There are some steps to make Arch Linux work better for you:
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#locale
(1) Edit /etc/locale.gen to enable the locales you need
(2) run locale-gen as root to generate locales
#fontconfig
(1) install the required TTF fonts
(2) edit /etc/fonts/local.conf, add your favorite settings
(3) edit java fontconfig setting in /opt/java/jre/lib/fontconfig.properties
#disk mount in GUI
add youself to the storage, optical group
#solve the Chinese problem of USB disk mount
add iocharset=utf8 in the gconf-/system/storage/default-options/vfat
#alsa config
(1) alsactl store to save the alsa setting
(2) add alsa to the rc.conf daemon section
#HAL configuration
#config HAL to only automount removable disks
#file /usr/share/hal/fdi/policy/10osvender/ignore-fixed-drivers.fdi
<device>
<match key="storage.hotpluggable" bool="false">
<match key="storage.removable" bool="false">
<merge key="storage.automount_enabled_hint" type="bool">false</merge>
</match>
</match>
</device>
2008年8月31日星期日
2008年8月8日星期五
使用Gentoo2008作为系统维护盘
以前一直习惯使用Gentoo作为系统维护盘，不管是Linux还是Windows维护，不管是修复系统还是备份数据。但是以前的Gentoo Live CD不可以操作NTFS分区，所以遇到XP系统等使用NTFS分区的系统就无能为力了。我期间使用过Ubuntu，Puppy Linux代替过。但是总是觉得不爽，Ubuntu启动到桌面太久了，Puppy Linux有的时候会遇到兼容性的问题，有些电脑启动不起来，也挂不了硬盘。今天帮朋友恢复装Vista SP1损坏的系统，他用的HP的机器，所有的数据都默认在C盘了，System Restore没有作用，还原点不能用，只有可能恢复到出厂模式，但是这样就必须先把C盘上的数据先导出来。首先还是尝试了手头上就有的Ubuntu Desktop CD，但是太慢，简直不可接受。好久没有关注Gentoo的动态了，从网站上一查，得知Gentoo 2008 Live CD已经支持了NTFS读写了，太爽了。又可以用熟悉的Gentoo做系统恢复盘了。并且由于不要图形界面，可以节省大量的内存，所以拷贝文件比Ubuntu快多了，实在是救了我，他有120G的数据需要备份出来，看来我这次等帮他重新分一下区才可以。否则，下次，最好是没有下次了，简直太难受了。这么多数据，我的移动硬盘一个区只有40G，老鼠搬家了3次才把数据转移完。
2008年8月4日星期一
The new life with Arch
Arch linux is good for me, the bigest advantage of Arch Linux is that, it can upgrade the system to another version very smoothly, just like gentoo. I really love gentoo, but the compilation is painful.
Here is my software list:
Gnome - the desktop environment
openoffice - for the office application
gnome-terminal - a muti-language terminal emulator
file-roller - the GUI frontend of zip and unzip
audacious - it can support chinese mp3 tag
totem-xine - for videos and movies
Brasero - the CD burner
Firefox - the browser
Filezilla - the FTP client
FreeMind - the mind map tool
ArgoUML - the UML drawing tool
Komodo Edit 4 - the web development
gThumb - the picture management tool
GIMP - the *photoshop* of linux
LinuxQQ - realesed in 2008.7.31, by Tencent, this is the first offical Linux QQ
Emesene - I think it's the best MSN client in gnome.
Acroread - the PDF viewer from Adobe, but it cann't be found in Arch's repositories, I have to create this package by myself.
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Thanks to all the bright programers who created these wonderful programs.
Here is my software list:
Gnome - the desktop environment
openoffice - for the office application
gnome-terminal - a muti-language terminal emulator
file-roller - the GUI frontend of zip and unzip
audacious - it can support chinese mp3 tag
totem-xine - for videos and movies
Brasero - the CD burner
Firefox - the browser
Filezilla - the FTP client
FreeMind - the mind map tool
ArgoUML - the UML drawing tool
Komodo Edit 4 - the web development
gThumb - the picture management tool
GIMP - the *photoshop* of linux
LinuxQQ - realesed in 2008.7.31, by Tencent, this is the first offical Linux QQ
Emesene - I think it's the best MSN client in gnome.
Acroread - the PDF viewer from Adobe, but it cann't be found in Arch's repositories, I have to create this package by myself.
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Thanks to all the bright programers who created these wonderful programs.
2008年8月3日星期日
Tryed the KDE for a while and I am back to Gnome again
To the KDE users: This post is just based on my experience, may be I am not very familiar with the KDE, so please keep calm :)
Since I have been a Linux user, Gnome is always the desktop evironment of my computer, the exception is on one of my old machine, I use fvwm instead. That's not suprise, because gnome is the defaut desktop evrionment of most of big linux distributions, including Red hat, Ubuntu. Red Hat is the first linux system on my computer, about 5 years ago, and then I have used gentoo as my desktop system for about 3 years, and after graduation I used ubuntu.
Gnome is always the default desktop environment, so I never thought about to make some changes, or dedicate some of my time to another desktop environment, I mean KDE, even I known it since I tasted linux at the first bite. I even have ever tried KDE sevral times, but every time just for a glance or "play with". When I have to get start to work, I restart the GDM and enter my familiar environment - Gnome.
I tried Arch linux this week, because I want to install it to my laptop, whose CPU is not so fast. KDE4 is out, as they say, KDE4 is a great gift to the opensource community, So I think I should give me a change to try it. Anywhere, I just want to only one desktop environment installed. I tried KDE first, it beautiful, I thought I would love it. "The desktop of 21 centry", ah ha, now I have it.
But one day later, I changed my mind, because I found some problem which is rather important for me.I am a java programer, In most of my work time, I use eclipse, netbeans and some other java (develop) programs, freemind, argouml, etc. In gnome, I can get a native look and feel when I use these java programs, but in KDE, they only show the strange face to me, the java look and feel. As for as I know, in the java world, for linux, gtk is the only supported GUI lib. if you use SWT based programers you still can get a beatiful look and feel from GTK, if you have configurated the GTKRC, but with Swing, you can only get the strange java look and feel, that makes me feel uncomfortable. For the KDE4, I think it still need time to be really mature, there are so many KDE applications only available for the KDE3, e.g., I want use KMyMoney for my finance management, but it's not available for the KDE4 at this stage. I will not try to use KDE3 now, I found in KDE, the Chinese characters are not renderd clearly engough just as in Gnome.
Finally, after some carefully consideration, I decided to back to Gnome.
Since I have been a Linux user, Gnome is always the desktop evironment of my computer, the exception is on one of my old machine, I use fvwm instead. That's not suprise, because gnome is the defaut desktop evrionment of most of big linux distributions, including Red hat, Ubuntu. Red Hat is the first linux system on my computer, about 5 years ago, and then I have used gentoo as my desktop system for about 3 years, and after graduation I used ubuntu.
Gnome is always the default desktop environment, so I never thought about to make some changes, or dedicate some of my time to another desktop environment, I mean KDE, even I known it since I tasted linux at the first bite. I even have ever tried KDE sevral times, but every time just for a glance or "play with". When I have to get start to work, I restart the GDM and enter my familiar environment - Gnome.
I tried Arch linux this week, because I want to install it to my laptop, whose CPU is not so fast. KDE4 is out, as they say, KDE4 is a great gift to the opensource community, So I think I should give me a change to try it. Anywhere, I just want to only one desktop environment installed. I tried KDE first, it beautiful, I thought I would love it. "The desktop of 21 centry", ah ha, now I have it.
But one day later, I changed my mind, because I found some problem which is rather important for me.I am a java programer, In most of my work time, I use eclipse, netbeans and some other java (develop) programs, freemind, argouml, etc. In gnome, I can get a native look and feel when I use these java programs, but in KDE, they only show the strange face to me, the java look and feel. As for as I know, in the java world, for linux, gtk is the only supported GUI lib. if you use SWT based programers you still can get a beatiful look and feel from GTK, if you have configurated the GTKRC, but with Swing, you can only get the strange java look and feel, that makes me feel uncomfortable. For the KDE4, I think it still need time to be really mature, there are so many KDE applications only available for the KDE3, e.g., I want use KMyMoney for my finance management, but it's not available for the KDE4 at this stage. I will not try to use KDE3 now, I found in KDE, the Chinese characters are not renderd clearly engough just as in Gnome.
Finally, after some carefully consideration, I decided to back to Gnome.
2008年4月26日星期六
知音无，弦弹断，谁人听
孤独，这种感觉快要把我吞噬掉。出差回来，本来高兴的发短信跟GF说我可能获取的一次机会，然而并不被理解。她有时候幼稚天真得让我觉得无奈。心烦意乱，正是午夜，飙条短信给唯一可以开口说些私事的朋友，去被告知她在黄山旅游。孤独，这时唯一的感觉。
2008年4月4日星期五
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