Episode Details

0:00:00 The beginning
0:00:36 This Episode
0:01:11 Banter: Packaging
0:07:35 Banter: Keyboards
0:13:29 History of Arch
0:51:20 Opinions on Arch
1:14:13 Housekeeping
1:18:07 App Focus: Krita
1:24:12 Next Time
1:24:56 Distro Reveal
1:26:32 Thanks
1:27:14 Stinger

Coming up in this episode

1. Dan delivers
2. The strongest form of architecture
3. We answer: Which way to my wiki?!
4. And logos get vectored

Banter

• Ubuntu Feature Freeze

Arch Linux

• Arch Linux
• Basic principles
• Arch Linux Wikipedia page
• Initial release was on 11 March 2002
• Judd Vinet
• Pacman 1.0 was released in 2002 as well
• Ladislav Bodnar interview on Distrowatch of Judd Vinet
• The Arch Wiki is born
• Media Wiki
• Planet Arch is launched
• Arch releases the first joke
• Another joke in 2006
• April Fools 2007, Arch announces a name change to Ark Linux
• Arch moves to YYYYMM versioning.
• Judd Vinet hands over the reins
• Arch logo competition was announced
• The Arch Magazine is launched!
• It was converted to the ezine.
• New process for future leaders
• Latest poll for the current leader
• Video from ArchConf October 2020
• April 2021 introduction of the new guided installer
• Arch moves from Freenode to Libera
• Steam Deck will run Arch

• Name - Arch Linux
• Base System - Arch
• Desktop Environment - Any
• File Manager - All
• Package Manager - pacman
• Kernel - Rolling 5.13.12 as of today
• Display Manager - All
• Wayland or X11 -
• Project Leader: Levante Polyak

Housekeeping

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