the Arch Linux thread

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Its one huge piece of software too.

Then use Kaboodle.

Getting a software with media management itself means that you are trying to do something heavy.

Thats why I use only one software for all my audio/video needs: Kaffeine, the all in one light weight media player. But I am experimenting with Kaboodle at the moment.

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Thats why I use only one software for all my audio/video needs: Kaffeine, the all in one light weight media player. But I am experimenting with Kaboodle at the moment.

I use MPD for my Audio. As for Video I barely watch any .

 

[ray|raven]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Thats why I use only one software for all my audio/video needs: Kaffeine, the all in one light weight media player.

Hahaha , Yeah and Filled-Void here is Santa Claus in disguise.

Seriously dude , before making such claims, how abt posting some solid evidence?

Ever tried using SMPlayer or Gmome MPlayer ?
They're a hell lot lighter than Kaffeine. And for music try Sonata/Gimmix , they organize a library and play music without gobbling up resources.

 

[MetalheadGautham]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Hahaha , Yeah and Filled-Void here is Santa Claus in disguise.

Seriously dude , before making such claims, how abt posting some solid evidence?

Ever tried using SMPlayer or Gmome MPlayer ?
They're a hell lot lighter than Kaffeine. And for music try Sonata/Gimmix , they organize a library and play music without gobbling up resources.

kaffeine just has waaaay too many features compared to smplayer or gmplayer.

 

[Rahim]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

^^Amarok is THE best audio player available. It pwns iTunes, Rhythembox, Banshee, and every other audio player out there.

abey yeh mujhe pataa hai.....just wanted a lighweight (non-gtk) one and not a bloat (as it defeats the very purpose of using Arch)

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

just wanted a lighweight (non-gtk) one and not a bloat (as it defeats the very purpose of using Arch)

Try configuring MPD and then use Sonata or one of the other front ends.

 

[gary4gar]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

I have managed to install Arch on Lappy, trying to download KDEmod but speeds are hell lot slow.Fillied comes to resuce and promised me to send DVD.
Thank you Biju
[offtopic]
On my PC right, now i am stuck with Live Cds, i HDD got Burned due to shorting of wires.
i think is wrongly plugged power cable. actually i have no clue what happened, as soon as i plugged the SATA power connector and started there was some noise coming out of PC. and it out turned of. after many attempts, it didn't boot. i checked up HDD, there is a burning smell coming out of it.
Off sh!t, Look what i did.

Damn, this shiny new HDD had just arrived 2days back from RMA. wonder if they Accel people would still accept it again.
[/offtopic]

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

I have managed to install Arch on Lappy, trying to download KDEmod but speeds are hell lot slow.Fillied comes to resuce and promised me to send DVD.
Thank you Biju

You should get it in two days .

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

I use mpd for music and dragon player for videos on KDE

 

[shady_inc]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Which mirror offers is good speeds for pacman.? I have the Israel server selected in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, but it gives inconsistent speeds.

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Which mirror offers is good speeds for pacman.? I have the Israel server selected in /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist, but it gives inconsistent speeds.

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

 

[humanbeing]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

first edit /etc/pacman.conf and make available unstable ,community repos

 

[gary4gar]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

I don't understand why speeds are more in morning?

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

I guess the time difference represents lesser traffic in the servers but I've seen a few people having the same experience. However note that I do get 50-80 kbps in the nights as well . When I meant fast speeds I meant like 100k + .

 

[shady_inc]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Use the Rankmirror script. It is recommended that you move it from the default servers. Rearrange the servers based on the output of the above script. Also I have noticed the best speeds when updating during the morning.

Too bad I have Night unlimited and not Morning unlimited. Anyway, will try the script before I download KDE 4.1 [hope it's in Arch package database ] tonight.
BTW, the rolling release of Arch is totally FTW.! It upgrades your Linux kernel too, unlike other distros in which you have to *gasp* recompile it.!! I'm lovin' it.!

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Too bad I have Night unlimited and not Morning unlimited. Anyway, will try the script before I download KDE 4.1 [hope it's in Arch package database ] tonight.

I am on Night Unlimited. The instructions and the link on how to install 4.1 is in this thread. Go to the previous page I have pasted the links.

BTW, the rolling release of Arch is totally FTW.! It upgrades your Linux kernel too, unlike other distros in which you have to *gasp* recompile it.!! I'm lovin' it.!

Hmmm . I thought Ubuntu used to do it itself . maybe I might have misunderstood what you meant.

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Hmmm . I thought Ubuntu used to do it itself . maybe I might have misunderstood what you meant.

Ubuntu isn't rolling release. I believe it can be made a rolling release, like debian, by swtiching to stable/unstable/testing release. You can do so in fedora too by using rawhide. Debain by using sid or stable/testing/unstable.

 

[FilledVoid]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Its not a rolling release but I thought the kernel upgrades were automatic. Which is why I had 4 entries to 4 different kernels in my grub?

 

[mehulved]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

Well, all binary distros supply a pre-compiled kernel, nothing new in that. Just gentoo needs kernel to be compiled, but you have gen-kernel script for automatically building that too, if you prefer.

*imgs.xkcd.com/comics/cautionary.png

 

[humanbeing]

Re: The Dark Side :Arch Linux

the pity is gen-kernel script is the only option to generate a mkinitramfs for the kernel .although mkinitrd tool is there .while most other distros allows tools mkinitramfstools by default.

gentoo ...!