Arch Linux

[dedanna1029]

Oh yay. :p

[dedanna1029]

So, the hard drive running for two damn minutes on login? Guess what it is?

After all that EFFING WORK I did to get it to STOP, it's frikking cron & updatedb! An update *somewhere* changed it AGAIN! Am I pissed? YEEEEEEAAAAAAAAHHH!

[viking60]

You are so good at getting pissed. No one does it better But on the positive side things will be running smother now then?

[dedanna1029]

Yeah, if I can figure out a way to not have to wait on that. An update had to have effed it up. Lookie here:

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:) ls /etc/cron.hourly
adjtime
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 13:23:56 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.daily
bashfr   logrotate  man-db  pkgfile  shadow  updatedb
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 13:24:07 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.weekly
.:[ dedanna@dedanna.rocks.net : 13:24:30 : ~ ]:.
:) ls /etc/cron.monthly
---> (I had moved it from cron.daily to here, there *was* nothing else anywhere) --->updatedb

Okay, time to do a sh!t-ton of cron moving again.

bashfr, nearest I can tell, is for fortune-mod. Correct me if I'm wrong please. logrotate, that's obvious, along with updatedb. I'm wondering if the rest is necessary.

Edit: Screw it, I'm moving them to weekly.

[viking60]

Arch has the 6th spot on Distrowatch these days and is breading down Suse's neck for the 5th place! It is somewhat surprising to me that Arch is ahead of a distro like PCLOS. Clearly PCLOS has a user friendly and easier installation procedure and an easy out of the box experience. Mandriva has lost a lot due to the financial problems and the following uncertainties. This is interesting. Archlinux is a distro for somewhat experienced connoisseurs and that must mean that people are getting experienced on Linux out there. It is rock solid and bleeding edge (and if it is not it is your own fault). Because you alone decide what to install on it. The Arch way and KISS has a broader appeal than I had anticipated. Arch is older than Ubuntu and has the best package manager out there. It is a fascinating distro and my Arch loaded with Gome3 and KDE has been very solid for a long time. And as one reviewer put it: He learned more in three days with Arch than in 3 years with Ubuntu. I concur

[dedanna1029]

Agreed with last paragraph. Other than that, these days, *yawn

[viking60]

Major update today - time to adjust the icons again mplayer was updated too so your sound might get better..

[dedanna1029]

My sound won't get better until they fix libnotify & notification-daemon to work with pulseaudio; however, I haven't been in Arch in a good while now due to the loss of that working, so I will try the updates. If no joy on notification-daemon, then back out I go. It's a must.

Edit: Post-updates here,,,
You mean, all of this:
upower
udev
util-linux
device-mapper
initscripts
mkinitcpio
linux-firmware
nvidia
udisks
usbutils
xz
postgres

... and NO kernel update???

W.T.F.

[dedanna1029]

I r fixored notification-daemon.

There was one setting for input-notifications, and I'm sorry I can't remember where that was now; it was in gconf-editor. That's what I was after.

The other was a hidden one surprisingly, in.... KDE system settings.

Popped those two in, and away we go with notification sounds! YAY!

[viking60]

[dedanna1029]

Damn updates anyway, turning these things off. WTF were they thinking???

[dedanna1029]

Have been scrolling through the list of gtk and gtk+ packages available in the Arch repos, and came across an "Easter egg" (of sorts):

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community/------->viking 1.1-2 [0.34 MB]
    GTK+2 application to manage GPS data

I am continually overwhelmingly astonished at how many packages are in the Arch repos...