David Rosenstrauch wrote:
David C. Rankin wrote:
and you have your screenshot:
http://nirvana.3111skyline.com/download/screenshots/archlinux/archlinux1-800...
Thank you to all who have help me stumble through getting to this point. All in all, setup has been a breeze on Arch (the fumbling around getting kde going aside). Looks like a great distro, and so far everything I use has been available. I haven't gotten to the compilers yet, but I bet they are all there. I still have a bit of cleanup and loading of packages to do, but I bet in a few days when you look at www.3111skyline.com, it will be running on archlinux;-)
Nice! Cool screenshot too.
Just curious, btw, on a side note: how'd you hear about Arch and/or what attracted you to it?
DR
Well, As far a selecting Arch, I went to distro watch, and having already done the RH-Mandrake, mandrivel (sarcasm implied), the and SuSE/openSuSE thing for years, I wanted to use a real linux distro again that wasn't now a beta platform for some mega-corp's commercial offering. (way,way to many problems are caused by that setup). I lived through the Mandrake meltdown in the 8.0-8.3 days, quality went to shit, so I moved to SuSE 8.0 pro and loved it and all following releases and continued to use it -- Enter Novell (Oh no -- not again..) I still use openSuSE and I am active there, but there is a whole lot of friction within openSuSE on Novell/openSuSE not fixing bugs in any release except the absolute latest release despite the earlier releases being no where near EOL and still supposedly "supported." The corporate takeover quality plunge never became a problem with openSuSE until (and/or starting) about June '08 with the 11.0 release. Perfect example, a fellow who was building packages accidentally built a whole slew of kde3 packages against the kde4-runtime base instead of the kde3 base. I bugged it and the devs admitted the mistake but closed the bug as 'WONTFIX'. Huh? WTF?? 10.3 isn't EOL until 10/09 and 11.0 isn't EOL until 6/10, why in the hell leave packages you know are broken -- broken for the next 14 months of the releases supported lifetime?? Basically, it wouldn't be fixed because it wouldn't affect the 11.2 release or flow into SLES or SLED, so the decision was made to simply leave the packages broken and move on. That irked me a bit. The reality being that openSuSE is now just a beta for SLES and SLED, not that pure linux distro I first used where it was all about quality and... "if it was broke, then let's see how we can fix it." Don't get me wrong, I still think openSuSE is a damn good distro and I have a whole lot of boxes running it. (All except this new Arch box ~ 14 in all) So... continuing the story, I had heard about Arch some time ago as being a Slackware derivative, and I had always planned on trying it. So from distrowatch, I went to their top-ten, found slackware, then looked for Arch, found it, downloaded the .iso, and wound up here;-) So "Hello Arch!" I have been using Linux since the Mandrake 7.0 release sometime in? what late 2000. Grown through KDE2 through KDE3, and now am preparing to be pulled kicking and screaming to KDE4 in the near future, but not quite yet. Once they take the crayons away from the current gee-whiz developers of kde4 and let the core kde guys get in there and straighten everything out and get all the core functionality squared away, I won't hesitate to move up at all. P.S. Yes, if you ask me what time it is, I'll tell you how to build a watch! -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com