posted by Laurence on Tue 1st Apr 2008 10:02
Conversations After recently being converted to the excellent Arch distro of Linux I'm slightly saddened to read the following announcement:

http://www.archlinux.org/ (item in pink)

While I understand that the majority of Arch users are German speaking, I also can't help thinking that this move will only hinder the distro from gaining more "market share" (for want a better term).

While there are hundreds of other distro's available, Arch was the only one (aside Slackware) I've liked: it's package manager was simple and effective, it used BSD style init's (I've never agreed with Linux's excessively complex run-time modes). But despite all the simplicity, it never felt 'dumbed down' (like the more 'mainstream' of desktop distros can do â€" particularly Ubuntu), it's free from bloat and highly configurable.

Not being a German speaker, I feel my support is going to be somewhat neglected.

What are your thoughts Arch or distro langauges in general?
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look at the date
by Dryhte (1.78) on Tue 1st Apr 2008 14:56 UTC
Dryhte
Member since:
2008-02-05

Hi,

This looks like an April Fools' day message to me...

It would be a very bad move if Arch really went to German only... they won't be that stupid.

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RE: look at the date
by Laurence (4.28) on Tue 1st Apr 2008 15:08 in reply to "look at the date"
Laurence Member since:
2007-03-26

lol I'd forgotten it was that time of year.

I'll have a look again tonight and see if they've reversed their announcement

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RE[2]: look at the date
by Slapo (1.72) on Tue 1st Apr 2008 15:32 in reply to "RE: look at the date"
Slapo Member since:
2005-07-06

Yeah, it sure reminds me of pink Slashdot (the OMG!!! Ponies! version) of which I still should have a screenshot somewhere ;)

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Yup
by SoloDeveloper (1.67) on Tue 1st Apr 2008 17:01 UTC
SoloDeveloper
Member since:
2008-03-16

Congrats, PONYS!!!!! Has struck again.
It is an april fools day message.

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RE: Yup
by Laurence (4.28) on Tue 1st Apr 2008 20:35 in reply to "Yup"
Laurence Member since:
2007-03-26

tbh It was the forum that got me. The whole bloody thing is in German. It's annoying to navigate now.

http://bbs.archlinux.org/

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