On 10/26/05, Aaron Griffin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember the first time trying Arch, my reaction was "Holy crap!" - > not because of speed or anything like that... it was just that > everything was there, everything was in place. It just made sense. >
I had quite a similar reaction when I discovered Arch some months ago. I was an old RH, and Mandrake user... When I tried to install the latest Mandriva (2005LE) I discovered a very annoying bug... I thought it may be a problem with Mdv2005 and I decided to try (in no particular order) (k)ubuntu, FC4, etc... All those recent distros always raise the same and annoying bug (which lead me to thing is it something wrong with recent distros since booting an "old" Mandrake 10.1 makes this bug disappear). After all these unsuccessful tests, I saw some guys talking about ArchLinux on linuxfr.org and I saw a URL on distrowatch with an interview of Judd where he says something like: "Arch is always up to date. Install it once and keep it updated with pacman". The small sentence seemed to describe exactly the kind of distro I was searching for ages. So I decided to give it a try and (after a short period to understand the basics) I felt in love with Arch. Unfortunately my @[EMAIL PROTECTED] and really annoying bug is still here... But I thank this bug, without it I would probably still be a Mandriva user :). That is just a question of weeks/months. I was planning to buy a new PC in 1 or 2 years and I think I'll buy it sooner than it was planned. Gilles. PS: Sorry for my english ! _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
