I was once again battling against the lack of free space on my hard disk (mp3 collection grows up, and I don’t have the courage to delete most of the things), so I ended up removing my Arch Linux partition. It was my default OS for about 3 years, it is one of the best distros around in my opinion, and I recommend it for anyone interesting in having a fully-customizable, dynamic, extremely fast and tunable system. But right now I am using Mandriva on all my machines, for several reasons:

  • 2009.1 simply rocks :) .
  • with the time, most of my scripts became distribution-independent (they work the same way on arch, Mandriva, Ubuntu, Fedora, and (sometimes) even FreeBSD).
  • There are some things that chroots and VMs cannot do for you. So I end up using Mandriva daily anyway.
  • The rolling-release style of life of Archlinux is pretty much similar to cooker (except that cooker breaks much more often). So I still feel like home :) .
  • The latest Arch Linux updates broke my X11, and it was too boring to look deeper into it..

In some kind I feel I am back to the origins – my first Linux distributions were Slackware 2, Conectiva 3 and Mandrake 6 (…and their ’sarcastic penguin’ console ascii art which I miss a lot :) ).