Thinking about coming back to Linux and Arch.

Lowe · 2010-04-03 13:55:16

Hello. It's been a long time since I've used Linux and Arch. I don't even remember the more basic commands. I'm sure it will all come back to me though.

How has Arch been? Have the years treated it well? Anything new and exciting since the last time I used Linux? (2007) Is it a good time to come back?

karol · 2010-04-03 14:43:43

> Anything new and exciting
Tons of stuff happening every day, just depends on what you're interested in.

Feel free to grab the iso and have fun :-)

Bralkein · 2010-04-03 14:45:09

Hi! Well in October 2007 Judd Vinet stepped down and transferred control to Aaron Griffin. If you didn't already know that then I guess it would count as something new and exciting

The years have indeed treated Arch well IMO, it really seems to have gone from strength to strength. Of course the best way to find out would be to try it out. If you're not 100% certain you want to install it directly on to your machine then you could always download VirtualBox and install Arch on a VM, that should give you a quick and easy way of taking it for a test drive.

KingX · 2010-04-03 14:47:13

Lowe wrote:

....Is it a good time to come back?

Anytime is a good time to come back to linux.

Anikom15 · 2010-04-03 16:02:16

If you do decide to come back:
http://lowfatlinux.com/

It's a life-saver.

Spacenick · 2010-04-03 17:45:48

If you coming from a non Unix system aka Windows it might be better to first get used to Linux again with something easy like Debian or Ubuntu and then get back to Arch?!?

Anikom15 · 2010-04-03 18:09:38

You won't learn anything if you use those distros!

gazj · 2010-04-03 18:15:28

I'm sure it will all come back to you as soon as you land in the cli.

pacman -Syu

That should bring back some memories, and your already on your way back. Would have been pacman 2.x back then if I remember rightly

gazj · 2010-04-03 18:24:54

Oh yeah, your question ,whats new and exciting

As pointed out our benevelent dictator is now phrakture (you must remember him in the forums)
Pacman has had a major version bump, now has a backend (libalpm) and frontend (pacman)
Kde4 was released
NFS V4 was released into kernel
ext4 was released into kernel
netcfg (a kiss wireless net config for cli) is now part of arch
mkinitrd has been replaced with the much improved mkinitcpio
kernel24 was dropped - I'm sure everyone now agrees this was a good thing.
the current repo became core, packages cut down to a linux core system, the remaining moved to extra
the installer has improved loads, with an easy to setup usb install medium

There must be loads I have missed.

Well done the devs we have came a long way in 2 years

tomk · 2010-04-03 18:34:43

All significant Arch enhancements, changes, and events, all the way back to 2002, are available at archlinux.org/news. Feel free to dip in and sample whatever takes your interest.

The Arch wiki has grown and improved massively while you were gone - it's truly awesome now.

And if you really have forgotten everything, read the Beginners' Guide first.

loafer · 2010-04-03 19:29:28

Anikom15 wrote:

You won't learn anything if you use those distros!

There are loads of things to learn using Debian ...

Lowe · 2010-04-03 20:51:08

I'm already up and running Arch, ran into a few bumps, but nothing I couldn't fix with links and the wiki. It was a bit of a pain getting the sound working because it put my dodgy creative card first when I prefer my onboard, but I got it working.

Yes I remember phrakture well. He always brought a bit of fun to the forums. As for ext4 I never really got much of a chance to read up on it, but I decided to try it anyway.

gazj · 2010-04-03 21:35:17

Welcome back to arch

Themaister · 2010-04-03 21:39:22

loafer wrote:

Anikom15 wrote:
You won't learn anything if you use those distros!
There are loads of things to learn using Debian ...

You get really good at ./configure && make && make install at least

Anikom15 · 2010-04-03 22:40:54

loafer wrote:

Anikom15 wrote:
You won't learn anything if you use those distros!
There are loads of things to learn using Debian ...

Ok, ok, you're right, I take it back. You learn as much as you would on Windows.

tomk · 2010-04-04 00:14:17

Anikom15 - enough. If you have any useful suggestions for the OP, post them. Otherwise, drop it.

Nerd King · 2010-04-04 03:03:29

Linux in general has come a long way in the 2 years I've been using it. The big improvement has been hardware support. Printing is much better, the NVIDIA proprietary drivers are excellent, the ATI proprietary drivers suck less and the new ATI open drivers are flying along at a wonderful pace, and look like they'll soon be the place to be. Big companies are taking linux much more seriously, and linux got easy enough for noobs to use (criticise Ubuntu all you want, it's a great distro for noobs to test the water before they try the real thing). Overall the choice is yours. What do you want to do with your computer? Choose the OS that does what you want, whether it's Windows, linux, bsd or OSX.

Lowe · 2010-04-04 12:59:15

Yeah, I was pleasantly surprised that the nvidia drivers now generate a useable xorg.conf or maybe they always did? I don't remember anything like that though.

.:B:. · 2010-04-04 13:11:51

Anikom15 wrote:

You won't learn anything if you use those distros!

He surely won't learn anything from comments like this...

leadghost · 2010-04-04 22:30:15

We have an exciting new section in the forum call "topics going nowhere"...

Anikom15 · 2010-04-05 03:11:50

Ok, back on topic. A lot has changed since 2007, but at the same, it's the same ol' Linux. If you felt comfortable then, you will now.

rodbzro · 2010-04-05 16:07:02

I come back to Linux everyday and there is always new and exciting stuff.

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