A bonus for me is that my son runs it and he lives 2 minutes from me. :) He is a former Gentoo guy, so knows how to build a distro. He is also a big KDE advocate, as am I.
I believe that you are right about the wiki. I have heard good things about it and Arch in general rocks. Cheers, Roy Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit Location: Canada On 15 October 2010 19:11, Scott <scot...@nyc.rr.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:21:44PM -0400, Roy wrote: > > Thanks Scott. I will give it a shot soon. First I want to install Fedora > 14, > > but Arch is on my list. > > Remember, don't trust me on this. :) Their wiki, however, is REALLY > good. > > A quick look at the wiki indicates that there are a bunch of different > tools for it. > > http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers > > Now, which ones are good, I'm afraid I don't know. What I like about > Arch is that I'm really pretty much a CLI person, and it gets in my way > less than others--also, its smaller, and probably more technically > proficient community means more respect between developers and users, > than say Fedora, where I just saw the quote (about NVidia) ..."then you > bring in the expectations of the people who work on Fedora, not run it." > Which adds credence to the oft heard lament, "Do these developers > actually *use* this garbage they're developing?" > > > > -- > Scott Robbins > PGP keyID EB3467D6 > ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) > gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6 > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ To unsubscribe from this list, please email linux_newbies-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com & you will be removed.Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/LINUX_Newbies/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: linux_newbies-dig...@yahoogroups.com linux_newbies-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: linux_newbies-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
