securitybreach Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 The early years Judd Vinet, a Canadian programmer and occasional guitarist, began developing Arch Linux in early 2001. Its first formal release, Arch Linux 0.1, was on March 11, 2002. Inspired by the elegant simplicity of Slackware, Polish Linux Distribution, and CRUX, and yet disappointed with their lack of package management at the time; Vinet built his own distribution on similar principles as those distros. But, he also wrote a package management program called pacman, to automatically handle package installation, removal, and upgrades. The middle years The early Arch community grew steadily, as evidenced by this chart of forum posts, users, and bug reports. Moreover, it was from its early days known as an open, friendly, and helpful community. The dawning of the age of A. Griffin In late 2007, Judd Vinet retired from active participation as an Arch developer, and smoothly transferred the reins over to American programmer Aaron Griffin, aka Phrakture, who remains the lead Arch developer to this day. Over the years, the Arch community continued to grow and mature, and has recently received an unusual amount of attention and review for a Linux distro of its modest size. Arch developers remain unpaid, part-time volunteers, and there are no prospects for monetizing Arch Linux, so it will remain free in all senses of the word. Those curious to peruse more detail about Arch's development history can browse the Arch entry in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. https://wiki.archlin...y_of_Arch_Linux Arch Linux 0.1 (Homer) released 2002-03-11 - Judd Vinet I've finally got a bootable iso image on the ftp site. The bad news is that you don't get a pretty interactive installer. But if you wanted one of those, you would have gone with RedHat, right? Here's a short list of some future plans for 0.2: Document ABS (Arch Build System) and provide a cvs-like update method so people can start building their own packages. Finish the contrib area and start posting third-party packages. Finish pacman 1.2 -- this will allow you to update your entire system with the latest stable version of all packages, all with one command. Add a pretty interactive installer. Add more documentation -- our docs really suck right now. Please! If you have questions, just ask! Also, if you want to help out in any way, please let me know. I'm a student so my free time comes and goes at the will of my evil profs. I'll try to get the docs up for ABS (Arch Build System) which, IMHO, is one of the best advantages of Arch. With ABS, you can easily create new packages, and it's trivial to rebuild existing packages with your own customizations. And on that note, if you start to use the ABS and build your own packages, I welcome your submissions. My "development team" is working on a contrib area as we speak. https://www.archlinu...homer-released/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 12, 2014 Share Posted March 12, 2014 Way to go Happy Burpday Arch 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Happy Birthday, young Arch Linux! You had some great inspiration in the beginning there. You'll grow up to be a really super-dooper distribution one of these days. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 13, 2014 Author Share Posted March 13, 2014 Happy Birthday, young Arch Linux! You had some great inspiration in the beginning there. You'll grow up to be a really super-dooper distribution one of these days. Yeah well, we all know Slackware is the oldest distro still being developed. Slackware is 21 now I believe..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Thought I'd celebrate by trying a VBox Arch install. Josh 's tutorial was a great start. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Happy Birthday ArchLinux! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Slackware and Debian are getting pretty old. They're starting to display symptoms of MCI... mild cognitive impairment. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 Slackware and Debian are getting pretty old. They're starting to display symptoms of MCI... mild cognitive impairment. Not to mention their installers..... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 13, 2014 Share Posted March 13, 2014 What?! What's wrong with ncurses? I wouldn't know how to use any other kind of installer. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 I love ncurses apps! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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securitybreach Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 Beautiful simplicity!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 An old one but so true!! From the lead developer of Archlinux: ]"Relying on complex tools to manage and build your system is going to hurt the end users. [...] "If you try to hide the complexity of the system, you'll end up with a more complex system". Layers of abstraction that serve to hide internals are never a good thing. Instead, the internals should be designed in a way such that they NEED no hiding." --- Aaron Griffin[/b] http://phraktured.net/arch-way.html 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 Beautiful simplicity!! Apart from the KDE crud. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I love KDE since they fixed it LOL! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abarbarian Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I love KDE since they fixed it LOL! I'm having a minimalistic phase. KDE is very pretty an I could be persuaded to use it apart from the fact that the KDE package is bigger than some os's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 But...But...I was referring to human rather than graphics installers. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
securitybreach Posted March 14, 2014 Author Share Posted March 14, 2014 Apart from the KDE crud. I was referring to the ncurses installer not the choice of packages. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raymac46 Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I don't think I've ever seen a nicer version of KDE 4 than Mageia puts out...but I'm still not tempted to use it. I go in and play with it in VirtualBox once in a while. There has never been an easier DE for me to screw up a display with and then my only solution is: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest LilBambi Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I haven't broken KDE in over a year now. That's when I decided to try it again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 An old one but so true!! From the lead developer of Archlinux: http://phraktured.net/arch-way.html And yet, Arch went with systemd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
V.T. Eric Layton Posted March 14, 2014 Share Posted March 14, 2014 I love KDE since they fixed it LOL! I ran KDE again last year after a long hiatus from that WM. I found it to be much more stable and usable than the previous 4.x versions had been. However, being a bit of a minimalist, I went back to Xfce4 when I upgraded to Slackware 14.1 a few months ago. The difference this time is I also allowed Slack to install the entire KDE base and lib files, so I have all the KDE apps included in my Xfce4 menu. I like K3b, Ocular, etc. But...But...I was referring to human rather than graphics installers. Ah! Seems I just proved your point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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