Arch is roughly twice as good as XP...

...when it comes to my laptop's battery life! It is fairly old and worn down and has a maximum capacity of 25%. In Windows it would last, literally, 10 minutes or less. I have been operating without the power cable plugged in for about 20 minutes now and it's just hit 3%.

finferflu wrote:Surely it is beautiful, it's very KISS, it has only the essentials, I was very lucky to get it despite the low price. However the specs are not the best you can find around, and I expect the battery to be of a lower quality too.
Vista only lasted 5 min on this machine
Totally off-topic, but my 15.4" MSI vr600 laptop has a full keyboard with the numeric keypad.....don't know why more laptops don't do this - is having a numeric keypad not KISS ?
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Freezes at night when not in use roughly twice a month

Hi,
Lately, roughly twice a month, my Powerbook will freeze at some point overnight when I am not using it. (Some times that I have noticed that it has frozen: 7:17 AM, 6:21 AM, 12:58 AM, 1:31 AM, 3:27 AM) System maintanance is not done at these times, right? I see Daily and Weekly are done at 3:15 and the Monthly seems to be done at 5:30 AM, at least that's what my Maintidget widget says of the latest ones.)
I leave it on but lower the brightness to nothing and lower the audio level to nothing too. When I get up the next day, I can't brighten the screen so I have to hold the power button down to restart it. When it starts up all seems fine, no recovered items in the trash (and never the your computer wasn't shut down correctly messages. I have only gotten that once of the MANY times this computer has had to be shut down when frozen over the two years I've had it.) I also remain connected to the internet but have no reason to believe that that has any bearing on this. (Web sharing is off, internet sharing is off, firewall is on)
I can live with this but am curious why it would freeze when I am not doing anything with it.
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Aha! I put in timeslicing on the system log and found some stuff. I have copied from the latest entry of 10/10/07 to a little bit after I started using the computer this morning, around 8:30, when I restarted it having noticed it was frozen. I deleted my name on all entries for privacies sake and don't think I changed the info otherwise.
Thanks so much.
Let me know if another log would be better.
Cheers,
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Arch bug triage howto or good practices

Hello,
I have been looking around the wiki and the forum and I did not found relevant information about how to help with Arch's bug tracker.
Also searching with keywords around "bugs" return a lot of posts in the forum and I might have missed the relevant post.
So I am wondering how I could help with triaging bugs at Arch ? I might also create a wiki page with any information from this post, to help newcomers willing to help.
If it is quite obvious that one could help by submitting patches, try to reproduce some bugs, invalidate some others, report bugs upstream, there are a few cases where I do not know what to do.
Lets take 2 examples :
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/9052
The bug is related to some old versions of xorg, xulrunner and epiphany in testing. There are some new packages in core/extra.
Can I request a closure for this bug since it is related to old packages (and even the bug does not seem Arch related), or shall I just post a comment asking for confirmation of the validity of this bug with the new versions ?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/10101
In this bug a problem was raised with f-spot. I tried to help the user, and even provided a PKGBUILD with a patch from upstream so that he can recompile and test again. But the user seems to be disapointed by Arch and wants to quit. He does not seem to want to provide more information about his problem and do not answer to my request for more information. As the user might be away for a while, is there a period after which I can request a closure for this bug (a month after the last post), since I am pretty sure that the patch from upstream fixed the issue, and nobody else confirmed the bug, and the user seems to not answer to my request for more information ?
My problem is : in such cases, shall I request a closure for the bug, taking the risk that the user re-open it, or shall I just put a comment to say why I think this bug should be closed ? What is the best way to help you devs at making your work easier with bugs, after submitting patched of course ?
Thank you for your help !

I don't remember a specific page. Essentially to bug squash all you have to do is look at bugs and see if they are valid. If not, ask for them to be closed. If they are still valid, see if you can find a fix. Google often turns up fixes for older bugs, particularly in other distros bug trackers or the mailing lists for the software itself.
Occasionally there is an organized bug day which gets announced everywhere. There is somethings a list of bugs that are targeted (e.g. http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Bug_Day_TODO which is probably out of date) but most often people just browse the bug reports looking for bug they may be able to help with. However, you don't have to wait for these. Just get in and help!
If you want to create a wiki page, post a link here when you are done and I will give it a look over.

Know a good dvd ripper for mac?

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Arch derivatives ; the wall.

Arch linux is built with software using GNU, GPL, and other open license types.
But when it comes to Arch derivatives you can clearly notice fans of this great system having
the tendency to oppose to, or spread a slight resent towards them (the derivatives).
By all means Arch is part of the linux world based around free sharing and altering of software,
thus Arch should be a verry good base for others to build upon.
So what drives an arch fan or user towards pure arch, or makes you somewhat opposed to derivatives ?
This is open to a broader approach to discuss or share your opinion.
Note ;
Thank you moderator for the second chance, i have rewritten this.
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If the question here is about derivative works, I see two varieties. In one, those who make the derivative project contribute nothing novel or meaningful, but yet they slap their branding and their name all over someone else's work. With most open source licenses this is legal, but it doesn't mean it should be done.
I had this happen with a project of mine a while back. I made a tiling WM based roughly on TinyWM. I gave a lot of credit to the author of tinyWM as the basis, even though in the transition from tinyWM's ~50 lines of code to my WM's ~1000 lines of code almost nothing of the original even remained. Then some boob took my WM, and removed all the tiling components and turn it back into a floating WM. Except this didn't get back to those efficient 50 lines of code - instead it was rat's nest of kludges and big chunks of code remained that either would never execute or would do nothing useful at all. The author of that derivative put in nothing novel: no ingenuity, no invention, but they spent a good bit of effort on branding it as their own.
On the flip side, a derivative work can really add something new. I have no affiliation with the project, and admittedly what I do know is pretty limited, but of the arch derivatives, I've been fairly impressed with chakra. If for no other reason, their website documentation gives a good background on what open source software is all about. It seems like it would be very accessible to people coming from the proprietary OSs. I also have heard their devs make good contributions to the KDE projects. Also, there is nothing snarky about their documentation. I recently had to look up another derivative distro that will remain nameless - their entire website was packed with vile hatred of archlinux, our community, our wiki, our developers, etc. Why they based their distro on arch just baffles me.

Installing Multiple Operating Systems with grub and Arch Linux

NOTE: Please keep in mind that there are many different ways to achieve this same result using various loop and ramdisk methods, read this with a separate window to jot down your comments and suggestions... this is ongoing for me so any help would be appreciated!
Read the full article at Install Multiple Os without cds
This is my first post and I plan on making this topic an official HOWTO with www.tldp.org.
I have been into the computer security scene since 1990, but I realized that I had very little experience with the various LInux, Unix, and alternative Operating systems out there.
I have a CD-RW drive but being a struggling computer security researcher I had no money for blank cd-recordables. What follows is how I managed to install various operating systems on my computer (1 hard drive) without having to burn to a CD the ISO and then boot from that.
I first partitioned my 120GB harddrive into 10 partitions, the 2nd partition is a small swap and the last partition is extra large because it holds all the ISO images..
I then wrote a small shell script to automatically download (I love wget!) the following.
OpenBSD
IpCOP
Libranet
Arch-Linux
Fire
Local Area Security
Packet Master
Devil-Linux
FreeBSD
Knoppix
Helix
Gentoo
Yoper-Linux
NetBSD
RedHat
Slackware
The script also downloaded Installation manuals and md5 checksums.. (let me know if I should post... its pretty unsophisticated
I installed Slackware (personal favorite) on hda1 using my last blank CD-R, note that I do not have a separate boot partitino. (Should I?). I also installed grub on the MBR. I love grub, if you read through the man pages and all info you can find about grub, you can learn a whole lot. Grub has much more features and capability than lilo, even though lilo comes installed by default with slack.
I organize my kernel situation as follows... In my /boot directory, I mkdir KERNEL, CONFIG, MAP, INITRD and that is a good way for me to keep my kernels and everything organized.. Another good way is a separate dir for each new kernel.
Since Arch-Linux is a solid distro, I'll use that as a first example.
Here is the Arch-Linux section of my shell script
goge Arch-Linux
$w http://puzzle.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.iso
$w http://unc.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/archlinux/arch-0.6.md5sum
$w http://www.archlinux.org/docs/en/guide/install/arch-install-guide.html
md55
cat arch-0.6.md5sum
md5sum arch-0.6.iso
md55
The first thing to do is to mount the downloaded ISO image so we can use it as if it were an actual CD.
mount -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0 cdimage /mnt/cdrom
Where cdimage= the ISO image. EX. /usr/local/src/ISO/Linux/Arch-Linux/arch-0.6.iso
This mounts the iso as /mnt/cdrom.
Next you need to copy /mnt/cdrom to a separate partition for the booting process. So mkfs.ext2 /dev/hda9. ( I prefer reiserfs or even XFS to ext but if you use something other than ext2 you could run into some problems because some of the installation kernels and initrds don't include support for reiserfs and so can't recognize the files. Although you could use mkinitrd to create a new initrd with reiserfs support, that might be pushin it IMO... I use the 9th partition consistently for this. I know there is a "right" way to copy the /mnt/cdrom files so everything stays the way it is supposed too, using tar or cpio, but I'm lazy so I just do cp -rp.
(What is the tar or cpio commands to copy with correct permissions etc??)
So you mount the 9th partition as whatever, say /mnt/hd and then copy the files. Now what?
Now edit your /boot/grub/menu.lst file to include the specific options to boot arch-linux installation.
A good idea is to find the isolinux.cfg file somewhere on the distro cd, this will tell you what to include in the menu.lst.
Here is the section in my menu.lst
title Arch Install
root (hd0,8)
kernel /isolinux/vmlinuz load_ramdisk=1 prompt_ramdisk=0 root=/dev/rd/0
initrd=/isolinux/initrd.img
This should be self-explanatory. The root (hd0,8) is pointing to partition 9. So the rest of the commands start from partition 9.
When you experience problems, remember you can always edit the grub boot options by typing 'e' and then edit the section. Also, a good idea is to include several variations in your menu.lst so you can easily try other ways to boot efficiently. And, remember to read up on all the installation guides that come with your distro, specifically, hard-disk installs.
There are special cases, Gentoo, has a semi-new compressed filesystem called squashfs. BTW, this is AWESOME, so check it out. It has to be compiled into the kernel, so some work is in order, but use this recompile to optimize your kernel. You can get the squashfs patch for almost any kernel. I use the latest stable 2.6 kernel. Squashfs is incredible and although I don't think you need it to install from ISO, you do need it to expand the livecd.squashfs filesystem that comes with the cd.
Heres a sample Gentoo section from my menu.lst
title Gentoo Install
root (hd0,8)
kernel /isolinux/gentoo root=/dev/ram0
initrd=/isolinux/gentoo.igz init=/linuxrc acpi=off looptype=squashfs loop=/livecd.squashfs cdroot vga=791 splash=silent
A nother' tip is the shell that is provided if you experience problems, typically busybox or ash. The key tools to get you going from here is mount and chroot. Sometimes you will need to manually create a simulated file system and then chroot into it. For instance, you might have to create boot, etc, bin, directories on the target partition.
I generally install each OS onto the next partition (careful of the logical partition) and add it to my menu.lst after install. A good idea is after installation, copy the kernel and initrd(if there is one) to the slackware(or whatever) boot partition on hda1. I copy kernels to /boot/KERNEL/ and initrd's to /boot/INITRD, then menu.lst is more organized...
You then need to add an updated section to your menu.lst (just comment out the install section for later)
Here is the finished arch-linux section from menu.lst
title Arch Linux 6
root (hd0,2)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 ro root=/dev/hdc3
This doesn't use my convenient boot/KERNEL/vmlinuz26 as you can tell by setting the root to partition 3.
***NOTE: Make a backup of MBR using dd and save to floppy, also backup the partition table to floppy, using cfdisk or parted. And boot disks (I use 1 with grub, and 1 with slack, and tomsbootdisk) will invariably come in handy. Tomsbootdisk is recommended, and make the grub boot disk when you install grub. install to floppy.
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The final result after some fun experimenting, is when I boot, I have a cool grub boot screen come up with the option to boot into whatever OS I want, this is handy for multiple reasons. One good thing to do after this is to port scan and vuln scan each OS, after you update of course. Write this stuff down and you will know the weaknesses/strengths of the various OS's.
I can boot a custom Firewall, snort, or multiple honeypots using this procedure, as well as a graphical kde environment with a kernel optimized for graphics and my processor/architecture, or an environment devoted to forensics or even an environment suitable for programming.
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P.S. Some of the cooler alternative operating systems are BeOS 5, EOS, ER_OS, V2_OS, and my personal favorite Menuet. Menuet is 100% assembly graphical operating system that fits on a floppy. Its f'in money!
This should be a good enough example to get you started, this kind of thing should be learned and not just copied... Knowing how to do this stuff could prove to be exceptionally useful...

Start by reading all the articles built-in on your Mac - Help > Mac Help, search "printer sharing."
http://desk.stinkpot.org:8080/tricks/index.php/2008/04/how-to-print-to-a-cups-se rver-from-mac-os-x/
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20080324224027152&query=share%2Bpri nter
http://members.cox.net/18james/osxprintersharing.html
http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-56940.html

Can't boot Arch from USB on Acer Aspire One...

Hi All,
New to the forums, relatively new to Linux. I've tried several distros including #!, U/K/Xubuntu, Mint, Kuki, Puppy and Wolvix. However none of them, except maybe Mint, have played very nicely with my Acer Aspire One netbook. Even Kuki was a bit of a disaster, though I liked the Midori browser, first time I'd used it was under Kuki.
Intro aside, I want to try Arch. I am not scared of a bit of hands-on work via CLI, although am certainly no expert when it comes to CLI & Linux!
The problem is, I created a USB install for the latest 32bit version of Arch using Unetbootin (I tried both under Windows and Linux, creating USB live sticks with both). However when I try to boot from USB, all goes well until just after a message during the boot process appears. I forget off the top of my head what the error message says, though it appears after successfully waiting 30 seconds to discover a SCSI drive (or something along those lines).
The error has nothing to do with the drive, it's related to the step in the boot process that comes after that. Whatever the message is (I'm at work so cannot access logs or anything right now) it ends up asking me to resolve from a CLI prompt, which then leaves me with a prompt dialog, or to restart and try again.
Nothing seems to work so I am not sure what I am doing wrong or if it might be a bug with Unetbootin or a bug with the latest version of Arch? Or simply a good old fashioned ID10T error?
Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Thanks! I'll mark this as an ID10T error for now then. I'll give the USB install image a try tonight. On a side note, does Arch come with Skype pre-installed and if not, is it relatively simple to install a la the *.deb package install?

Arch thinks sound is working, but it's not (Guest in KVM / QEMU)

Hi chaps,
I have an Archlinux virtual machine running the very latest Arch-goodness.
It's running inside Kvm-Qemu on a Ubuntu system (don't hate me plz!! )
I have setup the sound to emulate an Intel AC97:
<sound model='ac97'/>
And when I load the Arch system and do a lsmod, it has loaded all the correct modules all by it's clever self:
The machine starts with every muted (possibly an indication that something is wrong?), but using
alsamixer
I turn everything up.
But when I try something like
aplay /usr/share/sounds/alsa/Front_Center.wav
I get no sound (and no errors).
I'm at a bit of a loss tbh; I have read and re-read the Alsa guide on your Wiki, but unfortunately it did not resolve the issue.
Would really appreciate some help please guys!
Thanks,
tommed

$ qemu -soundhw ?
Valid sound card names (comma separated):
pcspk PC speaker
sb16 Creative Sound Blaster 16
ac97 Intel 82801AA AC97 Audio
es1370 ENSONIQ AudioPCI ES1370
Using KVM as the launcher (the
<sound .../>
snippet was in the KVM config file.
Thanks for the snippet about Arch starting with mute.. good to know!

Arch-0.6 How does one configure the kernel

Hi everone. I'm a new arch user (coming from gentoo) this is my first post here.
I installed Arch Linux 0.6 on my computer. I have experience configuring kernels, but I'm not sure where to do this in Arch Linux. In /usr/src there is only a "linux' directory, which I am unable to run the make menuconfig command from.
Normally I would cd to /usr/src/linux, and run "make menuconfig". In the Linux directory are a number of other directories in which I cannot find the kernel.

Well I am really happy to be able to configure MY kernel because I can get rid of modules I dont use and I dont have to bother about hotplug desperately trying to load modules that generate error messages.
Arch's stock kernel is good, but I dont like to have 40 modules loaded at the same time, each dependant of the other, which is kind of a cube tower getting always higher, thus always more unstable.
How many times have I heard of people not being able to get sound working ? They had 15 modules for sound , which is absolutely scaring...especially when a piece of them generated strange error messages...
And if you compile your kernel, you know what exactly is handling your harware and so you are much more able to figure out what is going wrong when a device is not working anymore.
I had a working system with a stock kernel and about 30 blacklisted modules, and about 10 manually added. I felt the system was going to crash every five minutes when I was playing multimedia(which actually occured a couple of times)
I also had a working sytem with my own kernel, and it was much more stable. Hotplug loaded the modules I wanted it to load, and did not need hours to probe all my devices.
When I build external modules(NVIDIA, ipw2100 wireless drivers), they compile fine, whereas they dont always do with the stock kernel.

SQL linked server twice as slow in Windows 7 as XP

We have a transaction based synchronization from SQL Server to Oracle, i.e. both must commit or rollback in one distributed transaction. We achieved this using MSSQL Linked Server using the Oracle Provider for OLE DB and triggers running openquery for speed.
The SQL Sever 2008 was on XP (doesn't need a server) and the Oracle 11g was on Red Hat 5EL. In testing from the first trigger firing to the last trigger finishing, a save test took ~11 Seconds, not perfect but acceptable. Yet when we moved to Windows 7 this time rose to 19 Seconds.
We contacted Microsoft support and they seen to thing it is a multi platform issue. So to prove them wrong we created an oracle DB on a Windows 7 system and ran the tests again, same issue. They will not look into the issue without us paying for premium support at an hourly rate, due to the Oracle DB. So we created one more test environment to try to prove it was a Microsoft issue and not an Oracle driver issue we created 2 SQL servers and ran tests to see if we got the same issue. We got the following results, which seems to point the finger at the Oracle OLE Driver on Win 7:
Windows XP sync to Windows 7:
SQL Server to Oracle = ~8 seconds
SQL Server to SQL Server = ~6.5 seconds
Windows 7 sync to Windows 7:
SQL Server to Oracle = ~19 seconds
SQL Server to SQL Server = ~5.5 seconds
Has anybody else found this issue and if so have they found a cause?
We Have run NetMon and analysed the results and the packets seem to take twice as long in Win 7 as Win XP. This seemed to point to a network issue, but does not explain why 100% Microsoft is faster when synchronising Win 7 to Win 7, as opposed to Win XP to Win 7.
I get the feeling the issue lies somewhere in the changes that were made by Microsoft in Vista in the networking protocols and configuration, causing a side affect in the OLE Driver. It could be that the driver works, but needs to be tuned with the new networking protocols from Microsoft.
We have tried countless network settings, even the ones suggestions from MS Support made no difference at all.
Edited by: 925129 on 03.04.2012 03:57
Corrected a couple of types

Hi Greg,
Thanks for the answer, sorry for the late reply, I was away for Easter.
What we have done is to alter the triggers to record their names, start and end times to an SQL Server table. I delete the contents of the table then run a test and run several queries to analyse the trigger data. the difference between the min start time and the max end time is how we get the total time. We run many queries over the data. I can send you the table DDL and some test run results DML, as well as, the queries I use to analyse the results.
On top of this test we have run Microsoft's NetMon to analyse the network traffic and there it is clear that the packets take roughly twice as long in Win 7 as in Win XP, both in 32-bit and 64-bit OS versions. I know there has been some major network changes after Win XP and Microsoft are convinced this is an Oracle issue. The same OLE Driver is used for both Win 7 and Win XP OS's (excluding the one for 32-bit and one for 64-bit) and my guess is something needs to be tuned for the networking in Win 7. We have really tested this so much over the last 2 months and tried all kinds of network setting tuning in windows but nothing has worked at all.
After creating an SQL DB to act in the place Oracle DB, the same issue was not present, so it really is a heterogeneous platform issue. In fact if the sync is SQL to SQL it is faster in Win 7 not slower.
If you would like any of the results of our testing to see if you can spot the issue, you would be welcome.
Guy
Edited by: 925129 on 16-Apr-2012 05:40
Edited by: 925129 on 16-Apr-2012 05:41

TS1702 Camera Application isn't working good in iOS 6.

Updated my iOS 5.1.1 to the latest iOS 6 and realize that my Camera Application keep Crashing in Whatsapp when taking photo.
And sometime when I want to take picture using the camera application itself.
Does anyone have the same problem as i do?

Hi Jenseib
I'm no expert on the technical in's and out's of Photoshop - hopefully someone more knowledgeable than myself will chime-in soon - but this might be a Win7 issue; is your User Profile set-up as an "Administrator?"
As for your CS3, a word of warning. As of CS6, which should be released in April, Adobe will only allow us to upgrade from One Full Version back, as opposed to the three versions we are currently allowed.
What that means to you is that when CS6 is released, if you are NOT on CS5, you will NOT be able to upgrade to 6 or any further releases, you will have to buy a new full copy, which will be very expensive; a new copy of Photoshop CS5 is roughly $700!
Good luck
Paul

Current path of Arch scaring me

I switched to Arch about two years ago because it was light and fast and clean. Since then, there have been a number of major developments. In order:
- Migration to udev. I approve of this one. It didn't really change jack from my perspective, seemed to effectively deal with my hardware, and wasn't much of a headache when it came down the pipe.
- Migration to initrd. I can't stand this one. I liked my arch kernels with their post boot loaded modules and simple boot images. It was really easy to turn them into PXE boot or flash boot kernels. Now I have ten bazillion modules all the time. Arch linux was always an additive process for me. I start with just about nothing and add what I want. The new kernels have been just the opposite... you start with six tonnes of BS and have to carefully carve away what you don't think you need and hope you don't break anything. It honestly feels like buying a computer off the shelf and having to purge it of crap. I know it's not tremendously difficult to do, but I don't think it's in the spirit of Arch
- Migration to xorg 7. I don't care so much about this one, and I understand that modularization of everything X is not the Arch dev's choice... but I don't like it. It seems to violate KISS. I'm just glad I don't use GUI's on more than two of my arch boxes.
Summary: udev good, xorg7 blah, initrd horrible
I guess I'm just asking peoples' opinions on these changes and how they feel they keep in line with the Arch way of doing things. Thoughts?

Well, as I said in my original post, xorg7 is in my opinion a "blah" change right now. I'd like to give it time to mature a bit. It's such a monumental change that the problems people are experiencing are inevitable. Also, I made a new install of Arch on one of my X boxen post the xorg7 update, and things went very smoothly. I wasn't happy to have to manually come up with a configuration file for X (the automatic generator disappeared! I don't know if it's back yet, but that was a little bit of a pain at the time). I like the modularity, I don't know if I like how fast it made it through testing.
I don't really know what was wrong with the original udev transition. I followed the instructions posted to the dev blog and had no issues (except on one machine where it was completely my fault). Udev rocks!
I'd like to see initramfs come out or a "regression" to the old way of handling kernels. The only things that really must be built into the kernel are IDE/SCSI drivers and filesystem drivers. Beyond that, everything can be modular. With the old scheme it was also trivially simple to edit the kernel .config and rebuild the package and have a drop in replacement. Things are a smidge messier with initrd. Also, I netboot computers. Initrd is more of a pain to netboot than a semi-monolithic kernel.
As for laughing about my understanding of Arch. Let me restate what I think "Arch is all about".
Arch is about simplicity. It is there not to make things hard or easy for the user, but to make it logical and simple. Arch has always been an additive process. You start with a naked base install and work your way up. You start with almost zero configuration and work your way up. My big concern is that with the introduction of initrd Arch is swinging towards being a subtractive process. You have a ton of modules and a bunch of extra hoopla to do because of initrd which you have to strip down to be efficient rather than build up to be useful. I think my analogy to an off the shelf computer holds true. When you buy an off the shelf computer you have seven layers of garbage you have to uninstall to have a clean and functional machine. It's tedious and has inconsistent results. When it comes to software, the additive process is much simpler than the subtractive process - and IMO, much less error prone. It's a question of philosophy rather than a question of initrd in particular.

[Solved] considering switching to arch

I am considering switching to arch as i have heard good things about this distro. however before i do I'd like to ask a few questions. firstly how does one install software on Arch. secondly what actually makes arch so great? and thirdly will WMs like KDE run faster on Arches bare-bones design?

dante19992 wrote:from the looks of it i wont be switching after all. tht thread seemes like just a bunch of fanboys saying "arch rules" over and over and over.
Unless you know someone in person that uses Arch, and that person knows how prolific you are when it comes to Linux, and he recommends you to switch, I wouldn't switch. The biggest fanboys are the ones that were on Ubuntu a week ago. They may be really enthusiast, but they barely know how to handle their system, which makes them totally unfit to tell you whether you yourself should switch or not.
No flame intended towards Ubuntu, by the way.

Installing Arch on PC without Internet Connection/Slow Connection

Arch Linux requires a fairly good internet connection to set up. How can one install it on machines which don't have any internet connectivity? Is there any way to make a DVD of Arch on a computer connected to internet and having Arch setup(DE,Media Players,Codecs etc) which can then be used on machines without internet connections This would come useful for me to install at my friends place. Does anyone even has a remote solution on this?

https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Of … f_Packages
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Lo … ory_HOW-TO
and, of course:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Beginners%27_Guide
You could also install on a computer with a connection, then use something like Clonezilla to deploy it.

Question about the "Windows and Arch Dual Boot" wiki

I've been reading this wiki http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Win … _Dual_Boot to get a better understanding of what I need to do to install Arch along side of my XP installation and there's one point that I don't understand. Here it is
It is important to note that there is a 1024 cylinder limit with some older BIOSs. This means that the BIOS cannot access things beyond the 1024th cylinder (about 8.5GB), so the /boot partition should be in the first 8.5GB (space before Windows partition).
How does one go about getting the /boot partition created during the installation of Arch to install in the first 8.5g? I have installed Arch in Virtualbox twice so far just so that I'm familiar with the procedure and I can't see anything in the installation where I can do this.
There's one other item that is not clear to me as I've seen conflicting information on it. If I do create a seperate "/boot" partition for Arch, do I need to make it "bootable"during the installation? At this point I don't think that I do.
My understanding of installing to be able to dual boot is that I only need to install Grub to "Sda" and of course edit the grub menu to add the information needed for XP. Is this enough?
Thanks for any help.

Yes, you install grub to sda (master boot record), and add the entry for Windows. In the step where you partition the harddrive, you can choose where to create it. Actually it may not be that much of a problem anymore, my boot is on the third partition, after ~15 GB. You can forget about the bootable flag when using grub, it does not care.

Arch is roughly twice as good as XP...

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