Well, when I ran Debian Unstable, I did run into some situations where stuff broke. But With Arch using the same concept, one would think that possible. But The fact that Arch sticks to more tested/stable versions of given packages, this has been much less. I ran into a couple times where something didn't quite work or update but I reported the incident and the fix came back within a day each time. Contrast this with what many corporate customers demand; they don't want any changes so they end up with some old ancient distro like Centos or Redhat corporate edition. Yes, you're right; the Arch wiki is an excellent resource for documentation. For networking, my Arch machine is just hard wired so I don't really know much about how wireless stuff works with Arch Linux. I have a laptop which can use wireless but Arch won't boot on it; it has too little memory to run anything over Slackware 12.0 <sigh>. On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 11:01:20AM -0700, Keith Hinton wrote: > Steve, I was curious what you meant recently when you said: "What surprises > me about it is it resembles Debian Unstable but yet mostly production > versions of applications are used and it very rarely breaks." > I believe you use Arch yourself, right..so why should that surprise you? > Also, the Arch Linux wiki has a lot of documentation that is well-written if > you ask me. > Arch has an installation process that I find to be a lot easier in most > cases than other installations. > I mean..the number of steps to installing Gentoo is far more than Arch, if > you ask me. > I also like how Arch doesn't cause a lot of stuff you don't need running > even on the LiveCD environment. So many LiveCDs I find are running ssh, and > a billion of other services that you don't even require in a live > environment. The other big point I'd like to make is that not only do other > services run on most CDs I've tested, but so many of them try to > automatically probe for Eth0 and activate it. I don't like that. In my case, > I couldn't have that happening in any case because I use a wireless network > over here. While I find Ethernet a more simpol technology in general with > Linux or anything else as a dhcpcd eth0 is required the number of connected > cables poses an issue. > What about yourself? > As for handeling wireless on my laptop when I'm in a hurry I store all my > configuration settings in a network profile for that particular network. > > > Regards, --Keith > Skype: skypedude1234 > Twitter/AIM/Yahoo: keithint1234 > MSN: keithint37 at hotmail.com > Facebook: http://facebook.com/keith.hinton1 > Website: http://www.keithnet.us > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
