An Arch Tale | Linux Today

An Arch Tale

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 5, 2011

“I’ll admit that at first I was not especially eager to install
an Arch system. I’ve happily put behind me my days of compiling
system components, including kernels and graphics subsystems, and
I’ve enjoyed the ease with which I’ve been able to install modern
distributions such as Fedora and Ubuntu. In fact, I first installed
Fedora 14 as the replacement system, and I’m pleased to report that
it installed and configured itself without incident.

Alas, I ran into considerable difficulty when I tried to install
the latest nVidia driver for my graphics card, and in the end I
decided the attempt wasn’t worth the amount of time I was spending
on it. Please bear in mind that my experience is no reflection on
Fedora

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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