Introductions

Firstly, welcome.

Some of you may know that I haven’t had any sort of blog in a fairly long time. The last time I decided that I wanted to take up blogging, it only lasted for about a month before the initial intrest started to wane. I have a feeling that this time things will be a little different though. I have a clear goal in mind – this blog is going to be about Arch Linux and my adventures with it.

First I would like to let my potential readers know a little about where I am comming from. I have been using some varient of GNU/Linux since late August 2007. I am getting very close to the mark where I have been using Linux for two years. There have only been a few months here and there that I haven’t been using Linux. For the most part, it has been Linux all the way.

I started out using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn if I remember correctly. I absolutely loved the ideologies surounding the entire FLOSS scene. That was the thing that got me hooked. I learned as much as I could when I could. As the months went past, I wanted to try out a few different distros. These included the likes of openSUSE, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. I might have tried a few others here and there, but those were the main other 4 that I installed and actually used for any period of time.

I had always heard about Arch Linux. Some people said that it was like Gentoo but for wimps, others said that it would really teach me the ins and outs of Linux, and yet others said that I should stop being such a stake in the side of computing and go back to Windows! Well, I have to tell you that I have no intention of doing the latter. Hopefully I will gain a good amount of knowledge from this venture. Hopefully I will have a fun time as well.

Because I have already started my adventures with Arch Linux, for the first week or so of this blog the timing of things might be slightly lagged. Don’t worry though, it will still be in the correct chronological order. And this lagging of posts and their actual occurence will only occur until I have written about what has already happened.

As for now, I shall stat by explaining what I shall be using Arch Linux on:

Zhora – an old HP Compaq Presario which I will be using as the main test machine. Zhora has 1024MB of RAM and a AMD Sempron 3200+ processor. This should be plenty of power to run Arch Linux on, or so I have read in many places.

Pris – my main rig. I will be running Arch Linux on Pris inside a VBox virtual machine. Pris is basically the best endowed machine that I have at the moment. She is currently running Intrepid Ibex, has 4GB of RAM, 1.5TB of storage, and an Intel Core 2 Due E8400 (3GHz). There should be plenty of clock cycles to spare for Arch I should think =]

In closing, I hope you all come along with me on my adventure. I’m sure you will have as much fun as I will. Hopefully we can all learn something together!

-NovaAesa

Some of you may know that I haven’t had any sort of blog in a fairly long time. The last time I decided that I wanted to take up blogging, it only lasted for about a month before the initial intrest started to wane. I have a feeling that this time things will be a little different though. I have a clear goal in mind – this blog is going to be about Arch Linux and my adventures with it.

First I would like to let my potential readers know a little about where I am comming from. I have been using some varient of GNU/Linux since late August 2007. I am getting very close to the mark where I have been using Linux for two years. There have only been a few months here and there that I haven’t been using Linux. For the most part, it has been Linux all the way.

I started out using Ubuntu Feisty Fawn if I remember correctly. I absolutely loved the ideologies surounding the entire FLOSS scene. That was the thing that got me hooked. I learned as much as I could when I could. As the months went past, I wanted to try out a few different distros. These included the likes of openSUSE, Linux Mint, Debian, and Fedora. I might have tried a few others here and there, but those were the main other 4 that I installed and actually used for any period of time.

I had always heard about Arch Linux. Some people said that it was like Gentoo but for wimps, others said that it would really teach me the ins and outs of Linux, and yet others said that I should stop being such a stake in the side of computing and go back to Windows! Well, I have to tell you that I have no intention of doing the latter. Hopefully I will gain a good amount of knowledge from this venture. Hopefully I will have a fun time as well.

Because I have already started my adventures with Arch Linux, for the first week or so of this blog the timing of things might be slightly lagged. Don’t worry though, it will still be in the correct chronological order. And this lagging of posts and their actual occurence will only occur until I have written about what has already happened.

As for now, I shall stat by explaining what I shall be using Arch Linux on:

• Zhora – an old HP Compaq Presario which I will be using as the main test machine. Zhora has 1024MB of RAM and a AMD Sempron 3200+ processor. This should be plenty of power to run Arch Linux on, or so I have read in many places.
• Pris – my main rig. I will be running Arch Linux on Pris inside a VBox virtual machine. Pris is basically the best endowed machine that I have at the moment. She is currently running Intrepid Ibex Jaunty Jacklope, has 4GB of RAM, 1.5TB of storage, and an Intel Core 2 Due E8400 (3GHz). There should be plenty of clock cycles to spare for Arch I should think =]

In closing, I hope you all come along with me on my adventure. I’m sure you will have as much fun as I will. Hopefully we can all learn something together!

-NovaAesa

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