Arch Linux
I finally shifted my OS after my 2 month old thought that I should change. I dumped ubuntu and gentoo and moved to this, the “Arch Linux”. Well, the installtion was a bit long as I forgot the specification of my wireless card and few other stuff. I was lucky to have SLAX on my pendrive to fix them up. After what I thought I finally got the OS running, in the aim to delete a folder that I made unnecessarily in /etc/; I did $rm -rf /etc/ .And, yeah I had to redo the whole thing again… thoug this time, I finished it all in few hours.
That’s for my installation. Now, coming to why I finalised on Arch were the number of good reviews of a 32-bit OS that I found about Arch on forums. I discarded my idea of 64-bit after a shot usage of hardy. Everything was fine, except that the memory usage and temperatures at which it runs is high. It’s not that I had a problem with memory, I am well-off with it. But, it just that I did not feel any improvement in performence.
Arch performs very well and is not bloated. It’s not bloated because it installs only the base. Over that, I found a considerable performance improvement from my hardy32-bit. I still don’t know how this happens. Well, bottomline is that I am not going to change from it for at least two years, I guess.
www.cmi.ac.in/~ravitej/hardinfo_report.html … this has few benchmarks done by the “hardinfo”, at the end of the page.
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I didn’t know you got a 8400. Do you monitor its temperature? After stuttering at 70-80 celsius, it finally came to a almost complete stop, I am going to get it replaced today.
hmm .. yeah. My gkrellm never showed anything beyond 63(i guess) till date … usual GPU temp is at about 47-55.
I started using Arch quite recently aswell. Tried the 64-bit but it was too much trouble and very little performance gain, so now I use the 32 version. Haven’t used ubuntu in ages, but I’d like to play with Gentoo, never really gave it much time. Is gentoo very different from Arch, as in performance and user-friendlyness?
@morphex : well gentoo is similar … as user friendly and it has a live install .. but it is way slower to install … i guess arch took the shortest time for installation … though i had to fix few issued with my wifi card and sound ..