Re: [Staffslug] Staffslug Digest, Vol 24, Issue 27

On 29/10/2007, Martin Cox <martin.a.cox(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: I was up for switching distro anyway, so I thought I'd give Arch a try. I Yes, there's something weird going on with VM, create a Red Hat machine but call it ArchLinux that'll sort you out. :-) I eventually installed it over the top of Ubuntu on my laptop anyway, so See above. I only downloaded the base install .iso (I'm not even sure whether there's a dick_turpin looks really worried now as he will be called upon for help :-/ You'll need to install KDE or Gnome if you want compiz-fusion, soft as it sounds, you may be better off installing GDM even if you plum for KDE (That's what I have) once that's done you'll need to edit rc.conf and add them there (there's no bleedin /etc/init.d by the way) have a look on the Arch wiki as that gives you all you need for setting it up. Who's the guy who organises the meeting at Keele? Does he work there? No he's a bum ;-) Well, up until last night I was running Ubuntu 7.04 on my laptop, I quite > like it. However, it gets a little bit boring - all my hardware was working > as expected, most apps that I needed were already installed etc, nothing > left to do really. And you're complaining?? Sounds like Linux heaven to me. While I'm not personally a fan of Ubuntu I do have it installed on an IBM X20 I prefer Arch or openSUSE I'll be bringing my ArchLinux lappy to the meet so you can have a look if you come along and see compiz-fusion do its thing "Catch that paper dart Stuart". -- Regards Dick Turpin http://www.cannon-linux.co.uk Arch Linux is an independent i686-optimized community distribution for intermediate and advanced Linux users. Utilising a Rolling Release System packages are regularly updated and an ISO release is just a snapshot to the stable packages at that time. So there's no need for a fresh install the command 'pacman –Syu' upgrades the whole system.