Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Re: top five mistakes of newbies

A bonus for me is that my son runs it and he lives 2 minutes from me. :) He
is a former Gentoo guy, so knows how to build a distro. He is also a big KDE
advocate, as am I.

I believe that you are right about the wiki. I have heard good things about
it and Arch in general rocks.

Cheers,
Roy

Using Kubuntu 10.10 Maverick Meerkat, 64-bit
Location: Canada

On 15 October 2010 19:11, Scott <scottro@nyc.rr.com> wrote:

>
>
> On Fri, Oct 15, 2010 at 06:21:44PM -0400, Roy wrote:
> > Thanks Scott. I will give it a shot soon. First I want to install Fedora
> 14,
> > but Arch is on my list.
>
> Remember, don't trust me on this. :) Their wiki, however, is REALLY
> good.
>
> A quick look at the wiki indicates that there are a bunch of different
> tools for it.
>
> http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR_Helpers
>
> Now, which ones are good, I'm afraid I don't know. What I like about
> Arch is that I'm really pretty much a CLI person, and it gets in my way
> less than others--also, its smaller, and probably more technically
> proficient community means more respect between developers and users,
> than say Fedora, where I just saw the quote (about NVidia) ..."then you
> bring in the expectations of the people who work on Fedora, not run it."
> Which adds credence to the oft heard lament, "Do these developers
> actually *use* this garbage they're developing?"
>
>
>
> --
> Scott Robbins
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> gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6
>
>
>

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