My OperaAnother Arch Linux Update
Saturday, February 21, 2009 12:24:50 AM
Well, I have a fully working desktop, a full Operating System I guess I should say. I have Pidgin, AMSN, and Gyachi for Instant Messaging, and Skype is also installed and working. Splash screen when booting is working great, and so is Compiz and the fglrx driver. Boot time is down to ~20 seconds, which has me extremely happy. I have a working firewall up and running thanks to Firewall Builder and Iptables.
Honestly, things can't get much better.
There are minor tweaks here and there that I'm still working on, but other than that, I'm totally happy with this distro as a whole. My backup script from Ubuntu works perfectly on Arch, although, I did have to make some minor adaptations to it. The last really big thing I'd like to do, is take the entire OS back it up, and reinstall it to a new disk, just to be sure it will actually work the way it is designed to.
One minor thing I'm working on is getting Solaris's gdm theme snatched from their disk and putting it on my Arch system.
Seriously, if you haven't tried out this distro yet, you should. It's quite an amazing piece of work. My kudos to the developers, maintainers, and the community who all support Arch Linux. :]
On a side note about security, I believe I've mentioned this before, although I don't feel like searching through my posts to find it. There is a "feature" of firewire that allows persons to dump the ram of your machine and even bypass locked screens. Have a look at the link below:
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/taxonomy/term/1972
This page offers advice on how to prevent the attack under the "Mitigation" section of the article. Please read it.
If you're on Linux, please follow the advice to prevent this type of attack on your box, especially laptop users.
PiklesOnFire
Honestly, things can't get much better.
There are minor tweaks here and there that I'm still working on, but other than that, I'm totally happy with this distro as a whole. My backup script from Ubuntu works perfectly on Arch, although, I did have to make some minor adaptations to it. The last really big thing I'd like to do, is take the entire OS back it up, and reinstall it to a new disk, just to be sure it will actually work the way it is designed to.
One minor thing I'm working on is getting Solaris's gdm theme snatched from their disk and putting it on my Arch system.
Seriously, if you haven't tried out this distro yet, you should. It's quite an amazing piece of work. My kudos to the developers, maintainers, and the community who all support Arch Linux. :]
On a side note about security, I believe I've mentioned this before, although I don't feel like searching through my posts to find it. There is a "feature" of firewire that allows persons to dump the ram of your machine and even bypass locked screens. Have a look at the link below:
http://www.hermann-uwe.de/taxonomy/term/1972
This page offers advice on how to prevent the attack under the "Mitigation" section of the article. Please read it.
If you're on Linux, please follow the advice to prevent this type of attack on your box, especially laptop users.
PiklesOnFire
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