[arch-general] Thank you
Over the last 2 weeks I have replaced 3 fedora servers with Arch - and want to say thank you . That's the last of my fedora machines now and I am all Arch and they are all working really well. The new boxes are haswell UEFI and boot using refind. Setting this up was straightforward with Arch. Thank you for making Arch the best linux distro. Happy New Year gene
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Genes Lists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
Over the last 2 weeks I have replaced 3 fedora servers with Arch - and want to say thank you . That's the last of my fedora machines now and I am all Arch and they are all working really well.
The new boxes are haswell UEFI and boot using refind. Setting this up was straightforward with Arch.
Thank you for making Arch the best linux distro.
Happy New Year
gene
I just wanted to add to your testimony I run Arch too on a server and it is very pleasant to use. And YES, running Arch as a web server is a good and feasible solution, even with the high number of upgrades. Definitively one of the best distro out there, thanks to its very dynamic and reactive dev community. Thanks to all and HNY.
May I add my thanks to all the developers and maintainers for making ArchLinux the excellent distribution that it is. I converted all my machines to Arch over the past couple of years, and I value the philosophy, the up-to-datedness, and the speedy and efficient package management, as well as the amazing level of stability given how current the packages are. I would particularly like to thank Rod Smith for helping in herding me, as one of the rEFInd learners, into the knowledge pen, and making UEFI boot work well on so many relatively new machines. The rolling distro model and the "Arch way" really do work fantastically well. May ArchLinux users have a great 2014 and beyond. On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com>wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Genes Lists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
Over the last 2 weeks I have replaced 3 fedora servers with Arch - and
want to say thank you . That's the last of my fedora machines now and I am all Arch and they are all working really well.
The new boxes are haswell UEFI and boot using refind. Setting this up
was straightforward with Arch.
Thank you for making Arch the best linux distro.
Happy New Year
gene
I just wanted to add to your testimony I run Arch too on a server and it is very pleasant to use. And YES, running Arch as a web server is a good and feasible solution, even with the high number of upgrades. Definitively one of the best distro out there, thanks to its very dynamic and reactive dev community.
Thanks to all and HNY.
-- mike c
I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven. --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
May I add my thanks to all the developers and maintainers for making ArchLinux the excellent distribution that it is. I converted all my machines to Arch over the past couple of years, and I value the philosophy, the up-to-datedness, and the speedy and efficient package management, as well as the amazing level of stability given how current the packages are. I would particularly like to thank Rod Smith for helping in herding me, as one of the rEFInd learners, into the knowledge pen, and making UEFI boot work well on so many relatively new machines. The rolling distro model and the "Arch way" really do work fantastically well.
May ArchLinux users have a great 2014 and beyond.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Genes Lists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
Over the last 2 weeks I have replaced 3 fedora servers with Arch - and
want to say thank you . That's the last of my fedora machines now and I am all Arch and they are all working really well.
The new boxes are haswell UEFI and boot using refind. Setting this up
was straightforward with Arch.
Thank you for making Arch the best linux distro.
Happy New Year
gene
I just wanted to add to your testimony I run Arch too on a server and it is very pleasant to use. And YES, running Arch as a web server is a good and feasible solution, even with the high number of upgrades. Definitively one of the best distro out there, thanks to its very dynamic and reactive dev community.
Thanks to all and HNY.
-- mike c
On Mon, 2014-01-06 at 22:11 +0200, Alper Kanat wrote:
I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
--- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 7:23 PM, Mike Cloaked <mike.cloaked@gmail.com> wrote:
May I add my thanks to all the developers and maintainers for making ArchLinux the excellent distribution that it is. I converted all my machines to Arch over the past couple of years, and I value the philosophy, the up-to-datedness, and the speedy and efficient package management, as well as the amazing level of stability given how current the packages are. I would particularly like to thank Rod Smith for helping in herding me, as one of the rEFInd learners, into the knowledge pen, and making UEFI boot work well on so many relatively new machines. The rolling distro model and the "Arch way" really do work fantastically well.
May ArchLinux users have a great 2014 and beyond.
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 12:30 PM, arnaud gaboury <arnaud.gaboury@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon, Jan 6, 2014 at 1:05 PM, Genes Lists <lists@sapience.com> wrote:
Over the last 2 weeks I have replaced 3 fedora servers with Arch - and
want to say thank you . That's the last of my fedora machines now and I am all Arch and they are all working really well.
The new boxes are haswell UEFI and boot using refind. Setting this up
was straightforward with Arch.
Thank you for making Arch the best linux distro.
Happy New Year
gene
I just wanted to add to your testimony I run Arch too on a server and it is very pleasant to use. And YES, running Arch as a web server is a good and feasible solution, even with the high number of upgrades. Definitively one of the best distro out there, thanks to its very dynamic and reactive dev community.
Thanks to all and HNY.
-- mike c
Salutations! While corporate support would fullfill some finanical necessities, I think the community aspects of Arch ensure that not a single entity maintains disproportional power over the Linux distribution. Arch is really meant for mechanics rather than businessmen. Regards, Mark -- Mark Lee <mark@markeelee.com>
From my UNIX user point of view, there is no distribution closer to the UNIX philosophy than Arch Linux. Lightweight, simple and yet powerful, this distribution serves the UNIX and GNU/Linux purposes better than any other. No frills all around the kernel, no shiny and useless packages upon installation, but a completely customisable environment, with clean and pure UNIX software interfaces available. When you boot an Arch system and get this little login prompt on screen, it does feels like nothing is impossible, like you can do literally everything with this piece of software. I have been a Debian/Ubuntu user for quite a few years, and even though these are perfect to discover Linux, there is nothing quite like Arch to actually realise what "Linux" is meant to be. Moreover, the GNU/Linux projects were meant to be matters of community, designed for (keen) computer scientists, and not for economics. Arch wouldn't be what it is today if it was maintained by a little group, or by a corporation. Arch pleases all of us because it is us that define it, and nothing should change this. As far as I am concerned, I joined the mailing list recently, and I am glad to see that the community is available, reactive and constantly thinking about available improvements. I chose Arch Linux for its philosophy, and those are the reasons why I'm still using it. To me, that's how Arch has evolved, and how it should keep evolving, A great 2014 to Arch, and to you all, who made it what it is today.
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven. This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps. [1]: https://digitalocean.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
Thank you for making Arch the great distro it is ! I've been a desktop user for a while but finally decided to install Arch on a server. 2014/1/6 Kyle <kyle@gmx.ca>
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year.
OVH provides Arch for their private servers, too. HNY to everyone in the community ! Joan
Hey Kyle, Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I personally think that Arch has the best package manager in Linux world. I now work for a different company and we recently decided to move our servers from Rackspace to AWS (and we did). The thing is neither of those providers officially support Arch. (Rackspace doesn't even support Ubuntu btw -- at least on dedicated machines) So this is really frustrating. I know that there are some efforts (AWS supported repo's, specially compiled kernels etc..) to make Arch available on AWS but they didn't last. Compiling & configuring everything to make the environment possible is not an option due to time related concerns. I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big thing in Linux world some day. :) --- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Kyle <kyle@gmx.ca> wrote:
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps.
[1]: https://digitalocean.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
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I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big thing in Linux world some day. :)
-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<-------8<------- Well, IMHO, after hopping countless distros since '99, it already is! happy winter/summer solstice everyone! :) -- 'aware water' is an anagram for 'we are at war'
On 01/06/2014 03:07 PM, Alper Kanat wrote:
Hey Kyle,
Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I personally think that Arch has the best package manager in Linux world.
I now work for a different company and we recently decided to move our servers from Rackspace to AWS (and we did). The thing is neither of those providers officially support Arch. (Rackspace doesn't even support Ubuntu btw -- at least on dedicated machines) So this is really frustrating. I know that there are some efforts (AWS supported repo's, specially compiled kernels etc..) to make Arch available on AWS but they didn't last. Compiling & configuring everything to make the environment possible is not an option due to time related concerns.
I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big thing in Linux world some day. :)
--- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Kyle <kyle@gmx.ca> wrote:
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps.
[1]: https://digitalocean.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
There is arch on ec2 that has been active for a long time by uplinklabs.net and he is an Amazon web services employee, official no. But he has been doing a solid effort for a long time.
I'm just another VERY HAPPY Arch Linux user, but I encourage you all to show your support for the people behind Arch in concrete ways too, to keep this project alive and well. The following links are from the Arch Linux home page, under "Support": Donate: https://www.archlinux.org/donate/ Arch Schwag: http://schwag.archlinux.ca/ Products via Zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux T-shirts via Freewear: http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux ...Fish Понедельник, 6 января 2014, 15:26 -08:00 от Don deJuan <donjuansjiz@gmail.com>:
On 01/06/2014 03:07 PM, Alper Kanat wrote:
Hey Kyle,
Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I personally think that Arch has the best package manager in Linux world.
I now work for a different company and we recently decided to move our servers from Rackspace to AWS (and we did). The thing is neither of those providers officially support Arch. (Rackspace doesn't even support Ubuntu btw -- at least on dedicated machines) So this is really frustrating. I know that there are some efforts (AWS supported repo's, specially compiled kernels etc..) to make Arch available on AWS but they didn't last. Compiling & configuring everything to make the environment possible is not an option due to time related concerns.
I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big thing in Linux world some day. :)
--- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Kyle < kyle@gmx.ca > wrote:
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps.
[1]: https://digitalocean.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
There is arch on ec2 that has been active for a long time by uplinklabs.net and he is an Amazon web services employee, official no. But he has been doing a solid effort for a long time.
-- Fish Kungfu
I, too, would like to chime in and say a big THANK YOU to everyone making Arch what it is. I started getting into Linux during my first year at university, and a colleague of mine recommended Arch. After using Ubuntu for a while on my new netbook I decided to try Arch, and I've loved it ever since. The Arch Way sits just right with my minimalist taste, and Arch is definitely my favourite operating system of all. Keep up the great work! /Emil On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Fish Kungfu <fish.kungfu@mail.ru> wrote:
I'm just another VERY HAPPY Arch Linux user, but I encourage you all to show your support for the people behind Arch in concrete ways too, to keep this project alive and well. The following links are from the Arch Linux home page, under "Support":
Donate: https://www.archlinux.org/donate/ Arch Schwag: http://schwag.archlinux.ca/ Products via Zazzle: http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux T-shirts via Freewear: http://www.zazzle.com/archlinux
...Fish
On 01/06/2014 03:07 PM, Alper Kanat wrote:
Hey Kyle,
Yes, I'm aware of DigitalOcean. Since many years, I used to have my own server running Arch on Hetzner and now on DigitalOcean. I used to host my ex-company's servers on Hetzner which were again Arch boxes. I
think that Arch has the best package manager in Linux world.
I now work for a different company and we recently decided to move our servers from Rackspace to AWS (and we did). The thing is neither of
Понедельник, 6 января 2014, 15:26 -08:00 от Don deJuan < donjuansjiz@gmail.com>: personally those
providers officially support Arch. (Rackspace doesn't even support Ubuntu btw -- at least on dedicated machines) So this is really frustrating. I know that there are some efforts (AWS supported repo's, specially compiled kernels etc..) to make Arch available on AWS but they didn't last. Compiling & configuring everything to make the environment possible is not an option due to time related concerns.
I do my best to spread the word btw. Hopefully Arch will be the next big thing in Linux world some day. :)
--- Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 12:32 AM, Kyle < kyle@gmx.ca > wrote:
According to Alper Kanat: # I wish Arch was supported officially on things like AWS and other server # infrastructures. It's clearly my favourite distro for many years. But it's # pretty heartbreaking to see that its support is only community driven.
This is still true on the most wellknown infrastructures such as AWS. However, Arch is officially supported on DigitalOcean[1], which has had the honor of being the fastest growing server provider of the past year. They officially provide Arch images for both 32-bit and 64-bit architectures, available on a per hour or monthly basis, depending on which is the lower price, similar to other so-called cloud hosting platforms. As far as I know, it's not the only provider to support Arch, but it is probably one of very few, and they seem to have the best service and specs for the price. Hope this helps.
[1]: https://digitalocean.com/ ~Kyle http://kyle.tk/ -- "Kyle? ... She calls her cake, Kyle?" Out of This World, season 2 episode 21 - "The Amazing Evie"
There is arch on ec2 that has been active for a long time by uplinklabs.net and he is an Amazon web services employee, official no. But he has been doing a solid effort for a long time.
-- Fish Kungfu
Thinking out loudly, arch is a lot of fun. Except for my occasional wrestles with systemd and its sort of layer cake it's awesome. If you need your graphics driver modprobed by the time X should launch you can put it into mkinitcpio.conf. And if you put stuff into mkinitcpio.conf, remember to argh build the image. /me swearing like a trooper. For crying out loud, there went an hour of puzzlement. cheers! mar77i
On Tue, Jan 7, 2014 at 9:15 AM, Martti Kühne <mysatyre@gmail.com> wrote:
Thinking out loudly, arch is a lot of fun. Except for my occasional wrestles with systemd and its sort of layer cake it's awesome. If you need your graphics driver modprobed by the time X should launch you can put it into mkinitcpio.conf. And if you put stuff into mkinitcpio.conf, remember to argh build the image. /me swearing like a trooper. For crying out loud, there went an hour of puzzlement.
cheers! mar77i
mkinitcpio.conf puts stuff into your initrd, you should probably use modules-load.d/graphics.conf, see modules-load.d(5) and [1]. But as I am posting in this thread, I too would like to say thanks for making this simplie yet so powerful distribution. [1] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Modprobe.d#Using_files_in_.2Fetc.2Fmodp... -- Temlin Olivér
Many thanks to the Arch Linux community for creating what is, in my opinion at least, the most beautiful, simple and usable distribution in existence. Having had to deal with Debian over the past week, I've continually hungered for the sweet simplicity Arch offers. Thank you for keeping the system clean, for easing the lives of systems administrators everywhere by keeping out of their way, and for teaching newbies how Linux works by leaving its guts visible. May you retroactively have had a happy solstice, Gesh
Here are my 4 Cents, Arch is the only completely stable Linux distro on my machine. It provides the most packages for my audio needs. It's the distro on my machine, which doesn't cause a dependency hell, when compiling from upstream. And last but not least, it provides the best package management. YMMV! Thank you! Regards, Ralf
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Alper Kanat
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arnaud gaboury
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Don deJuan
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Emil Lundberg
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Fish Kungfu
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Genes Lists
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Gesh hseG
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Joan Rieu
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John WH Smith
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Kyle
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Mark Lee
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Martti Kühne
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Michael Hauser
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Mike Cloaked
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Ralf Mardorf
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Temlin Olivér