Life on the Cutting Edge - ArchLinux

**MetalheadGautham** · 12-10-2008, 06:06 PM

Hi Guys! This is my first blog post in 2 months, and I decided to write a half decent review about archlinux. Please read it and comment on it.

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Originally Posted by The Smaller Bang

After a few months of using it, I finally feel I am confident enough to write a piece about one of the best, and I MEAN best, linux distros ever, archlinux. This distro is rather unique, and several things in it make it the ideal distro for the intermediate level linux user. The following is in no way a review or tutorial about arch, THAT part would need another post. Currently, I am focusing on its importance as a distro for the intermediate linux user.

Read the whole thing here:
http://thesmallerbang.wordpress.com/...dge-archlinux/

And yeah, please digg it if you like it

hullap · 12-10-2008, 06:30 PM

lol
you got quite many spelling mistakes there

**MetalheadGautham** · 12-10-2008, 06:45 PM

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Originally Posted by hullap

lol
you got quite many spelling mistakes there

i know. me sucks at spelling.

NucleusKore · 12-10-2008, 07:44 PM

Will be trying Arch Linux 64-bit. Am downloading the iso right now.

**kalpik** · 12-10-2008, 08:51 PM

Go Arch go!!

hullap · 12-10-2008, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by NucleusKore

Will be trying Arch Linux 64-bit. Am downloading the iso right now.

if you have any probs(just in case, although its highly unlikely

)
you can always do pacman -S irssi and join our irc channel on vc/2(tty2)

The_Devil_Himself · 12-10-2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

i know. me sucks at spelling.

lame excuse.download dictionaries for whatever browser you are using.

Charan · 12-10-2008, 09:46 PM

@Gautham : Not to spoil your party , but I dont understand why this thread is required to announce you latest blog entry.If you really wanted to share this article then you could have posted the full article. You had already posted this in the Bloggers Thread two days ago. As I see from here.. you are just advertising your site.

Sorry Reported.

EDIT: BTW It is a nice article.

a_k_s_h_a_y · 12-10-2008, 10:23 PM

areey chill yaar. why are you policing the digit forum. just leave it

why even care

be happy !

Charan · 12-10-2008, 11:04 PM

^^ Yes I better leave the forum as well.

slugger · 12-10-2008, 11:21 PM

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Originally Posted by Charan

but I dont understand why this thread is required to announce you latest blog entry.If you really wanted to share this article then you could have posted the full article.......
EDIT: BTW It is a nice article.

+1

Quote:

Originally Posted by a_k_s_h_a_y

areey chill yaar. why are you policing the digit forum. just leave it

why even care

be happy !

-1

Quote:

Originally Posted by Charan

^^ Yes I better leave the forum as well.

-∞

thread must be merged into bloggers corner

a_k_s_h_a_y · 13-10-2008, 12:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Charan

^^ Yes I better leave the forum as well.

i meant leave policing it

haha lol !!
let him share his blog. tomorrow you share yours

as if he is doing some big time crime by linking up

**MetalheadGautham** · 13-10-2008, 02:44 PM

@charan: actually, the post is 2 days old. I only posted it here because some people thought it was above average quality, when the post suddenly appeared in linuxtoday.com, some denmark lug site, and several others, and finally in archlinux forums, without me doing ANYTHING. I ended up as #50 in top wordpress blogs of the day, and then, I thought I can post it here to get more guys into archlinux, thats all. I care not for traffic.

@devil: I installed aspell in arch. Even then, firefox spell checker not working. Any idea why ?

IronManForever · 13-10-2008, 03:51 PM

^^ If the article is good and informative. There are no problems.
But please post the full one here dude. Why not do it right away?

**kalpik** · 13-10-2008, 04:57 PM

I agree with Gautham on this one.. I myself came to his blog via a link on the archlinux forum. When i read it, i didn't even notice it was Gautham's blog lol! Then when he linked it here, i realized it was his blog

I think its ok for him to post an excerpt with a link back to his blog, as the article is original.

Gautham: Good article, keep it up

IronManForever · 13-10-2008, 05:28 PM

^^ Kar diya na barbad?

Ab to woh kisi ki bhi nahi manega; mod ki bhi nahi.

NucleusKore · 13-10-2008, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hullap

if you have any probs(just in case, although its highly unlikely

)
you can always do pacman -S irssi and join our irc channel on vc/2(tty2)

Thanks, will be trying the 32 bit version in virtualbox first

a_k_s_h_a_y · 13-10-2008, 06:33 PM

yeah, he has written the article with soo much love for FOSS and Tux and etc etc

what's so bad about sharing it

**MetalheadGautham** · 14-10-2008, 03:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by NucleusKore

Thanks, will be trying the 32 bit version in virtualbox first

Why don't you directly try the 64bit version ? However, you need to use a workaround for flash to work, and you need to use openjdk instead of standard java.

gary4gar · 16-10-2008, 11:56 AM

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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

@devil: I installed aspell in arch. Even then, firefox spell checker not working. Any idea why ?

install aspell-en

**MetalheadGautham** · 16-10-2008, 12:21 PM

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Originally Posted by gary4gar

install aspell-en

still not w0000rrrrrkkkiiiinnnnggg. If it worked, the 3rd word would have been underlined in red in firefox...

gary4gar · 16-10-2008, 12:59 PM

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Originally Posted by MetalheadGautham

still not w0000rrrrrkkkiiiinnnnggg. If it worked, the 3rd word would have been underlined in red in firefox...

Hmm, weird.
by installing aspell & aspell-en packages you should have system wide spell check. Also for firefox you can load English Dict.

Try Restarting the Application?

**MetalheadGautham** · 16-10-2008, 02:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gary4gar

Hmm, weird.
by installing aspell & aspell-en packages you should have system wide spell check. Also for firefox you can load English Dict.

Try Restarting the Application?

Hell yeah I restarted. Isn't it obvious ? I can't run firefox when pacman runs. My system is not fast enough for that

Anyway, I am going to give English Dict a shot. Let me see if it works.