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Trying Arch
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| [I]t all works in Arch. NVidia drivers and Twinview settings were copy/pasted
| from Gentoo, and compositing all works fine. No performance problems in KDE
| with resizing or dragging windows, no Plasma crashes (yet), no missing icons
| or invisible notification area. QtCurve works in Qt3, Qt4 and GTK just fine.
| My sound card worked without any manual configuration at all. My mouse worked
| without tweaking, including the thumb buttons. Same with networking, the
| install prompted me for my IP and gateway etc. and then it worked, no effort.
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http://briancarper.net/blog/trying-arch
Truly great stuff
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| I grabbed two or three torrents the other day, when I was testing my
| overworked, underpaid Pentium laptop in its role as rtorrent slave. I
| mentioned OpenGEU yesterday, which was disappointing because of its heavy
| Gnome underbelly and overdone desktop glitter. But this one is the complete
| opposite: function and speed combined with an appearance that underscores its
| efficiency.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2009/04/01/truly-great-stuff/
Recent:
Arch Linux Review
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| Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution, meaning there is no specific
| dates for new releases, it is continously developing, it is almost always at
| the bleeding edge, with the most updated versions of packages.
| This means you only have to install once, and then just keep updating arch,
| and you will always have the most "recent release", this is one of the
| aspects I like the most about Arch Linux
|
| [...]
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| Arch Linux is a great distro, it has almost always the latest package
| versions available, it is optimized to run on modern computers, and is a
| great option for the Desktop user, it may requiere a little of work to make
| it work, but do not be afraid it is actually easy to make it, you just need
| some time.
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http://www.go2linux.org/arch-linux-review
Linux Review 11: Arch Linux
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| After 11 successful looks at Linux, I think I may have found my favorite...
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| Arch Linux is a Linux distribution striving to Keep it simple. My opinions on
| this? Its great. Arch is lightweight and you can do anything in relation to
| Desktop Managers and configuration. I installed it on my Eee PC 904HA, and
| had similar results to Fedora. Sound from the headphone output is full of
| static, but I think that might be a hardware problem. Wireless basically
| worked out of box. Even with the core install, essentials to a laptop
| configuration were working. I went from there, installing and configuring
| X.org, GDM, Gnome, XFCE, and getting programs like Firefox, Pidgin, and
| OpenOffice.org. What I got out of doing this all by hand was a fast, slim
| system with only the essentials.
|
| [...]
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| Arch is a nice Linux distribution. It is lightweight and fast. It works
| great, once you have it configured properly. It gives you flexibility. You
| only download things you need. I have to say, with all of these things
| together in one distribution, it is my favorite. I have to give it a 5/5. I
| think this will be my distribution of choice for a while. Until something
| similar to arch comes along with a better mixture of performance and
| features, Arch will be my favorite. For now, I will stop distribution hopping
| and stay with Arch.
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http://linux-exploration.blogspot.com/2009/03/linux-review-11-arch-linux.html
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