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Hi :-)
I'm Tim. I'm from Zimbabwe but live in the UK. I started on Slackware IIRC v0.99 with kernel 1.2.13. It came on lots of floppy disks from a friend in South Africa so I was probably one of the very few people in my country to have Linux at that time. The first thing I did with it was to overwrite the start of the FAT partition with all my parents documents on it by using it for a swap partition by mistake. Miraculously, the important stuff was recoverable. I didn't give up and went on to use a lot of distributions.
Just before Obarun I was using Fedora. Fedora is so corporate, so full of "innovations" that suit someone else that I felt I wanted to change to something that was aimed at people like me. I am not fond of the way systemd is taking over - it just seems dominating and inflexible and I was looking for something without it. Obarun is also a bit of a challenge again - something to enjoy learning about.
Thanks for starting this really fun distribution. I have had lots of problems but I kind of *like* that because they were solvable and helped me to learn more. In the corporate distros a problem is much harder to solve because they are hugely complicated due to all the features they are trying to support.
One totally awesome simplification that comes from Arch is the way that packages are not split into a "development" and "just the program". I *always* want to be able to build against whatever package I've downloaded. It is also SO much easier to create packages for Arch compared to making RPMs imo.
I'm Tim. I'm from Zimbabwe but live in the UK. I started on Slackware IIRC v0.99 with kernel 1.2.13. It came on lots of floppy disks from a friend in South Africa so I was probably one of the very few people in my country to have Linux at that time. The first thing I did with it was to overwrite the start of the FAT partition with all my parents documents on it by using it for a swap partition by mistake. Miraculously, the important stuff was recoverable. I didn't give up and went on to use a lot of distributions.
Just before Obarun I was using Fedora. Fedora is so corporate, so full of "innovations" that suit someone else that I felt I wanted to change to something that was aimed at people like me. I am not fond of the way systemd is taking over - it just seems dominating and inflexible and I was looking for something without it. Obarun is also a bit of a challenge again - something to enjoy learning about.
Thanks for starting this really fun distribution. I have had lots of problems but I kind of *like* that because they were solvable and helped me to learn more. In the corporate distros a problem is much harder to solve because they are hugely complicated due to all the features they are trying to support.
One totally awesome simplification that comes from Arch is the way that packages are not split into a "development" and "just the program". I *always* want to be able to build against whatever package I've downloaded. It is also SO much easier to create packages for Arch compared to making RPMs imo.
