Roo’s Ramblings

So a minor release for AL has finally come out (Nipple or something). It’s good to see AL still marching on. Things have felt slightly sluggish recently with all the libslay stuff. I mean that with no disrespect to those working in the background - I know lots of people have been working really hard. Now that it’s out of the way we can continue to look forward to other improvements like an updated installer and libpacman to name but two.

It made me think though about my time with Arch over the past 8 1/2 months. It surprises me that I’m still using a distro for this long. It’s not all been plain sailing either - I seem to have regular problems with my Centrino wireless after the occasional pacman -Syu. I’d have normally switched by now to see what else is happening with other distros. However, I’m feeling strangely loyal and have stuck with AL even when I sometimes hungered for a simpler life.

I therefore thought it a good idea to write a follow-up to my previous Arch-related article, A Week in the Life of an Arch Linux Newbie. I thought I’d write about all the cool things AL has been upto over the past 8 months. Such an article may also quell some the complaining in the forums about our Distrowatch position - a bit of publicity to let the Linux-world know that AL is getting on with business; head down, just working

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