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I got hooked on arch because of two things:
- simplicity (rolling release instead of complicated release management, x86/64 instead of trying to cover it all (80/20, anyone?), BSD-style init because why not just one rc.conf and who needs to switch runlevels anyway (80/20 again), etc.)
- documentation (the wiki kicks butt, the forum is also very helpful, I guess you could say community instead of documentation)
There are eight more reasons, but these two are the main drivers behind me using arch.
Nevertheless, there are a lot of things that need cleaning up in the wiki. Apart from the Beginner's Guide, which is very well written, there is not much consistency or should we say a gradual, consistent, evolving path to mastery in terms of best practices, everyone just kinda slaps things on there and the articles get outdated. I would like to see some kind of best-practices document on how to configure arch, which would put a little order into the current mess. I may be exaggerating a bit, as the arch documentation/community is still the strongest compared to all the others I know.
A few examples of what I think is unclear:
- /srv/http or /usr/share/webapps? (my guess is /srv/http?)
- hal or not hal? (my guess is hal is outdated and the best practice would be udev)
- ~/.config/myconfig.conf or ~/.myconfig.conf? (my guess is ~/.myconfig.conf)
- /mnt/usb or /media/usb? (my guess is /media, even though that directory doesn't exist in an arch base install)
I would like to put such a document together on the wiki if there is an interest out there for this, what do you think?
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The fact that the Arch Wiki is so good is all the more remarkable when you consider how difficult it is to build and manage a knowledge repository in the face of a rolling release.
Hal is deprecated: it is history.
$HOME/.config/ is specified in the XDG Base Directory Specification
/media/usb for removable drives and /mnt/tmpfile for filesystems, according to the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard
I think the page is a good idea. Go for it.
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/srv/http
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I would like to put such a document together on the wiki if there is an interest out there for this
do first, then ask
Go ahead and start the page - the best way to gauge interest is to watch as other users make additions and amendments.
Here's a subjective comment: IMO a lot of Arch users are here because they don't want to be told what to do - they want to work it out for themselves, and Arch is a better place to do that than some other distros.
* https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Th … er-centric
Last edited by tomk (2011-05-08 10:45:56)
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