My frustrations with kubuntu have been growling lately as in latest stuff is always available with the aplhas of next release and are prone to bugs which can affect the core work of me. Of course I can run my kubuntu with PPA's which can give me the bleeding edge stuff. What I wanted was bleeding edge and some stability. The moment I tried arch linux in my virtual box I knew I am gonna love it and I am not disappointed.
What arch offers is a simple system which follows the KISS principle.What ever you want configure and the result is a system that is fast and has only stuff that is ac tally needed.
What ever I need right from X, kde I had to configure and install myself.
And arch linux has a vast resources of wiki pages which will instruct us to set up our system the way we and and its complete and almost perfect.
What I am interested most is KDE and I love it. There is a project called chakra project which has their own tweaked kde versions which provides extra eyecandy on top of arch and excellent tools like shaman(package manager).
What I liked is also the fact that arch has rolling release schedule which suites my taste. As soon as a new version appears I can have it no need to wait for the next distribution release or add new PPA's for the same
Sunday, September 13, 2009
Kubuntu -> Arch Linux
After 4 years with kubuntu I finally moved to arch linux. I have been thinking for a while to switch to arch linux, ever since my not so good experience with jaunty. I have been trying out karmic alphas and as of last Friday I was running a fully updated karmic alpha 5. Then on Friday I switched to arch Linux. I was planning to complete the set on Friday from office itself, but the initial cd I burned was damaged and I thought I can complete the setup back home.
Before trying out set up myself I tried it on virtual box and my initial impression was just awesome.
Before last Friday I had a dual boot setup with XP and kubuntu karmic alpha. I was planning to install arch on the same ext4 partition as karmic, but the partition manager in arch installer was cribbing about bad cylinder something in my extended partition where karmic have been. (I forgot the exact error. Bad memory). Then I thought why I need the dual boot setup. So I decided to remove XP completely and have arch alone. So I gave the installer permission to use the entire hard disk and it did.
The setup took barely 15 minutes and then I booted into my arch Linux. Well only thing I had was a terminal no desktop environment and all. It was a plain system with and I had to setup what ever I wanted to have.
It already been a long post The configuration hassles I will follow up in another post.
Before trying out set up myself I tried it on virtual box and my initial impression was just awesome.
Before last Friday I had a dual boot setup with XP and kubuntu karmic alpha. I was planning to install arch on the same ext4 partition as karmic, but the partition manager in arch installer was cribbing about bad cylinder something in my extended partition where karmic have been. (I forgot the exact error. Bad memory). Then I thought why I need the dual boot setup. So I decided to remove XP completely and have arch alone. So I gave the installer permission to use the entire hard disk and it did.
The setup took barely 15 minutes and then I booted into my arch Linux. Well only thing I had was a terminal no desktop environment and all. It was a plain system with and I had to setup what ever I wanted to have.
It already been a long post The configuration hassles I will follow up in another post.
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