It reminded me a lot of a gentoo install, although it is a binary based system rather than source based so you don’t need to compile your own packages. You start with a CD which is downloaded and burn and then carry out the system configuration yourself from the terminal, setting up the network, disk partitioning, mounting of drives, chrooting into the system and running the install.
The install process is a bit long winded because there is no hand holding or graphical helper application. It also has a very good community behind it which makes lots of additional packages available via an alternative package managements system called yaourt.
It has an excellent package management system called pacman and has nearly every piece of software imaginable available. Arch linux is a minimalist distribution which allows you to set up a system with only the software you want installed and nothing else. The ubuntu/debian apt-get system has been fantastic so I initially looked at both debian and linux mint but I felt I wanted to try something completly different so I went with Arch Linux instead. I have had problems in the past with the redhat RPM system used by redhat (now fedora) and SuSE, and the reason I left gentoo was that the ports based system they use started to have dependency resolution issues.
My main requirements are for a configurable system with a good package manager. So I started looking at different distributions. I had assumed that was related to a particular application, but when I first installed Ubuntu 13.04 on this laptop exactly the same thing happened. I don’t like the Unity interface which was introduced a cople of years ago so I always install Gnome and use that, but I’ve noticed a tendancy for the system load to rise to huge values at start up. Since I’ve been using the latest version of Ubuntu I’ve been less and less impressed with it. My intention was to create a triple boot machine with Windows 7, Linux and MacOS so having installed Windows I set about installing a linux distribution. Kehlani You Should Be Here Download Audiomack Kevin.
Installing Linux I have been using Linux since about 1995 on a regular basis and in that time I’ve gone from Slackware ->Redhat ->SuSE ->Gentoo ->Ubuntu. The main reason I bought the Probook 4540s was because of it's hardware spec which is very similar to a Macbook and therefore well supported by OS-X.Īrch Linux logo (Photo credit: Wikipedia) Part 2 of my Probook 4540s hackintosh install post deals with installing Linux in more detail.