Very impressed with Arch Linux
I’m been running Arch Linux for about six months now, and I constantly
amazed about how easy it is to configure and maintaine, and how simple
consepts make it powerful and flexible.
The package manager, pacman, is quite fast and easy to use. There is
also an alternative or extention to pacman called yaourt, which have
the ability to download and build packages directly from their version
control systems. Just type “yaourt emacs-git” to get the latest
version of the great editor. If you don’t want to have the package
automatically build and installed, there is also the possibility to
download the PKGBUILD file to build and install in manually.
Lately I have been installing Arch on some older machines, which don’t
have the fastest processor or the most RAM. Installing Arch is fairly
quick, and once it’s up and running I clone some git repositories to
get my complete environment setup. An instant computing environment
ready in 10 to 15 minutes depending on the amount of software you
need to install.
As I said, it’s running extremely fast on my computers, which isn’t
the latest and greatest, and everything is easy to maintain and
administer. Head over to http://archlinux.org to read more about it.
Another fun error message
Traceback (most recent call last):
File “/usr/lib/ubiquity/frontend/gtk_ui.py”, line 528, in poke_screensaver
Gerror: Failed to execute child process “gnome-screensaver” (Permission denied)
This happend as I installed, tried might be a better word, Ubuntu 8.04.2
Long Term Support. The laptop wasn’t the newest or fastest, but on the
other hand is runs everything else pretty smooth. What had happend was
that the screensaver kicked in, which resulted in that the installer
crashed and the Live Gnome session froze.
Which annoyed me as Ubuntu goes as beeing the one of the most user
friendly distributions know to humans. As I manage to install the more
advance distributions.
** UPDATE: the Ubuntu alternate install CD also failed. I will be
investigate and file bug reports on both install medium…
Speedmonster!
Arch Linux does run like the wind, and is to date the most responsive distrobution I have used. Am I wrong? Feel like telling me? Do that, keep me informed so I can make good decision about which version of GNU/Linux I use.