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Arch Linux: An End To My Distro Shuffle? (OSNews)

OSNews test drives Arch Linux. "Now here's the best part of running Arch Linux, the whole frigging thing just works! Installing XFCE automatically installed everything I needed for XFree86. Fonts are anti-aliased and sized well in both Mozilla and Sylpheed, two programs which typically look hideous in most other distributions I've tried. Getting my sound card working was as simple as installing the alsa-driver with pacman, adding the sound card driver to the list of drivers to load and adding a couple permission lines to another configuration file. Which leads me to another nice feature about Arch. Most configuration only has to be done in a handful of files which are well documented in the installation instructions. No hunting through mailing list archives to get your system up and running."
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