I haven’t really hit any snags with installing Arch, which leaves me with little to blog about the process. I’m slowly copying over stuff from my laptop and my desktop Slackware install, which is tedious. For bringing over Firefox stuff, the extensions FEBE, CLEO, and OPIE have been extremely helpful.
I’ve installed The Chakra Project’s [...]
Configuring xorg and alsa went without much to write about. But since I’m posting tedious details, here’s the not much.
With help from hal, the latest xorg stuff is reported to work without a config file for a lot of people. After installing X, I tried that. X started, but with the wrong resolution, and the [...]
Since I’m getting large sets of packages to install on a different computer, I was stuck with some time to spend at Arch’s virtual console. I installed lynx and elinks so I could read some news, but I found it a bit tough with the eighty-column display. I had planned on making uvesafb work at [...]
I’m trying out Arch GNU/Linux, with an eye toward switching my desktop to it from Slackware. Arch is supposed to give vanilla installs of software and leave it up the the user to configure however is wanted. Arch has a package manager which resolves dependencies and can work with build scripts. And Arch uses a [...]