Arch Linux stuff

In a proper nerd fashion I recorded short video of my computer booting and starting OpenOffice Calc and Chromium.

According to bootchart my new machines boot time is now 10s. Proof of it can be found below. Ofcourse, my machine is quite powerful and this result would be more impressive with lesser specification. But this result without much of extra work is quite nice in my opinion.

AS I promised, here is bootchart for my new machine. This chart is without any optimization done, so after I get quick-init installed I will post new chart. Even without optimization boot time is already faster than on my old machine with quick-init installed.

Arch Linux forum user graysky posted a thread on forums about speed benchmarks for SSD’s. I bought same drive as he did, but decided to post my results anyway. I will post them here as well for further reference and I’ll also post results from benchmark for my HDD. Intel X25-M (G2) 80Gb SSD 500GB [...]

I have been thinking about buying new computer for a while now, maybe for a year or so. Now I had funds to do it so I went and ordered components for new box. My previous computer was built in Shuttle barebones case and I really liked it so up-to-date Shuttle case was my benchmark [...]

Arch Linux forum user itsbrad212 had link to scripts he has written. One of them was updatescript where I learned about pacman option -Qqdt which will print out list of orphaned packages. Running that I found out that I had over 60 packages installed that my system didn’t need. I ended up using his script [...]

Reason for my previous post was that I wanted to try improving my boottime with quick-init, that one can find from AUR. Installation of this script was straightforward with Yaourt. Although at first I thought that installation had somehow messed up my system when boot went to console instead of KDE. But this was only [...]

Even though I don’t boot my computer everyday I still like it to boot relatively fast. To really know how long it takes for computer to boot you can either use stopwatch or purpose built tool – in this case program called Bootchart. I used info from Arch Linux Wiki article for finding way to [...]

Welcome to my random thoughts about Arch Linux. I started this site mainly to serve as sort of notebook for myself about different stuff I encounter while using and learning Arch Linux, and Linux in general. Arch Linux is: “… a lightweight and flexible Linux® distribution that tries to Keep It Simple. “