I took a peak at archlinux, especially since Chris (ctd) was twisting my arm. It's not bad. I've always been a sucker for linux distributions that require lots of leg work. Guess that's why I started on slackware all those years ago.
So far I have installed a base system, although as I mentioned to ctd lastnight it appears it lacks support out of the box for my nforce2 onboard ethernet. Should I go grab nvidia package for support and patch a kernel or something? I looked at the 2.6.3 kernel tree and I cant see no mention of nforce2 ethernet module/drivers. If I get ethernet working then I guess archlinux stays on the box a bit longer as I work through setting up x windows and various other stuff. Plan is to get lots of stuff installed and working, but networking hinges all of it at the moment before I can ssh in and do the rest from various other locations when time permits. It is hoped eventually that this machine will also run mythtv/mythweb with my dvico hdtv pci card in about 2 weeks time. So that will be another troublesome project. But should proove fun on archlinux. Any comments for me to go explore in attempt to get my ethernet working? Thanks in advance. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
