Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 19th Mar 2006 02:24 UTC
"The recent emphasis of the Linux community has been on desktop distros that make it easy to install and configure the system without venturing beyond the GUI. Despite the success of these beginner-friendly systems, a significant segment of the Linux population prefers a simpler approach. These back-to-basics users want clarity, stability, and speed, and they do not care about the proliferation of redundant tools and glossy configuration helpers that populate the GUI-based systems. In the past, no-frills Linux users gravitated to systems such as Slackware, Gentoo, or Debian, but another back-to-basics distro is gaining favor among the Linux
faithful: Arch Linux."
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RE: Community makes it great
by abhaysahai on Sun 19th Mar 2006 07:46
in reply to "Community makes it great"
Member since:2005-10-20
I agree with you that it is the excellent Arch Community that makes it so great.
Arch is a distro for Linux aware users, even when someone asks very novice question, rarely do we come across the famous RTFM word. To an extent, I saw a post on Arch forum, where the current moderator want to study for his grad school exam and cannot continue to work as moderator. That fellow is so decent that he wrote a mail to the forum, seeking applogy for his inability to continue.
http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?t=14194
hats off to such a man, this posts reflects what a community Arch has.
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2005-07-06
Arch has one of the best communities I've seen. I use a variety of distros depending on what I need. I use Arch on my laptop because that is my main machine and it's where I notice the lack of bloat the most.
On servers I choose Debian or Ubuntu primarily because, like Arch, they have great package repos, but, unlike Arch, they are multi-platform which means I can just remember one way of doing things without worrying too much if it'll work on my AMD64 servers.
(Now before you get all huffy, I realize full well that there is a AMD64 version of Arch but last I checked it was not nearly at the level as the 686 version.)
To anyone curious about Arch I would recommend going for it, but keep /home on a separate partition. Install is a snap if you can read a page worth of docs. To anyone using Arch, take a look at the CK kernel.. it's a bit faster and includes some great patches over the vanilla kernel.