Arch Linux UK Forums

fastfret79 · 2010-02-01 13:42:30

Hi everyone, my name's Mark and I'm an Archoholic!

Been a Linux user (on and off) since 2000, with a fair amount of time spent with Ubuntu and lots of distro hopping until I found Arch.

My nick comes from playing guitar (fastfret is a string cleaner/lubricant) and I am also fairly heavily involved in Table Tennis as I help organise my local table tennis league and run their website. Lots of other hobbies including photography and scuba diving when I have the time!

So who are you?

dick_turpin · 2010-02-01 14:03:01

Hi there, my name is Pete but a lot of you will know me as dick_turpin
I've been using Linux (Badly) since around 1999/2000 I started out with RH progressing to Fedora while also running SuSE Pro as was. I was introduced to Arch Linux by Dave Crouse.

Oh and if you want to know what my nick is all about: dick who?

geekzus · 2010-02-01 16:40:49

Hi my name is Daniel and, surprise I'm spanish (from Barcelona).

As you can see my nick is geekzus, which is a mix and match between 'geek' and a kind of translitarion of the greek word ixzus (fish) because I am a Christian
(you have probably seen lots of Christians with fishes in their cars, haven't you?). I am a learner geek more than anything, but hey, dreaming is free...

I started using linux back in 1999 because of the "freedom" mentality. I started with red hat (5.2 or 6), suse (6 or 6.1) and finally kept mandrake the longest (5.3).
It didn't last too long as I thought linux wasn't ready for mainstream yet and went back to windows until the end of 2007 when I switched completely.
My favourite distros are, Arch of course and linux mint, all with XFCE.

Crouse · 2010-02-01 23:52:31

I'm Crouse... no one knows who i am.

BTW... in the "toolbar" on the top right of the forum, the "Forum" links to

http://www.archlinux.org.uk/forum/

it SHOULD link to

http://www.archlinux.org.uk/archuk/

Just thought i'd mention it.
Looking good.

fastfret79 · 2010-02-02 00:02:53

Crouse wrote:

BTW... in the "toolbar" on the top right of the forum, the "Forum" links to
http://www.archlinux.org.uk/forum/
it SHOULD link to
http://www.archlinux.org.uk/archuk/
Just thought i'd mention it.
Looking good.

Dammit you're right - well spotted!

dick_turpin · 2010-02-02 09:57:04

Crouse wrote:

I'm Crouse... no one knows who i am.
BTW... in the "toolbar" on the top right of the forum, the "Forum" links to
Looking good.

Thanks Dave

The culprit has been executed, the names on the lists are known, the prisons begin to swell. :-)

Cheers

Barrucadu · 2010-02-02 13:50:53

Hello, I'm Michael and I'm an Archoholic. My username comes from a mispelling of 'barracuda' my brother made *many* years ago, and I adopted it as my name.

I've been using Linux since mid (ish) 2007, and have been an Archer since mid February of 2008; soon will be my second Arch anniversary
I came to Arch after a periof of distro hopping which took me through various *buntus, OpenSuSE, Fedora, Zenwalk, Debian, and, finally, to Arch.

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dick_turpin · 2010-02-03 11:56:27

Barrucadu wrote:

Hello, I'm Michael and I'm an Archoholic..

Hi Michael

Welcome back :-)

phar · 2010-02-24 10:28:42

Hi everyone,

I'm Pharsalus, I can't remember where I picked up the name, but I've been using it for about 6 years so it's kind of stuck. I'm a chemical engineering student and part-time R programmer (www.r-project.org) in sunny sunny Manchester, although I'm originally from a town near Bath (or "daan saath" as my colleages call it)

I use Arch+KDEMod on an Advent 4211c (repackaged MSI Wind) netbook and also Arch+Openbox on an old Dell SX280 I use as a mini server. I've done a fair bit of distro hopping, and a fair bit of switching between Linux and Windows. Over the last 3-4 years I've used Yellow Dog Linux, OpenSuSE, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Siltaz, Debian, but I only really got my hands dirty with Linux when I installed Arch about 9 months ago.

Arch is by a long mile my favorite distro because it's completely flexible, Pacman is beautiifully simple and together it gives you excellent control over your system. Also when you don't watch the Arch news feed you'll neglect to notice something which causes things to go horribly wrong, which provides a perfect opportunity to learn something new about the wonderful world of Linux..!

Anyway, I look forward to helping create a UK community of Arch Linux users!

Phar

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SiC · 2010-03-04 11:39:59

Morning Ladies(?) and Gentlemen,

I'm an alcoholic, I mean archoholic.

Anyway, in work, must dash, will pop back soon

skanky · 2010-03-04 12:31:38

Hello all. I'm skanky. That's also my user name.
I've used Linux for a few years (Ubuntu since Gutsy) and switched to Arch sometime last year.
At work I programme on the Windows environment, so I apologise for any user agents I may leave behind (esp. during working hours).

d2ogch3n · 2010-03-04 17:12:15

Hi I'm Lee and another Archoholic
After many years as an admin using WinNT and Mac at home I discovered Linux. Like many I guess I came to Arch through the 'gateway' distro Ubuntu via CrunchBang. I feel at home with Arch, I like the learning challenges it presents and the community is knowledgeable and helpful.
Thanks to all who set up this site and forum, I look forward to being part of the UK Arch community

gazj · 2010-03-05 22:05:14

Hi, I'm Gazj from Cambs.

Linux
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Been using linux since 2005 acording to my oldest linux bible, it came with fedora core 1 I believe. I was impressed but at the time I only had one of them usb adsl modems that were popular in GB before wireless routers became the norm, I could not get it working but I was hooked. I finally got it working with MEPIS. I was pleased but wanted more. Started using ubuntu with Breezy Badger (5.10 I think). Done loads of hopping etc, finally moved to arch in 2007. Still try out the odd distro Debian Slackware and Gentoo all do something for me but not quite as much as Arch does.

Personnal
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I am 28 got a lovely family, kids an all. I am an electrcian which I love doing very much. Had a spell of working in IT, but I really belong on the tools.

Does that wrap it up, yep think it does, theres not much excitment to my personal life, lol

MikeT · 2010-03-08 14:48:12

Mike from Coventry. Joined as I saw the post over @ ArchLinux Forum where I'm registered using the same name.

geekzus · 2010-03-08 16:45:49

WOW, great to see this is starting to grow!

dick_turpin · 2010-03-23 18:06:15

geekzus wrote:

WOW, great to see this is starting to grow!

Yep and the channel is starting to get busy as well. irc.freenode.net #archlinux.org.uk

Duncan Snowden · 2010-03-30 18:05:17

Hello all. I'm dunc on the main Arch forums, but I only chose that nick because everyone else seemed to have one at the time. Never really liked it. So I'll use my real name here.

I've been using Linux since late 2005 (switched from AmigaOS; I've never been a Windows or Mac user), and Arch since April 2007. Same - now rather elderly - machine, all that time: a K7 Athlon now with 1Gb RAM, and a Radeon 9200 that's also getting on a bit, but works, so why bother replacing it? For the last year or so I've also been running Arch on an Acer Aspire One (I forget the exact model number, but it's the hard disk one that came with Linpus Linux). It works really nicely there.

Anyone who's been around Arch long enough will recognise my avatar as my submission to the 2007 logo competition - the closest I've come to a proper contribution to the community, I'm slightly ashamed to say. Since I bought an XBox 360 18 months ago, I've found it hard to keep up with the ever-expanding main Arch forums, so hopefully we can build a nice cozy community of Arch Brits here that'll be easier to keep tabs on.

dick_turpin · 2010-03-30 19:58:40

Duncan Snowden wrote:

Hello all. I'm dunc on the main Arch forums, but I only chose that nick because everyone else seemed to have one at the time. Never really liked it. So I'll use my real name here.

Hi and welcome really glad to have you on board.

banditman · 2010-04-07 23:16:57

Well Hi I would say that I am a sidux/Archaholic lol As these are the distros I always end up coming back to when Ive tried something new on Distrowatch and been invariably dissapointed. Just installed ArchBang on another partition to complement my full Arch main setup.

Am keeping a close eye on sidux too though as I am looking forward to KDE 4.4 arriving in sid.

These 2 distros are great.

ninian · 2010-04-09 15:48:26

Hello, I'm Doug and (you'd never guess) a greyhound owner as well as being a keen Archoholic.

My progression in Linux only goes back about 4-5 years but here are the main phases:
- Interest kindled by the amazing (well, in those days) live CDs of Knoppix. "How could such an advanced operating system possibly run so easily and portably from a CD?". Wow.
- Tried a few half-hearted installation attempts: Ubuntu 5.10, Knoppix 4 ... but Suse Professional 9.2 just about put me off forever, as it was so slow.
- Really switched on when I installed Mepis 3.4-3 in minutes and it worked almost "out of the box" (though I ended up learning painfully later about X and modelines etc when I changed monitors).
- Kept using Mepis through versions up to 7.0, eventually ousting Windows 2000 on our family's production systems. But kept playing with lots of other distros, always having a soft spot for Puppy, being fairly impressed by Sidux, Kanotix and Pardus.
- First tried Arch in late 2007 and had about 3 trial installations over a period of months until eventually it felt right and I'd gained confidence. Used KDE (vanilla) 3.5 at this point.
- Fell badly out of love with KDE when the v4 upgrades came through. So then standardised on Gnome, but never totally happy with its bloat (Konqueror as a file manager made up for KDE's bloat!)
- Over the last 1.5 years, have moved to lighter systems based around Openbox without a DE and, increasingly, Awesome WM with Dmenu.

That was quite therapeutic documenting the above!
(PS: Only use Windows now at work and very occasionally at home, usually Win 2000 in a VirtualBox vm, and exceedingly rarely, Win XP, especially for awkward hardware devices that need special drivers.)

halfloaf · 2010-07-29 22:21:58

Hello all,

I'm on the way to becoming an Archoholic!

Have been on computers since the tender age of 10, am now 32! Have gone through Apple ][, Amiga 500, Amiga 1200, PC's (various flavours!), SGI Octane2, SGI O2 and am now on a Mac Pro running OS X 10.6.

I have to say my most enjoyable computing experience so far has been IRIX on my now departed Silicon Graphics machines. Stable, fast and extremely powerful.

I've had a go at Ubuntu and Fedora, and have had Arch on once on my Mac but couldn't get wireless networking to work...So I'm giving it another shot.

Main use for my system is browsing, forums, Vespa Smallframe scooter research (Vespa v100) and Maya 3D modelling and animation...Well, I'm learning animation...Slowly!

Will soon be back on Arch!

Cheers!

J

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starfry · 2010-08-24 10:07:08

Hello, I think I am becoming an Archoholic!

Linux since 1992, Ubuntu since Feisty Fawn, LFS before that. Arch for just over a week. Still evaluating but looking like a convert.

I have the same name on the main arch forum and also on the Wiki. I plan to contribute writings back to the Wiki whenever I achieve something useful. I am currently focussing on LXC under Arch (Linux Containers) as I migrate away from OpenVZ which I have been using on Ubuntu Hardy.

I'd be interested to hear of any other Archers in my local area.

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