Pretty Good Article about Arch Linux

I thought this was a pretty good article about Arch; just wanted to share.  Apologies if this has already been posted. 
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/A … 43717.html

karol wrote:
lifeafter2am wrote:
I thought this was a pretty good article about Arch; just wanted to share.  Apologies if this has already been posted. 
http://www.h-online.com/open/features/A … 43717.html
It has been already posted in the wiki https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php?ti … did=155441 , but I haven't seen it on the forums.
You know I didn't even think to look there ..... I think the wiki quite literally has EVERYTHING! 

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    Hello friends,
    I'm here stuck with Windows 8, making a couple of tests about installing Arch Linux in VMware Workstation, if it succeeds, I'll move to Arch completely. My question is: Is there a good book about Arch (installation, maintenance, best practices, security, and so on)? I tried "Arch Linux Environment set-up How-To", but unfortunately, it wasn't what I expected.
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    @op  As others have mentioned, do not seek out knowledge from a book.  There has been quite a few shifts in Archlinux, specifically to uefi and systemd.  There are a few starters for your concern.
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  • Please suggest non-English articles for Arch Linux Press Review

    Good day,
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    syms wrote:Thanks for help. i have one more question - how much ext4 seems faster than ext3? i mean do you feel that ext4 is faster than ext3 in most cases? thanks.
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  • Looking for addition articles for the Arch Linux Press Review wikipage

    Good day all,
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    tlaloc wrote:
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  • Just some few Arch Linux questions

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    molom wrote:Hi, I am new to Arch Linux and am looking for some advice and answers.
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    pacman is the package manager for Arch. It will install single package, batches of packages, update the installed packages and several other things. Yes, one command 'pacman -Syu will update all the installed packages to the most recent available in the repositories. It will not update your artwork, ut everything else will be updated if you so desire.
    molom wrote:2. Is Arch Linux User friendly once installed (When I say user friendly, I mean something like Ubuntu)?
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  • RFC: Queries about Arch culture and community

    Good day everyone,
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    Last edited by lseubert (2009-08-08 13:45:07)

    Allan wrote:
    Here are my opinions on these questions and do not necessarily reflect other Arch devs...
    1. True.  I believe part of the enthusiastic community comes from the fact that Arch requires you to set up your system for yourself.  So people become very proud of their achievement of getting their system setup exactly as they like it.
    This is an excellent point. There is a nice sense of pride that comes from tweaking your Arch install to just the way you like it. And it is an involved process requiring some modicum of skill.
    Also, people have always been encouraged to contribute fixes or start projects to fulfill areas they see lacking.  Seeing your work become used by many others is always a good feeling.
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    But as always, the principles guiding Arch do get bent when it is sensible to do so.  It was always said we don't split packages like many other distros, but we do some splitting these days (e.g. gcc-libs, KDE).  We now include info pages and other docs.
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    3. There are flame-wars every so often...  The last one that was probably quite obvious to many was changing rules governing the community repo (requiring votes or 1% usage as defined by pkgstats) and the move to using the official db-scripts (which may be seen as making the TUs less independent).
    That is a flamewar that I missed. How does Arch resolve difficult issues? There is no Constitution that I could find, nor any formal governing structure. Is it as simple as lengthy debate, and then Dred Overlord Phrakture decrees?
    I have never heard of a treat to fork the distro or components of it.  I guess that is because of the attitude of show us a working implementation of a good idea and it will possibly become official.
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    Here is an interesting factoid I came up with in my research:
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    Arch devs seem quite impressive, until you recall that they mostly maintain one version of each package and for only two architectures, whereas Debian devs support 11 architectures for 5 versions - experimental, unstable, testing, current stable, and old stable. (Ugh - is that brutal or what?)
    Seen in that light, one has to admire the very hardworking Debian devs, and wonder a bit about those Arch dev slackers. Yet another T-shirt idea! Change the first idea so it now reads, "I'm a slacker Arch developer, and I eat my own dogfood!"

  • Arch Linux as a WebServer

    I want to set up a webserver with PHP and Mysql to host webpages. I have a couple of questions about Arch Linux.
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    I had already chosen Freebsd but I still like Arch linux too much to ignore it.
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    ovihc wrote:1.) Is Arch Linux a good distro to implement a web server with PHP Mysql and Apache? Is it safe?
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  • [SOLVED] Installing arch linux using dd from anrdoid phone's sd card

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    Last edited by deus_deceit (2013-02-10 02:13:12)

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    Last edited by deus_deceit (2013-02-10 00:58:54)

  • Polish Arch Linux Conference - 2011

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