Fallen Under the Spell of Arch Voodoo | Linux Today

Fallen Under the Spell of Arch Voodoo

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 25, 2007

“I received an email the other day from a visitor saying how
much he enjoyed reading my reviews, but he was a disappointed as it
seems tuxmachines had been ignoring his favorite distro. As it was
a nice distro and a new version was released three weeks ago, he
felt it deserved some attention. So when my new burner arrived, it
was the first distro I tested. In fact, I’ve been using it for a
couple of days now and the author of that email was correct when he
said it was fast, stable, and up-to-date. I refer to Arch Linux 0.8
Voodoo.

“I used the torrent to pull Arch in, and it came in surprisingly
fast. At 300KB/s, it was just about the fastest torrent pull I’ve
experienced, at least recently. 561MB arrived in short order and
became the distro that tested if my new dvd/cd burner worked. Not
100% sure what to expect, I mkfs.ext3 this old partition I had
laying around and booted the install disk…”

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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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