Hi and welcome, Like you, I was a distro switcher - until I found arch. I'm not sure how I found arch; there was so much delirium and desperation at the time. I guess you could say I was young and foolish.
Any way, don't worry about dumb question: I've already established a few
precedents for that.
You should check out the forums and #archlinux (at freenode) - I think you may
be unearth some additional answers there, plus you'll gain an expanded feeling
for the arch community. As hoaky as it sounds, the community is one of the
reasons I like arch - even though none of them can bear me :)
vermin
kierkegaard
multiple personalities
Hi --
I'm new to Arch Linux and to the list. I wanted to introduce myself.
I come from a Slackware heritage. I moved away from Slack probably about a
year ago. My reasons for moving (in order of importance with most important
listed first) were:
1. Lack of an adequate package management tool that understood
dependencies.
2. Lack of PAM support.
3. BSD style init scripts
After leaving Slack I spent quite a bit of time with Fedora and also tried
Suse. I was disappointed in that it appears that these distros seek to compete
against MS Windows. Their install procedures seem to parallel those of MS
Windows in that it's pretty much a start-the-process-and-then-pray-a-lot thing.
If anything ever has to be fixed, you're in a world of hurt. Moving from FC2
to FC3 to FC4 it seemed to me that the distros were getting progressively more
bloated and that translates to 'worse' in my book. By the time I had spent
some time with FC4, I was seriously thinking that maybe I'd be better off
trying to fix Slack. Then the thought occurred to me that I probably wasn't
alone in my thinking and that perhaps a distro had been put together that would
satisfy my needs. So, I started poking around the Net and that's how I
happened to find Arch Linux. Admittedly, I have not yet spent a great deal of
time with Arch Linux. However, so far I really like everything I see. I've
got a feeling that I'm going to move to Arch Linux and never look back. So,
you'll probably be hearing from me on the list and I may ask a few dumb
questions in the beginning. Take it esay on me! :) At this point all I can
say is that it looks great and keep up the good work!
... doug
Hi --I'm new to Arch Linux and to the list. I wanted to introduce myself.
I come from a Slackware heritage. I moved away from Slack probably about a year ago. My reasons for moving (in order of importance with most important listed first) were:
1. Lack of an adequate package management tool that understood dependencies.
2. Lack of PAM support.
3. BSD style init scripts
After leaving Slack I spent quite a bit of time with Fedora and also tried Suse. I was disappointed in that it appears that these distros seek to compete against MS Windows. Their install procedures seem to parallel those of MS Windows in that it's pretty much a start-the-process-and-then-pray-a-lot thing. If anything ever has to be fixed, you're in a world of hurt. Moving from FC2 to FC3 to FC4 it seemed to me that the distros were getting progressively more bloated and that translates to 'worse' in my book. By the time I had spent some time with FC4, I was seriously thinking that maybe I'd be better off trying to fix Slack. Then the thought occurred to me that I probably wasn't alone in my thinking and that perhaps a distro had been put together that would satisfy my needs. So, I started poking around the Net and that's how I happened to find Arch Linux. Admittedly, I have not yet spent a great deal of time with Arch Linux. However, so far I really like everything I see. I've got a feeling that I'm going to move to Arch Linux and never look back. So, you'll probably be hearing from me on the list and I may ask a few dumb questions in the beginning. Take it esay on me! :) At this point all I can say is that it looks great and keep up the good work!
... doug
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