[arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Roman Kyrylych
Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/ http://vpslink.com/ (a subsidiary of http://www.spry.com/)

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Johannes Held
Hello Roman, I have a VPS with ArchLinux running. My Hoster is http://goekal-it.de/ and 'till now, I had not any problems (despite the dumbs ssh-login-error I wrote wonce a while). I can't say very much about their performance, cause I use this system mainly as playarea and I don't have

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Evangelos Foutras
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include:  http://www.slicehost.com/  

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] [signoff] kernel26-lts 2.6.27.35-1

2009-09-28 Thread Thorsten Toepper
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA224 Am Fri, 25 Sep 2009 06:39:58 +0200 (CEST) schrieb Andreas Radke a.ra...@arcor.de: 2 upstream updates for the LTS stable kernel series: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.27.34

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 8:59 AM, Evangelos Foutras foutre...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:09 PM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Callan Barrett
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: I use slicehost and haven't had any issues. Their over-the-intertubes recovery console is great. Aside, though, I believe Linode is just slightly more for your money though +1 for slicehost, running Arch on mine

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Crouse
hm I use https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;) Crouse. On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 10:26 AM, Callan Barrett

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Corin Schedler
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:09:01PM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include: http://www.slicehost.com/

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Kernel is in testing for both architectures, please sign off (at least one for x86_64, two for i686). I think tpowa had the kernel all ready to move to core, except he was waiting for the .1 release, which is there now. The only thing bugging me is http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/16149,

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Thomas Bächler
Damjan Georgievski schrieb: Just be aware of this problem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=627145 This Arch user lost /dev/tty0,1,2,3 device nodes on boot with 2.6.31 from the Arch testing repositry. A friend of mine also had the same issue with a self compiled 2.6.31. On my laptop

[arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days? What kinds of netbooks do Arch users have?

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Dieter Plaetinck
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 12:16:04 -0500 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days?

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Dan McGee
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days?

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Damjan Georgievski
Just be aware of this problem http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=627145 This Arch user lost /dev/tty0,1,2,3 device nodes on boot with 2.6.31 from the Arch testing repositry. A friend of mine also had the same issue with a self compiled 2.6.31. On my laptop the same config works

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Jonathan Brown
I am awaiting UPS delivery today of a Samsung NC10-14GB .. top of the line apparently.. look at the amazon and newegg reviews.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131015cm_re=nc10-14gb-_-34-131-015-_-Product

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Daenyth Blank
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 11:38, Crouse cro...@archlinux.us wrote: hm I use https://www.sevenl.net/all-dedicated-servers It's not a VPS, it's a dedicated private server. Running Arch. I use it for archlinux.me and others, costs about $55 month. I get the whole machine this way ;)

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Ed Jobs
On Monday 28 September 2009 20:56, Jonathan Brown wrote: I am awaiting UPS delivery today of a Samsung NC10-14GB .. top of the line apparently.. look at the amazon and newegg reviews.. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131015cm_re=nc10- 14gb-_-34-131-015-_-Product

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Brown jbs...@yahoo.com wrote: I am awaiting UPS delivery today of a Samsung NC10-14GB .. top of the line apparently.. look at the amazon and newegg reviews..

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Peter Cannon
Aaron Griffin wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days? What kinds of netbooks do Arch users have? I have the Dell

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 01:42:22PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:56 PM, Jonathan Brown jbs...@yahoo.com wrote: I am awaiting UPS delivery today of a Samsung NC10-14GB .. top of the line apparently.. look at the amazon and newegg reviews..

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Peter Cannon dick_tur...@archlinux.us wrote: Aaron Griffin wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Tobias Kieslich
Well, I dunno what's best these days, I'm more interested in what works. I got a HP2140, as business netbook on the pricier side, but with the 5105 released the 2140 should be available for cheaper somewhere. I paid $700 CAD but that includes taxes, our beloved you just pay that because you are in

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Tobias Kieslich
Since that seems important to you, the keyboard is really nice for its dimensions and it has a hardware button to turn of the trackpad. On Mon, 28 Sep 2009, Tobias Kieslich wrote: Well, I dunno what's best these days, I'm more interested in what works. I got a HP2140 ... -T

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Jon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Aaron Griffin wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days? What kinds of

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Crouse
The issues i've had were hardware related, and sevenl was great about them. I really have no complaints,and would/will use them again. I've talked to them on the phone and dealt via email both, every time they were very courteous and helpful. I've dealt with alot of hosting companies before, and

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 20:16, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's considered the best now-a-days? What

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: * Read reviews, there are lots of them.  (even http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_netbooks :)) Awesome! Thanks for this

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Firmicus
Dan McGee a écrit : On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here. What do you guys think of the current offerings? What's

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:23 PM, Firmicus firmi...@gmx.net wrote: Dan McGee a écrit : On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 12:16 PM, Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: So in the next few weeks, I would like to buy a netbook. The market is saturated, so I'd like to ask for some advice here.

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Pierre Chapuis
Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:15 -0500, Crouse cro...@archlinux.us a écrit : I had an account with slicehost before as well, i did not like the way the kernel updates were handled, so elected not to continue using them, however they were not bad to work with. They have just changed that!

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:15 -0500 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: * Read reviews, there are lots of them.  (even

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Corin Schedler
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:00:32PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM, hollun...@gmx.at wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:15 -0500 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: *

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Aaron Griffin
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:15 PM, Corin Schedler corin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 04:00:32PM -0500, Aaron Griffin wrote: On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:55 PM,  hollun...@gmx.at wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:22:15 -0500 Aaron Griffin aaronmgrif...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Sep

[arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Guilherme M. Nogueira
Hello all, Thing is: I live in Brazil, here laptops are way overpriced and I have a friend who's going to US next month and said he could buy me a laptop. I started searching websites of a few stores I knew and eventually found a one that I immediately fell in love with: Lenovo IdeaPad Y450

Re: [arch-general] [signoff] kernel26 2.6.31.1-1

2009-09-28 Thread Damjan Georgievski
The problem is mentioned here too http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/24/444 but there hasn't been any response. I was unaware of this, as there is no bug report assigned to me about it. Does this also happen with 2.6.31.1? yes there's a bit of discussion here... but, afaik, the patch linked after

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Crouse
Well, that's leaps and bounds better than it was before ;) Very good to know, thank you for mentioning that. Crouse On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 3:56 PM, Pierre Chapuis catw...@archlinux.us wrote: Le Mon, 28 Sep 2009 15:10:15 -0500, Crouse cro...@archlinux.us a écrit : I had an account with

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Sergey Manucharian
On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:31:54 -0300 Guilherme M. Nogueira guilhe...@nirev.org wrote: ... So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only. ... I use 14 ThinkPad R61 (T9300 @ 2.50GHz, 2GB RAM, 160GB 7200rpm

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Dennis Brendel
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 00:03:26 Sergey Manucharian wrote: On Mon, 28 Sep 2009 18:31:54 -0300 Guilherme M. Nogueira guilhe...@nirev.org wrote: ... So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only.

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Roman Kyrylych
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 16:09, Roman Kyrylych roman.kyryl...@gmail.com wrote: Hi all! I am looking for hosting that support Arch. Most probably this will be a VPS hosting (because of price), so official Arch Linux support is required. So far the list include:  http://www.slicehost.com/  

Re: [arch-general] Opinion: What do you think about Lenovo IdeaPad Y450?

2009-09-28 Thread Shridhar Daithankar
On Tuesday 29 September 2009 03:01:54 Guilherme M. Nogueira wrote: So I was wondering if any of you has one, or has another Lenovo laptop and your opinions about it. I plan on using it with arch only. I use a compaq F733 laptop(I think that model does not ship anymore. Bought last april). It

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Nicolas Bigaouette
I have a 1000 and I really like it. Came with Xandros, but wiped it for Arch ;) 8GB SSD + 32 GB second SSD. I run KDE 4 and develop parallel code on it without any problem. I upgraded to 2GB of ram, really easy to do and it does _not_ void the warranty. I also switched the wireless card. The

Re: [arch-general] VPS hosting with Arch

2009-09-28 Thread Nezmer
On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 01:38:15AM +0300, Roman Kyrylych wrote: * Found an interesting provider: http://openhosting.com/ which uses KVM and has an interesting pricing scheme. I hope to get things ready for deployment around December-January. Until then I'm close to start with VPSVille UK

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Towers
I have a a white eee 1005HA-M (matt screen, missing one or two things, e.g. I think it has no bluetooth, which I don't need anyway). It has some good points and some not so good, though I haven't tested everything. Arch installed with no problems at all, except that the ethernet is a bit fiddly -