Hi fellow Archers, in the upcoming issue of the German Linux User magazine [1], Arch is the featured distro on the accompanying CD and the install procedure is covered in a (short) three page article.
As Linux User is a magazine targeted to the non-geek/not-too-technical audience, this welcome (?) publicity will probably lead to a flush of new (temporary) users that might have problems... So, we should be extra friendly and patient. :) The article is mainly very positive about Arch and even covers makepkg. One point of critisism is that you cannot change the keymap from the installer. From the article: "Arch combines the good points of other distributions: the easy configuration from Slackware, the package management from Debian, the build system from Gentoo. The Installation is a lot of work. The reward for your effort is a stable and fast system, which will let you learn much [about linux]." (Please excuse any translation errors. I am not a professional translator.) Thanks to Judd and the dev team for making such a great distribution, that now slowly but deservedly takes a prime spot among the myriads of distros. :) Cheers, Bjoern [1] http://www.linuxuser.de _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
