Arch Linux thoughts?

[josolanes]

I use Arch....I was a past Gentoo user and really enjoyed Gentoo as well, but the long install/upgrade times were just becoming inconvenient.

Arch seems to have a similar approach to Gentoo (start with little and build) so I gave it a shot.

I've been using it for a little over 2 months, after using Gentoo for 9 months, and really like it. I think this is the distro I'm sticking with for a long while

[SpaceSquad]

This is definately my next distro to try...heard nothing but good about it!

[Viper8896]

arch linux is my fav distro. the only thing though is cos its only a few years old it may have a buggy installation. 0.7 works perfectly but if u try 0.7.1 u will go into problems. u will be perfectly fine if u chosse to only install the base packages though and install the rest from pacman.

[cadkins]

well....famous last words are...famous last words

Went through the install of *just* the base packages and started to run into some errors. I think it may be my fault though. I need to make sure I have the jumpers set right on the hard drives

It was late and I am sure I did something wrong along the way. Gonna give it another go tonight and see what happens.

The install was a lot similar to Slackware which I like.

Now...if I run into problems with the install should I just post the questions here or start a new thread? Start a new thread would probably be better.

[techieMoe]

Now...if I run into problems with the install should I just post the questions here or start a new thread? Start a new thread would probably be better.

Yes. Please start a new thread.

[cadkins]

Yes. Please start a new thread.

will do capin'

I think I figured out what I was doing wrong so hopefully everything will go smoothly ( or more smooth ) tonight.

Thanks for all the advice and stuff so far. It's nice to see a very active Linux board. I used to come here before the redo and it was good but not this good.

Thanks!

[ticklu2deth]

will do capin'

I think I figured out what I was doing wrong so hopefully everything will go smoothly ( or more smooth ) tonight.

Thanks for all the advice and stuff so far. It's nice to see a very active Linux board. I used to come here before the redo and it was good but not this good.

Thanks!

Keep us informed of your progress. You guys are making me want to try it now!

[jaboua]

that being said I wish the install had a compile your own kernel like gentoo because the kernel, from what I've seen, is a completely modularized kernel and I personally like some things embedded and some modules and I like to only have stuff I need not the other stuff. But you can compile your own kernel if you so choose after the install.

It does have that choice, when you choose a kernel choose "2.6 src" or something like that, it will extract the kernel sources to your arch install and let you switch vt and do the dirty work

I think Arch is wonderful, I think I first gave it a real try in september or something... I have switched distros a bit after that but I always ended up back on Arch (and yes, I'm on Arch now). There are many things I like about it, bleeding edge packages (KDE 3.5.0 packages showed up in the respiratory's before the official release announcement for example), it's light and quick, nice packagemanager, I recently tried making a few PKGBUILDs (PKGBUILDs works kind of like the makefiles in ports) and submitted to AUR, it's very easy ...

[bryansmith]

...I recently tried making a few PKGBUILDs (PKGBUILDs works kind of like the makefiles in ports) and submitted to AUR, it's very easy ...

I tried that too...wow, are they ever strict with formatting. I was thrown off at first but I do realize that there has to be a level of conformity and consistency.

Bryan