[arch-general] Arch Linux
Hi guys, I just wanted to say that I’ve been playing with UNIX before Linux was born. I have gone from distro to distro, OS to OS. I can admin an *nix OS with eyes closed. So you can understand my reluctance when my friend urged; well almost kicked my ass to give Arch Linux a shot. He said, "You will hate yourself for not using it before!". I don't use Linux on a desktop. I guess staring at CDE in Solaris was enough. And I am quite jaded with distros and use mostly CentOS/Ubuntu in the cloud (I have instances in AWS and lately started a few in Windows Azure). Thanks to one of the members of this group, Brian Parson - http://www.brianparsons.net/ , I launched my first instance of Arch on AWS about a week ago. Took a few hours to get the hang of how you do things in Arch. The Wiki is good, but can do with better explanation. For instance, the nginx article that talks about running it in chroot but then all instructions for varnish, php-fpm are for unchrooted nginx. Kinda annoying but I know how to get around it. As for Arch, I am now hooked. It's so awesome. It's like Gentoo, but better (I know wrong comparison). I'm loving Arch so much that I will be moving from Ubuntu/CentOS for all my instances. So basically, ya. Awesome work! This distro is really kicks ass! :D PS - I'm also planning to create an image ready for deployment for use with Windows Azure -- they don't have any Arch images so far. Cannot wait to contribute back by making images for Azure available for use :) Bruno Delbono | Cognitive Researcher - Human Behavioural Project | Real Sociedad Española De Antropología | Royal Spanish Society Of Anthropology | ☎: +1 855 253 5436 ☎: +1 424 354 4700 | ✉: Bruno.Delbono@Anthropology.Es | ☞: Anthropology.ES | ✉: Bruno.Delbono@Secure.AF | ☞: Secure.AF | ☛: Mail.AC
On 2013-09-13 01:14, Bruno Delbono wrote:
PS - I'm also planning to create an image ready for deployment for use with Windows Azure -- they don't have any Arch images so far.
Actually, I'm already working on it – it will be available in VM Depot in 3-4 days. -- Bartłomiej Piotrowski http://bpiotrowski.pl/
On Fri, 2013-09-13 at 08:07 +0200, Bartłomiej Piotrowski wrote:
On 2013-09-13 01:14, Bruno Delbono wrote:
PS - I'm also planning to create an image ready for deployment for use with Windows Azure -- they don't have any Arch images so far.
Actually, I'm already working on it – it will be available in VM Depot in 3-4 days.
I am happy to see that guys who have years of experience love Arch! I don't have that much experience like you guys as I am just few years older than Linux :) I've been using Linux for years and I was in love with Arch as well. I love the rolling upgrade, bleeding edge packages and the flexibility that we can get from it. I have few servers running Arch in AWS as well and I have all my Laptops (Lenovo W520 and X230) running Arch as well, all working perfectly! :) Thanks Arch Linux!
On Thu, 2013-09-12 at 23:14 +0000, Bruno Delbono wrote:
The Wiki is good, but can do with better explanation. Cannot wait to contribute back
Welcome Bruno :) how about rewriting some of the Wiki pages :p? Regards, Ralf
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 7:14 AM, Bruno Delbono < bruno.delbono@anthropology.es> wrote:
I'm loving Arch so much that I will be moving from Ubuntu/CentOS for all my instances. So basically, ya. Awesome work! This distro is really kicks ass! :D
Unless, you have time to maintain all the Arch Linux server, I don't suggest to use Arch Linux as Server. Once you miss more than 6 months of update, the effort to update to a working state is just too time confusing.
On 2013-09-16 13:14, Abdul Halim Mat Ali wrote:
Once you miss more than 6 months of update, the effort to update to a working state is just too time confusing.
Well, don't do that, for starters.
participants (6)
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Abdul Halim Mat Ali
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Bartłomiej Piotrowski
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Bruno Delbono
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Chris Down
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Ralf Mardorf
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Xinyun Zhou