Comments on: Archlinux the best way to K.I.S.S

By: Chico

Chico — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 22:14:45 +0000

Great review!
I’ve been using arch on my laptop for a year now.
Years I’ve been looking for a replacement for slackware since not until recently there was no official 64bit version of slackware.
However, Arch works great for me, but there is just a little thing that i want to change.
When I set up servers I like just to compile the support for what I’m going to use, and you can, by working with abs and modifying the scripts, but this way my modifications will dissapear on a system upgrade, I’d like support for something like Gentoos $USE variable, since I compile my updates using yaourt -Sub.
But thats not so important on a desktop/laptop system.
What I really love is that everything is where it’s suposed to be which makes it very easy to set up and modify.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 13:22:46 +0000

Hello,

IMHO, command

pacman -Rd gnome

removes a package without a dependency check.

To remove package and all its dependecies, one should do
pacman -Rs gnome

As it is written in man pacman

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 19:29:58 +0000

@nobu Am glad you find it informative

By: nobu^

nobu^ — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:07:14 +0000

thank you, that was very intresting and informative many of my friends use arch linux, and now I know, why ^_^

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 20:15:34 +0000

@Rob the closest i have come to runing a bsd is the freeNAS server i have runing in my office if that counts. i have heard nice things too about freebsd and will surely give it a spin one of this days.

By: Rob

Rob — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:22:34 +0000

FreeBSD users give a little love to ArchLinux. It’s one that most resembles FreeBSD. I even thought the screenshot, above, was the sysinstall screen for a moment.

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:04:00 +0000

@ Lino Quickels yeah thanks glad you liked it

By: Bigbrovar

Bigbrovar — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 17:03:28 +0000

@ Christer Edwards yeah i actaully fell in love with arch during the installation. installing and booting into the kdemod3 desktop sealed my fate

By: Lino Quickels

Lino Quickels — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:55:20 +0000

Very nice review!

By: Christer Edwards

Christer Edwards — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 16:23:56 +0000

I was a bit of a distro hopper as well, and even when I’d stick with one for a while I’d reinstall very regularly.

Since I found arch I’ve yet to reinstall and its been running great. Arch ftw!