May 062009
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 ).
[...] Mandriva-only mode 2009.1 simply rocks . [...]
Hehehe, my first distros were Red Hat, Slackware 2 and Mandriva!!
And after using PCLinuxOS 2007 as my distro for family and friends, I am back to Mandriva 2009 KDE4.2 to fill that role.
My 7 year old has it running on the Dell Mini netbook and he says its much ‘cooler looking that the thing for old ladies that you had on before’ (!!!) From 7 yr old experts to 77 yr old newbies, everyone feels at east with Mandriva.
You still have linux_logo in contrib.
(I’ve changed it to use the Mandriva ascii graphics for /etc/issue rather than the old classic one tyou’re referring to hough, but you can get it back with ‘linux_logo -c’