Hello all.
On 24/04/11 16:08, Chuck Hallenbeck wrote:
Hi Cheryl,
My own experience is narrower than yours: I went from Slackware to
Debian to Arch, and have not implemented any GUI support here. Here are
my main reasons:
1. It is simple, assuming a moderately skilled user.
Is there an accessible installer?
Does it need hardware synth or can we do it using software synth like
espeak?
2. The package manager and archiving methods are impressively designed,
and easy to use.
Wonderful.
Can I also have Gnome on it?
3. The package maintainers perform minimal tinkering with upstream
material, primarily just packaging those materials, not second-guessing
developers. The result is that upstream innovations often appear in
the arch archives very early.
wonderful, this is great news!
Can we by any ways remaster Arch like we can do with Ubuntu?
That is to say, can we create a special cd or dvd that contains arch
with what ever we have put in?
4. The concept of "rolling release" eliminates two issues that were
problematic for me in my earlier experience with Linux, i.e.:
4-A. The concern that I might be using somewhat older versions of some
applications than might be available, e.g. in unstable rather than
testing, or experimental rather than unstable, etc.
4-B. The nightmare of performaing a major upgrade when a new official
release is announced. I give no examples of such problems, other than
to say that they drove me from Slackware to Debian, and then from
Debian to Arch. I perform a very simple upgrade procedure once a day or
maybe every other day, and in two years have had only minor issues a
couple of times, issues that were cleared up very quickly, often within
hours.
This gets even more interesting.
I am thinking of creating commertial distro of linux and propose to set
a non profit organisation to support it.
I want to know if arch indeed has the accessible installer.
And is it possible to setup Gnome?
Further more, I can download the entire Debian or Ubuntu mirror and
change the sources.list file to refer to my local version of that repo/
mirror.
I have a 4 mbps line at my institute where I did this stunt.
So I keep it on my external hard disk and I can install any software,
whereever I go even when there is no internet connection.
I want to know if this is possible with Arch.
5. You mentioned consulting the arch wiki, and that's useful for Linux
users in general, but even more useful for archers in particular of
course. There are also active mailing lists for users and developers,
and a growing community of blind users, thanks largely to Chris
Brannon's modifications to the standard installation iso and his
dedicated support.
Hey, where is this modified ISO?
And what is its name?
One caution: Arch Linux does not support as broad an array of hardware
as do other distributions. If you do not use an i686 or an x86-64
system, look elsewhere.
Happy hacking.
Krishnakant.
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