finally SuSE 8.2 --- now, arch is my prime OS, winXP is kept only because of compatibility --- when someone wants to do something only a windows is able to (e.g. to crash the OS when you dont expect it to crash --- while clicking the most important button on such an OS ).
Now the thing is: i wanted to install something totally new (like i did about a year ago with arch while using SuSE) just to try to enhance the possibilities you can have with a A31p-Thinkpad (the 4kg must be worth something) --- i was searching on the internet for long, but i cant find anything better than arch (for my needs = stability, easy upgrade, clean /etc, latest packages, easy way to build packages, package-management with dependences-tracking)

gentoo --- maybe when it becomes mature, great docs!
sourcer --- maybe when it becomes mature, and cleans up
slackware --- not modern enough, but my favourite for years
SuSE --- >7.1pro are not longer "linux", sorry (but great package-repository)
RedHat --- Toys are nice, but this is not an OS, sorry
Mandrake --- very nice installer (i wish i have such a installer on archlinux --- not the GUI, but the possibilities (NTFS- resizing, ...)), but the system is to much "newbie-like" planed
FreeBSD --- the logo is ok, the system not up-to-date
i tried to build a generic, source-driven, linux (do it your self - linux), but the dependences make you crazy after the first weekend :-)

-> i'm going to install a 2nd arch on this drive ... it will become the backup-system

-> if someone can tell me another linux distro i should try i didnt already ... i'm hearing...

---

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

_JeffG_

Member

Registered: 2003-08-04

Posts: 61

Website

Re: is there nothing better around???

FreeBSD --- the logo is ok, the system not up-to-date

What do you mean by this?  I just scrapped a working up-to-date FreeBSD install for Arch Linux.  In my opinion the only thing FreeBSD was missing was good browser plugins and a good jdk. 

Jeff

dp

Member

From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

Website

Re: is there nothing better around???

FreeBSD --- the logo is ok, the system not up-to-date

What do you mean by this?  I just scrapped a working up-to-date FreeBSD install for Arch Linux.  In my opinion the only thing FreeBSD was missing was good browser plugins and a good jdk. 

Jeff

-> JDK is too old (as you also saw)
-> some hardware are not supported (i cant watch TV over my USB-Hauppauge-card :-( ) ... the linux-kernel is better from this point of view

as i need JDK 1.4 and sometimes i like watching tv, it's not a big desicion, not to use FreeBSD

---

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.

contrasutra

Member

From: New Jersey

Registered: 2003-07-26

Posts: 507

Re: is there nothing better around???

You can run the latest Linux JDK through linux "emulation" mode.

---

"Contrary to popular belief, penguins are not the salvation of modern technology.  Neither do they throw parties for the urban proletariat."

dp

Member

From: Zürich, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

Posts: 3,378

Website

Re: is there nothing better around???

You can run the latest Linux JDK through linux "emulation" mode.

i'll try that, when i next time access a FreeBSD-machine ... installing FreeBSD takes too much time and space to be done only to try something you already have on the current runnig system

---

The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.