[Sussex] microsoft_anti-spyware

[Geoffrey J. Teale]

Stephen Williams <steve.williams at forteus.co.uk> writes:
>
> I'm downloading 0.7 ISO as we speak. I've got a spare box to try it on
> that Ubuntu couldn't cope with - SCSI and HPT IDE-RAID controllers with
> 1x SCSI and 4x IDE drives (gotta put 'em somewhere) - Ubuntu's default
> grub install didn't hack it.
>
> I'm looking for a binary distro that isn't too big a learning curve from
> Gentoo.

Cool.  Arch is a fairly natural step from Gentoo - it has many of the
advantages (up-to date, simple flexible package management system,
very clean, small minimum install) but without such a reliance on
source based distribution.  As you'll find you can use src-pac or
preferably ABS to customise and build things within the package
management system when you really want/need to. 

You'll need to use the SCSI kernel (you're given the
option at install time) and the grub (or lilo) configuration is up to
you entirely (there is a default, but it won't cope with your case).

If you have any problems you know where to come asking :-)  Although
you should check out the forums and the wiki before coming here...

One thing to know from the outset.  You'll find that when you start or
stop a daemon you don't do it like this:

/etc/init.d/cron start

Instead you do this:

/etc/rc.d/crond start

.. not a major thing (people who've used a lot of UNIX systems won't
be surprised by this), but worth noting.

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Geoff Teale
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