Nic0

France

I'm not sure about the partnership, does this means it will be the default search engine for Linux Mint?

> If I could get a more refined feed from HN (just stuff that makes it to the front page

There is possibly a way, this twitter account provide only HN stories higher than 100 points, Twitter also allow to follow via RSS feed, unless they it turned off, https://twitter.com/#!/newsyc100 So it would provide readable feed for HN.

You are certainly right, I'm not a technical experts, and the average contain of HN is usually enough for me. If I would need some too specific stuff, it wouldn't work.

I agree that good sites publish rarely. Some site get in the Hacker News front page at every publication, even if they publish once a month, because they stuff are excellent. I'm not following them with RSS, but I still aware of them.

Thanks for your advises, in fact, I hesitated to write it in French, the easy way...

So I will carry on practice, I could try force myself to think in English as you said, good advice. Thanks.

This would be perfect, but in practice, even in my native language, it isn't easy to ask someone else proof read, it takes time and it's never easy to ask someone else time. But I agreed that is a perfect solution.

Thank you for pointing this problem. I started writing in English only recently. I hope it will be a good practice, and help me with grammatical errors.

Any tips to improve with this?

You're right, if Arch would not have some advantages, nobody would use it.

Simplicity of use, packaging, configuration, understanding. No default choices as Unity, it's light and fast, a great distro to learn from, great community and documentation, and much more, that make Arch a great distribution widely used.

My answer was almost serious as well, and was answering the question "why not use Ubuntu if it's easier" and not "what is the advantage of Arch over Ubuntu?". They are two different questions.

Your question, now, is a much more open one, then more difficult to answer. This page try to explain the Arch Way https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/The_Arch_Way

I wrote something that tried to explain why AUR is an important part of Arch Linux http://www.nicosphere.net/why-aur-is-part-of-the-arch-linux-...

nano is easier than vim to use, so why everyone bother to learn vim then ?

Ease to use is not the only thing mater for everyone, and having something powerful, more customizable, more understandable, those kind of things mater to some persons.

Gentoo spirit, without long compiling time.

Command line tool use much more often -x or --foo arguments that a word. Also -S is still faster to type than install, personally I won't switch for 'install'.

Nevertheless, you may add some alias to change the behavior if it's annoying you.

It's true that Arch might be fast to install, and can get something working very fast, in less than half an hour, but this post is aims for beginners, and it's probably not that fast for them, so I thing it's better to say "you wanna try Arch? take a day, and do it with the documentation". It seems to me more fair than say 30min top, you have Arch. You probably won't disappointed new users, with wrong surprise when few hours after they still stuck without Xorg running.

Have you tried this? https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Font_Configuration

Fonts needs some setups indeed before to get something good.

I almost miss the thing as I use vimperator+firefox, I don't use the mouse that much.

Funny anyway.

Arch became stable. The package manager Pacman is mature. The advantage with Arch it's that you don't have to compile every packages from the sources, as Gentoo does, so it's faster, and easier to maintain. Arch absolutely worth a try. Only package from AUR needed to be compile, but it's for more specific package. For example, kernel, xorg, Gnome and so on are available with pacman as binary.

Allan McRae (pacman developer) done some good writing about the signing package of Pacman on his blog, in three parts.

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-1-makep...

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-2-pacma...

- http://allanmcrae.com/2011/08/pacman-package-signing-3-pacma...

Node.js have a packet manager (npm), so I guess not so much developers bothers to make a PKGBUILD for a module.

what is this all about, tablet and smartphone again? maybe this 20px space is more handy with phone, but i'm very confused about pc.

I can't use this with a laptop, can I?

503 link here, something wrong with the website, or it's me?

It's only for "per month" graphs, as the last month wasn't complete, it drop at the end. I should have removed the last month for a cleaner graph. "per days" graphs should be fine.

I don't have the answer, but when the trend goes to zero, I'll be suspicious about the distro's community, it could be a bug free distribution you're right. On the other side, as a Arch Linux user, I don't think this distro is more buggy that before, and the trend goes clearly up. But you're right, their is not only one reason for the trend's explanation.

I agree that it wasn't easy to make conclusion, especially it compare only one parameter from forums (new registered accounts), and doesn't take mailing lists in account for example, maybe I should leave the conclusion to the reader. The trend for Arch Linux is more obvious I think.

Seen on this news http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3084195 115 points by pkrumins 19 days ago

The content seems to have been removed, as it's now a 404 link. Does anyone knows if the content has been place somewhere else, or simply removed (temporary?). I checked it earlier, it seems to have some nice topics through.

Maybe because it takes less code to write a "hello world" with Flask than with Django.

10 october for the ai-class, probably around the same date for the others classes.