![]() ![]() For example, most configuration exists on the editable /etc/rc.conf file, and you might also need to edit the /etc/rc.local or /etc/conf.d/wireless files. There are no GUI tools to take care most of the configuration, but it’s so easy to learn to use the system was it was supposed to be used that this is not a problem. What I like in Arch most of all though it’s its simplicity. It boots fast (20-22 seconds on my P4 laptop) and it it’s generally speedy when operating too. ![]() Speed is also one of the great features of Arch Linux. Moreover, it is still possible to start up a fully functioning Gnome with only 50 MBs of user-consumed RAM (acpid, dbus, hal, fam, gdm also loaded), while the default configurations of the big-4 distributions require well over 100 MBs of RAM - making them pretty impossible to run on 128 MB RAM machines. Fewer buggy packages make it to -Current or -Extra trees these days and the ones that do are quickly fixed by the very helpful hackers in the Bugzilla. But what really stands out compared to the user experience of the 1-2 years ago is the package stability. Arch has seen some cool new additions lately: a special mkinitrd utility, network profiles, ACPI support, NetworkManager in the “Testing” tree and more. ![]() Since then, while the distro-specific innovations have slowed a bit down, maturity and stability has emerged. It’s been over a year since the last time I reviewed ( 1, 2) the Linux distribution that I use most of the time, Arch Linux. ![]()
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