If you don't have abnormal hardware, it should be a piece of cake, figuratively speaking. I can always help out if you want, but it's easier than Gentoo. It took me some time to get kitted out because of wifi problems though. However, I managed to find an easy way out by using Ubuntu to install Arch with chroot. Then I used Ubuntu's wifi connection to download Gnome and NetworkManager for Arch Linux (using Arch Linux's package handler), and I rebooted into Arch Linux..and never looked back :D
On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 09:19 +0200, Anton Xuereb wrote: > same problems existed in edgy...Half the time I end up looking for > third party repos to upgrade software which may sometimes be > unreliable and more than often create problems in dist-upgrades > then.. :( > > On the other hand, looked a bit at arch linux and looks > interesting...still don't know if it fits me well since I really dont > have the time to fight my linux to make it work > > M > > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 5:28 AM, Ramon Casha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps that's because this is a LTS version. They tend to be > more conservative in such versions, unlike "Edgy" eft for > instance. > > 2008/5/28 Anton Xuereb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You know me jean, didn't mind using the command line 3 > years ago when we were at 6th form let alone now.. > > I'm not sure about this...ubuntu makes you kinda lazy > in a way i guess.. > > M > > > > Jean : Arch Linux ftw! Well, I wouldn't give it to > noobs, but as you're not a > noob, I'd definitely suggest it to you. It's usable > (well, otherwise I > wouldn't be typing this), and there are no such things > as feature > freeze, it's a rolling release. Some things haven't > updated yet, like > KDE 4, but it's a piece of cake to compile it as a > package. > Customisable? You just have to edit 1 file. Wiki's > excellent, community > is excellent. Packages are quite fine too. There isn't > a synaptic like > utility though..but controlling it from the command > line shouldn't be a > problem. Oh,and suspend and hibernate work.. They > never did in Ubuntu. > Plus, the good things of Ubuntu, like the patches they > add to cairo for > better font rendering, are also easily obtainable. > > Sorry for the offtopicness, though. > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > > > > -- > Ramon Casha > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list > > > _______________________________________________ > MLUG-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list _______________________________________________ MLUG-list mailing list [email protected] http://linux.org.mt/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-list
