Arch Linux celling points

Arch Linux celling points

[Keith Hinton]

Steve, I was curious what you meant recently when you said: "What surprises
me about it is it resembles Debian Unstable but yet mostly production
versions of applications are used and it very rarely breaks."
I believe you use Arch yourself, right..so why should that surprise you?
Also, the Arch Linux wiki has a lot of documentation that is well-written if
you ask me.
Arch has an installation process that I find to be a lot easier in most
cases than other installations.
I mean..the number of steps to installing Gentoo is far more than Arch, if
you ask me.
I also like how Arch doesn't cause a lot of stuff you don't need running
even on the LiveCD environment. So many LiveCDs I find are running ssh, and
a billion of other services that you don't even require in a live
environment. The other big point I'd like to make is that not only do other
services run on most CDs I've tested, but so many of them try to
automatically probe for Eth0 and activate it. I don't like that. In my case,
I couldn't have that happening in any case because I use a wireless network
over here. While I find Ethernet a more simpol technology in general with
Linux or anything else as a dhcpcd eth0 is required the number of connected
cables poses an issue.
What about yourself?
As for handeling wireless on my laptop when I'm in a hurry I store all my
configuration settings in a network profile for that particular network.


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Re: Arch Linux celling points

[Steve Holmes]

Well, when I ran Debian Unstable, I did run into some situations where
stuff broke.  But With Arch using the same concept, one would think
that possible.  But The fact that Arch sticks to more tested/stable
versions of given packages, this has been much less.  I ran into a
couple times where something didn't quite work or update but I
reported the incident and the fix came back within a day each time.
Contrast this with what many corporate customers demand; they don't
want any changes so they end up with some old ancient distro like
Centos or Redhat corporate edition.

Yes, you're right; the Arch wiki is an excellent resource for
documentation.

For networking, my Arch machine is just hard wired so I don't really
know much about how wireless stuff works with Arch Linux.  I have a
laptop which can use wireless but Arch won't boot on it; it has too
little memory to run anything over Slackware 12.0 <sigh>.

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote:
> Steve, I was curious what you meant recently when you said: "What surprises
> me about it is it resembles Debian Unstable but yet mostly production
> versions of applications are used and it very rarely breaks."
> I believe you use Arch yourself, right..so why should that surprise you?
> Also, the Arch Linux wiki has a lot of documentation that is well-written if
> you ask me.
> Arch has an installation process that I find to be a lot easier in most
> cases than other installations.
> I mean..the number of steps to installing Gentoo is far more than Arch, if
> you ask me.
> I also like how Arch doesn't cause a lot of stuff you don't need running
> even on the LiveCD environment. So many LiveCDs I find are running ssh, and
> a billion of other services that you don't even require in a live
> environment. The other big point I'd like to make is that not only do other
> services run on most CDs I've tested, but so many of them try to
> automatically probe for Eth0 and activate it. I don't like that. In my case,
> I couldn't have that happening in any case because I use a wireless network
> over here. While I find Ethernet a more simpol technology in general with
> Linux or anything else as a dhcpcd eth0 is required the number of connected
> cables poses an issue.
> What about yourself?
> As for handeling wireless on my laptop when I'm in a hurry I store all my
> configuration settings in a network profile for that particular network.
> 
> 
> Regards, --Keith
> Skype: skypedude1234
> Twitter/AIM/Yahoo: keithint1234
> MSN: keithint37@hotmail.com
> Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1
> Website: http://www.keithnet.us 
> 
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