A thank-you to the Arch developers and contributors

I have been using some form of Linux for the past 13 years, starting with Slackware on floppies, and ending with Arch. Before Arch, I used Gentoo for almost two years.
Now that I have been using Arch for around six months, all I can say is thank you. Packages are kept up to date, configuration files are well documented and simple to edit, and pacman has not once hosed anything on my system ('emerge --update world' on Gentoo was occasionally a painful experience).
Arch is fast, lightweight, and always up to date. I love it!
Thank you again to everyone contributing to the project. You're doing a wonderful job.
Oh, and I would also like to thank everyone here in the Arch community. These forums are friendly and helpful, which really does draw people to the distribution!

Shopko wrote:It is amazing how painful it was to download and write 28 floppy images of Slackware, just to get home and find that one of the floppies had bad sectors.
lmbo. You think that's painful? Surely someone around here in Arch remembers listening to the old screeching noises coming from the analog modem "handset", running at 300 baud. I remember jingling the modem handset on the 2 styrofoam receivers to get a "good" connection. What the hell were those old protocols called? I remember "Kermit", but not the others...
Oh yeah, and magnetic tape drives. I accidentally threw in an unmarked computer tape into my car stereo system deck once, thinking it was from "Judas Priest". For a second there, I thought JP came out with a new song...

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Hi people,
I received a newer model laptop at work and decided to install Linux on it, since it came preinstalled with some newb OS (win something or other). I'm already a bit of a veteran with linux, and my favorite distribution has always been slackware. I have been following other distros though (like Ubuntu) but found them relatively untweakable. A while back (while still in release 0.5 or so) I read about Archlinux, and since it was a relatively slow day at work, I decided to try something completely new and decided upon Archlinux.
So far, I'm extremely happy with this choice. Some unexpected things happened (which is to be expected of course), like having to manually install openssh which was a bit of a surprise, but so far I've been able to get almost everything working with the help of the Wiki: X, KDE, touchpad, wifi with several network profiles (+ killswitch), vmware player, firefox + all the usual plugins, PPtP connection to work etc etc. and now everything 'just works'.
So here's a thank you to all the people involved in creating and contributing to the distro and it's knowledge base!
Kind regards,
Arnoud.

I'm not smart enough to program, or to be a developer, but I have contributed monetarily to Arch, and have put a lot of work into the Beginner's Guide and wiki.
I too am very thankful to the devs and community, and to be part of this excellent distro, by participating as much as I can.

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pmont

Glad to hear your happy with the updated control. All the credit goes to the developers. I only posted info on the forums, they did all the work.
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Thank you, to the whole Apple team!

I received my iPad today, as expected from the pre-order.
I could not be happier! Setup was simple and painless. All the included apps work as advertised. All my iPhone apps work. My recently-downloaded iPad-specific apps (Keynote, Numbers, Pages, Sketchbook Pro, etc.) all work as expected, or better. The iPad barely went above room temperature, after using it for periods of 6 hours and more.
I went to a art event planning meeting tonight, with a local clan of multi-disciplinary artists, and simply gave the iPad to them, without any instruction. They all instinctively knew how to use it, and all of them were struck by it's excellent display of images, animation, and text documents. Battery life was better than advertised.
I generally wait until "version 2" of a new product, but took a chance on the iPad, and am simply thrilled with version one of what will surely become the way things are done in the future.
Sincerely.... Thank you to the whole Apple team. Excellent work, and remarkable results!

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