The Official Unofficial 'Arch is Best' Thread

(Arch is the best distro ever...)
...at least for me. i know that one should not make claims that this or that distro is the best os. my past 2,5 years have been a constant distro hopping. i've tried tons of distros, the only one that comes close to arch is gentoo, but my thinkpad is not that powerful (866mhz/256 mb ram) to wait for software to compile.
if there wasn't arch, i'd probably buy a mac. this is my third time with arch, but i don't think i'm going anywhere.
so please keep up the good work, i wish that the archlinux project goes on as long as possible (forever? )
probably irrelevant, just wanted to get this off my heart. thanks for reading[/b]

Arch needs a little more polishing(pacman errors on upgrading) and stop its "let's put things in thousands of different repos(AUR unsupported/community, TURs, current, extra, testing, unstable and never integrate OFFICIALLY things waited for months". (Yes I'm exaggerating)
For example, azureus is waiting to be in the official repos, at least in community...
What I also do not understand, is why devs have not yet built a structure so that devs can massively join the distro...
Apart from that, sure it is one of the most impressive distro I've seen so far, next only to Ubuntu.
I'm now trying(and really like) Sarge and I'm waiting for a Arch 1.0 release !!!

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Hi all!
I thought it was about time we had an official thread for people who are looking for PSN friends as they seem to pop up quite frequently and it's nice to keep it all in one place!
It's also a handy place for any newcomers to introduce themselves to the community!
To take part is very simple, all you need to do is post:
Your PSN ID
A little bit about yourself
Games you play regularly
Days & Hours you game
Platforms Owned
Fellow forumers can then reply asking if they can add you, remember to mention this thread when submitting a friend request as no-one likes blank requests
I'll start the ball rolling...
PSN ID: Envisager
About me: Community Manager for SCEE, Ex MVP and long time forumer, Lover of music (ex DJ)
Games I play regularly: FIFA 13, Black Ops 2, Far Cry 3 (PS3)
Days & Hours of gaming: Most evenings after 7pm and weekends during the day.
Platforms Owned: PS3 & PS Vita

Hey folks, how you doing? My name is Chris, 26 from Glasgow. I was a very keen gamer at a young age, heavily into my Sega mega Drive and Super Nintendo, i then didnt play much until Sega Dreamcast where I became obsessed with the likes of Shenmue, Jet Set Radio, Skies of Arcadia, i then followed up with a Playstation 2 where I played Final Fantasy 10, Tomb Raider, Reisdent Evil, I also had a Nintendo Gamecube and liked the platformers like Super Mario Sunshine, Zelda, Sonic, Super Monkey Ball, I then drifted off gaming for some reason, mainly lifestyle was more interested in going out being a student etc. I have been hooked back in as I got a Playstation 3 for Christmas, very late I know 7 years oops oh well Im hoping to get a good 2/3 years off this as I have such a back catalouge to play with and PS4 probs wont get going for a year or so and I wont pay launch prices. I have an ecletic taste but I prefer action/adventure, rpgs, platformers a little kiddish I know but its a lot of fun, I prefer more problem solving games but do like instant fix racing games. My PS3 collection (games i got for xmas) is Uncharted 3 (my fave, completed it already but will go back to get Trophys, will be checking out the other 2, love a good story) Final Fantasy 13 i think? Only played an hour of that but might do some of that tonight. Sonic Generations which is what I would say I play when I dont want something too hard, Gran Turismo which is really fun but I know nothing about cars so I only find it semi interesting, Resident Evil 6 which I have played an hour or so off, its still to grip me, I was a huge fan of Code veronica on Dreamcast and Res 4 on Gamecube but this isnt as good for me...yet. And the Tomb Raider trilogy which I love, but I still prefer the original games by Core Design. So please add me folks as I have no online friends, i will be getting more into the online RPG thing in the near future, people have recommended Skyrim to me if you can think of any I would like please give me a shout. I consider myself to be a good gamer, competitive but perhaps a little rusty as i have been out the scene a while. get adding parsonageflat5 bye for now

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The "Thank you Arch devs thread!

With all the recent criticisms of Arch, the devs and the direction in which Arch is headed, (particularly with the move to systemd), I feel that the devs took too much heat for something that it's actually a good move for the future of Arch and it's community-driven development.
The move was explained well, and yet still some people were "expressing their opinions" quite the way they did and so I just want to say that I had ZERO knowledge of systemd until some couple of months ago, switched - and - nothing! Nothing crashes, nothing freezes, nothing it's wrong!
I even know how to edit/write my own service files now, it's so easy.
People often judge before they try and are then surprised by the result and a painless switch (I was expecting problems with systemd, yet I had none and to be honest my hardware isn't even the most "linux-friendly" one.
If you run arch as your distro of choice, I suppose one of the reasons you do so, is to experience the fast, innovative development approach as opposed to other distros, such as Slackware.
So, I want to thank to the devs for all the good work that they're doing (including the move to systemd) as history has proven that they know, what they're doing.
I hope I am not alone in this.
Just wanted to share my two cents / how I feel about it.
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https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=145954

Unofficial Arch Linux Newsletter for February, 2009

I don't want to step on anyones toes (sorry Kensai and pressh if I did), but I had a few things to say to the community, and some people were getting impatient, so here's a little unofficial Arch Linux Newsletter for February. Looking forward to the next official one!
If anyone wants to comment (constructive criticism, rants, hate mail, whatever) feel free to post.
Last edited by Ghost1227 (2009-02-04 09:31:39)

Dusty wrote:
pressh wrote:As I want to change a few things in the newsletter and Eduardo maybe too,
Did this make anybody else giggle? I want to change a few things with Eduardo myself... :-D
ah crap
[edit]
of course I meant to say that I want to change some things in both the newsletter and Eduardo
[edit2]
btw. Dusty, if you have any input on this in any way it is much appreciated. just let me know.
Last edited by pressh (2009-02-04 13:58:35)

What is the max. count of internal worker-threads in B1iSN 88?

Hi Experts,
We have an installation of B1iSN 88 with an ECC 6.0 and 54 SAP Business One installation. The Hardware is 8 Core multi-threads processor. 32GB Memory. Now we have a problem with the queuing of Events. What we have found is that the configuration of the internal worker-threads is set to -1(please see below for the settings). We change the settings to xcl.threads=20 and it improves the queuing. My question is what is the max. count of internal worker-threads per core? so that we can know how many worker will set and if we need to upgrade the CPU to 16 Core..
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You're very welcome.
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That box will also run the Radeon HD 6570 with no problem too, which is what I put in mine.
The downside of that model is that there are no settings for ahci or raid.
I own or have owned every CMT since the d510 with the exception of the dc7900.
My main PC is now the 8200 Elite CMT which I installed W8.1 on.
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I threw in a Radeon HD 6670 in that one.
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[Solved] Issue installing wine from the official repositories.

I'm trying to install wine, but upon running
$ sudo pacman -S wine
it returns
error: target not found wine
and If I try PlayOnLinux with
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it returns
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thoffmeyer wrote:run a "pacman -Syy" to force refresh the package databases.
Probably best to use:
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https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pa … nsupported
EDIT: @OP: Enable [Multilib] in pacman.conf and then run:
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What are the benefits of arch linux ?

What are the benefits of arch linux ?
default package management /software installation tool .

This posts fits perfect with my last 2 days xD
Cause a fan problem with arch, I tried to come back in a third partition to Debian. But 1 year and a half with arch makes me impossible to come back to debian because arch owns Debian in lots of ways (package management simplicity and filesystem structure, including this website, maybe the most important detail of this distribution, all info is on this page).
However, Debian's aptitude is extremely faster than pacman, that is the strongest point of Debian in front of Arch. Also I miss a detail on arch that I find indispensable: ICEWEASEL!
Can anyone get a package for archlinux of Iceweasel for me? I prefer weasels than foxs xD
Serious conclusion: Arch is better than Debian for me for the simplicity (pacman is simplier, the rc.conf file is a present of God, and this centralized and simple forum, the aur repository, the extremely great wiki (maybe gentoo wiki is a bit better) and the good organization of the homepage of archlinux.org makes this distribution for me the best for my purposes).
Now I believe I have to say something to you:
Thank you very much to all people that make possible this distribution, users, developers, etc...

Is it possible to rsync the official databases?

It seems unnecessary that every time the database is updated, all of the database files get overwritten with new ones from the tarball. Aside from unnecessary IO, doesn't it increase the overall bandwidth cost for the servers? Even uncompressed, I would expect the amount of data that would need to be transferred per average sync interval to be less than the entire database.
Is there any way to implement an rsync-based system like ABS uses to sync the ABS tree? Is there any glaringly obvious reason why this is a bad idea (tbh I haven't given it very much thought).
If not, is there any other way to access the official databases in uncompressed format? (ftp/http/svn/etc)

Thanks Allan (I somehow missed your reply despite having subscribed to this thread).
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Last edited by Xyne (2009-02-15 23:36:25)

Unicode Character Resembling the Logo of Arch Linux?

I would like to find a Unicode character that looks like the logo of Arch to decorate the terminal.
The best I've found is ᐱ, but I wonder if there is a better candidate.
Thanks in advance for any help.
Last edited by pikaren (2014-11-19 01:20:17)

pikaren wrote:
Trilby wrote:There are several modified fonts that have the arch logo (terminus-mod and tamsyn come to mind, but I haven't verified whether these have the arch logo). Would this work, or do you need it to be a standard unicode symbol?
Yes, I think that could be useful. Any more information please?
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So in this awesome linux timeline I found that Arch Linux was a fork from Crux Linux... now I dont have any idea how was Crux Linux, because I never tried it, I think the distro never was very popular, so I was wondering if someone would explain how was the origins of Arch Linux and its relation with Crux Linux
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I've used Crux before I ever heard about Arch........It's not too bad, just that it's a one-man show with a gathering of faithful users.........Per Liden, the author and developer of Crux, was not interested in pleasing the general public, which is why it never became popular............He just developed it mainly for his personal tastes and anyone who wanted to use his selection was free to do so, and can make any other pkgs they want with the 'pkgmk' script..........Today, Per is retired from from Crux development and handed it over to a core team......
@Husio
Anyway, if you don't use abs/aur you won't like CRUX becouse there's only some base packages.
Not entirely true........The official pkgs are contained in three separate repositories - core, opt, and contrib - and "opt" and "contib" contain quite a few packages......
Then there's a lot of community-based user repos, usually named after the person who is sharing it to the others.........You can see who the maintainers are in the 'Maintainer' column of that repository link above.......Although now I see there are a few more categories maintained at the main ports database, while the rest are maintianed at each individual's site.........I suppose more changes will happen, now that Per has "retired"....... ;-)
If I was to compare it to Arch, today, I would give Arch a higher rating......Arch has come a long way in the last few years, and is, IMHO, ahead of Crux in maintainability..........I've always been a devoted Slackware user, for the most part, and have tried a few other distros (including Arch) in the past, but always went back to Slack.........However, currently I'm switching to Arch as my desktop distro of choice because it's at the point I consider it better, overall, than Slack (which, to me, is saying a lot about how far along Arch has come)...... :-D
---thegeekster

Best thread/tutorial on sync?

I'm just getting started on using an iPad and iTunes. The official support and most threads are confusing in that I can't seem to find out exactly what happens when you "sync." I think of the term "sync" as synchronizing, as in making two things completely consistent, without removing anything from either, but this does not seem to be what is happening in an iPod/iPad "sync" - there is always the possibility of wiping something out!
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Questions about the differences between Arch and Chakra.

I'm trying to decide whether to install Arch or Chakra on my laptop. Currently, I'm running Arch on my desktop and Windows 7 on my laptop (which I plan to overwrite). My skill level with GNU/Linux is somewhat intermediate – noobs refer to me as an expert, experts refer to me as a noob. If it matters, I'm a KDE user and primarily use my computers for web browsing and python development. Anyway, I just wanted to get an objective opinion on the differences between Arch and Chakra. I have a few points that stand out to me, but I welcome any input.
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I started my journey into GNU/Linux with Debian back in 2009 due to it's stability. I really disliked Debian's ancient software and considered moving my system to Unstable. While doing some googling about Debian Unstable, I stumbled across Arch – it was love at first sight. I've been an Arch user ever since. I love the bleeding edge software, and haven't had any major problems since I originally installed it. However, every time I run a system update I cringe a little. While Arch hasn't broken on me yet, I've read plenty of horror stories and it makes me uneasy. I understand that Chakra is a mix between a point and rolling release model. Is it any more or less stable than Arch? I know there are other distrobutions out there, but I'm in love with the Arch philosophy.
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As much as I love Arch, I wouldn't be able to stand it if it weren't for the massive collection of software available in the AUR. While I'm perfectly capable of compiling software myself, I prefer to use a command like tool like yaourt to manage my software. I understand that Chakra doesn't officially support the AUR and that they have their own user repository. Seeing as Chakra is still relatively new, is it lacking? Will I miss the AUR as a Chakra user?
-Repositories
Is there much difference in the official repositories between the two distrobutions?

avonin wrote:
I'm trying to decide whether to install Arch or Chakra on my laptop. ... I'm a KDE user ... I just wanted to get an objective opinion on the differences between Arch and Chakra..
-Stability...
-AUR...
-Repositories...
My take on Chakra is that it's the same as Arch with different developers. They use pacman. They have a different and rather nice build system for their developers. They're doing a good job, but I'd hate to give up the services of Allan McRae who must work full time keeping the Archlinux core and toolchain up to date. Chakra devs probably piggy-back off his work.
As for "semi" rolling: I don't see Chakra as having a stable core. A stable core sounds attractive, it would be like NetBSD which has a very stable core Unix operating system with apps added via pkgsrc. But Chakra's core and toolchain is at the same version levels as Archlinux most of the time and are no more tested and stabilized than ours. Their core packages are updated piecemeal just like ours; there is no stable core that is released as a unit (afaik). Today Chakra has gcc 4.7 / glibc 2.15 just like ours. Their kernel is a little more stable: they're using udev 181 / linux 3.2.8 while Arch is on udev 182 / linux 3.3.7. They are more conservative in upgrading xorg and the video drivers than Arch. For example, today they're on xorg-server 1.10.4 / intel video 2.17 while Arch is up-to-the-bleeding-edge-minute with xorg-server 1.12.1.902 and intel video 2.19. Yeah, I would consider Chakra to be a little more "stable" than Arch mainly because of their relaxed pace in changing the kernel and the xorg stuff.
Most of the patches that I look at for Arch packages (I build my system entirely from source and try to build monthly releases for myself) are needed because we use more recent core packages like glib2/glibc/gcc than the developers of higher level stuff like qt. Chakra is in the same situation. We're on the front of the wave
The Chakra CCR is compatible with the Arch AUR and mainly draws from AUR (an AUR buildscript will usually work fine on a Chakra system -- they just add one or two additional info fields.) With a little effort you could get any package installed on a Chakra system that is available on Arch.
Last edited by sitquietly (2012-05-24 20:43:58)

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