Arch Linux
My History With Arch Linux
Nowadays I find myself using Windows less and less, aside from the occasional game that doesn't work with steam(6) or wine(1). When it comes to desktop operating systems (OS) I am extremely picky. Heck I attempted to use FreeBSD (yes, the server OS) as a desktop OS for many years until finally admitting to myself that things I wanted for that OS just were not going to happen. As of 2010 I had been fishing around for new flavors of Linux to try out. I figured how hard could it be, after all my first dive into *nix/*bsd was with Slackware in 1998. I tried Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, openSUSE, Gentoo, and a few others before finally turning toward Arch Linux. From the moment I installed it I was hooked, whether its the extensive ArchWiki, or the fact that the Arch Linux Forums hostname is an homage to the old BBS systems of yesteryear *tear*.
Getting into Arch Linux was really easy as someone coming from FreeBSD being that pacman is very similar to ports. While something like Gentoo or CRUX might be technically closer to FreeBSD in design and scope, I personally believe Arch Linux and FreeBSD are the closest when it comes to community, documentation and philosophy.
New to Linux?
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Obtaining Arch Linux
The following is a list of links to get you started on obtaining Arch Linux. Arch Linux can be obtained for a USB, optical, or PXE boot. All available images can be either written to an optical media or USB, using a utility like dd(1), or mounted (if installing inside a virtual machine). For PXE/netboot refer to the link below. These are intended for new installations only; an existing Arch Linux system can always be updated with pacman(8).
Arch Linux Tutorials
Beginner
- System Installation
- Coming Soon!
Intermediate
- Coming Soon!
Advanced
- Coming Soon!
Personal Notes
Pages in category "Arch Linux"
The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total.
