Finally back to blogging ways, want able to connect to the net for a long time thanks to various exams!
I, as far as I know, have always been messing around with distros, fedora->ubuntu->zenwalk (all were too easy). -> Gentoo(Give me a break compiling everything is BORING). -> FreeBSD (now thats like it but bsd had a different nomenclature of hard drives(Googd but not for college stuff where Linux is taught) -> mandriva( ScriptDevil vomits) -> Underground( Thats OK , still something lagging) -> Crux( Couldnt set the damn thing up -> lilo kept throwing errors) -> Arch Linux == "Haven"
ArchLinux thoroughly swept me off my feet. It rocked . All you need is 200 MB of downloads and then a blank cd to write to, pop it in the drive and voila.
There you go . Arch Does not have the simplistic Ubuntu type install, but it si really simple. It is for those linux users who feel a few whacky commands in command line is OK
I got the distro installed, and configured rc.conf (with lilo, grub gave me troubles)
Then used one magical command
pacman -Syu
Thsi updated my full ssytem(Dont forget to run /sbin/lilo for updating it to understand the new kernel).
The next step?
pacman -Sy xorg hwd
next hwd -x Thsi created Xorg.conf.hwd file which i then copied to xorg.conf
the pacman -S fluxbox
then open .xinitrc and the unmask #exec fluxbox (use exec startfluxbox for better results)
Then i added the packages as and when required using pacman -Sy (pacman -S if u did a -Sy sometime near)
This distro is all set to rool the roost soon. It is #20 on distrowatch but the league table is silly, dumb bloated fedora in #3 while great gentoo, slack, freebsd.. far behind.