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    Discussion in 'Linux Compatibility and Software' started by theZoid, Oct 2, 2009.

  1. theZoid

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    Hmm may be cool for someone, but some of the reasons I take Arch are that packages are not modded (for example the Gnome in the repositories is actually the gnome.org release without any mods) and the fact it doesn't impose anything (this one imposes KDE and I cant stand the latest KDE releases...).

    May be (or not) a bit harder to set up but I do it only once anyway :)
     
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    Slackware is the same, unmodded kernel, DE, etc....I've read some good reviews for this though....will be one to follow for me.
     
    theZoid, Oct 3, 2009
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    Actually the GNOME release in Arch has been modified so that Pulseaudio isn't required
     
    Amranu, Oct 3, 2009
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    I see it but KDE-mod and Chakra really don't seem useful to KDE users at all, and I'm fine with Gnome.
     
    Gintoki, Oct 3, 2009
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    Actually it is very useful. Using the arch packages, removing the calculator app may remove say, half of KDE, but KDEmod is modular, so it doesn't.
     
    Thomas, Oct 3, 2009
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    As of KDE 4.3 Arch's packages are modular as well.
     
    Amranu, Oct 4, 2009
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    I haven't tried them, so I can't speak for that.
     
    Thomas, Oct 4, 2009
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    It looked nice from the Live CD and worked 'reasonable' as far as I could see.
    Only managed to check it out for 5 minutes though because my fan started spinning harder than I ever experienced, indicating a very hot CPU.
    After rebooting (from the Live-CD) into XP the fan was still on blast-level, the CPU was 50 Celsius and the fan just wouldn't stop.
    A power down, pause and boot settled the issue. No more hot CPU or fan-madness.
    Phewww...
    Enough alpha-distro testing for this year....
     
    Baserk, Oct 6, 2009
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    hehe...you're freakin' out your hardware.... :p I hear ya, I'm even done with betas! :D
     
    theZoid, Oct 6, 2009
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