On Thu, 08 Oct 2009, David C. Rankin wrote: > On Wednesday 07 October 2009 12:54:22 pm jozefk@xxxxxxx wrote: > > Usually I don't have too much time for pulling my hear or for > > anything else that's why I like when things just works. Even if I > > need to fix things it's OK but sometimes I can't fix them just like > > that for few minutes. I read the news, I went to #archlinux, I sent a > > message here in the list but still nothing. > > Then I search the forum and tried different things until once it > > start working again. Few days I didn't touch anything at all. Really > > didn't have time. > > I still can't try any other OS here because I spent too much time > > setting this Arch up and configuring. It's my baby :)) It looks and > > works beautiful. Except after Syu; but not always. Most of the time > > things just work... Can't just say goodbye to Arch so easily. But if > > once it will happen that I really can't fix something, that will be > > the moment... I guess. > > Anyway, I'll try to buy another PC and install something else... > > > > Remember it well. I was just like that with the first Mandrake server I set up > for my office a decade ago. Then you learn that Linux is fairly indestructible > and that no matter what config changes happen along the way, a bit of reading > of the latest release notes and a bit of tweaking and anything can be brought > back to life. > > As for looking at another OS, it's great to experiment, but I'd be willing to > wager that you find your way back to Arch. By far the most current, responsive > and cleanest I've found. (I've tried a lot) Updates are going to causes > changes in configs, etc. occasionally, that's just progress. One thing that > really helps if you are using your linux box in a critical role is to setup > another 'testing' box to test updates on and confirm all is well before > updating the box you rely on. That will virtually eliminate any downtime. With > P4 3.0GHz boxes being excessed for as little as $60 it's cheap insurance. Yeah, learned the same. I takes some time in the beginning to get familiar with things in Linux, like how everything works and all other things. And by that time I actually destroyed my system many times :) Especailly when I start trying out bash commands as root haha That was really long time ago. Those were the beginnings... Yes I tried many Linux distributions and only with Arch I'm satisfied. Actually I didn't try all distros of course, because they are many. But I read about them. One by one. Talk to other people using them. Asked them different questions and many distros I tried but when I found out about Arch I felt I'm at home :) In the same time I found out about PC-BSD but somehow it happened I installed Arch first, to try it. Right now I'm typing you this message from the same Arch installation :) So I never tried anything else since that time. I'm still curious about BSD because never try it before. I used OS X on G5 for 2 years in the office but OS X is different than BSD right? Must to buy another PC or laptop for testing. P4 3.0GHz? My current PC is like 3 years old and it's P4 3.2GHz HT :) Still using integrated graphic on motherboard and I'm happy :)) -- Best, Jozsef Kurucity | Web & Graphic Designer +971 50 6783113 | jozefk@xxxxxxx
