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Removed link to Udev. It's not necessary since ALSA covers it. Just in case someone wondered why i did it ;) Pholie 14:23, 11 Sep 2005 (EDT)

Does anyone know why that sentence about Lilo and the corresponding command are in with the section on hardware? (It's the first section.)

Can the section re: enabling portmap and fam for kde be explained? - Q. Blue.

In the section "Extracting Compressed Files", some of the 'tar' command examples show usage of option flags without the '-' character. For example, the first one

   tar xvf file.tar

Isn't the '-' character before xvf necessary ? - d2v

No, its not. Abhidg 10:44, 30 September 2007 (EDT)

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Ok, what did I kill and why?

• Intro: this stuff is purely optional and "doesn't need to be accomplished"
• hdparm: unnecessary, don't mess with rc.sysinit
• shortened the yaourt hyping
• kernel build tips were misplaced (Post Installation Tips for newbies, remember?), outdated and incomplete; we have enough articles for that
• I don't like that /var/abs/local idea
• the part on running lilo after kernel updates and how to fix it when you screwed up: duplicate, unnecessary (see kernel26.install) and outdated (devfs, duh!)
• "Reduce Sleeping time on shutdown": WTF!? Don't mess with initscripts, period.
• timezone stuff (editing rc.conf) is part of the installation
• "PDF file viewer (kghostview)": kpdf is the PDF file viewer
• file descriptions: the selection seemed rather random to me and don't get me started about the actual descriptions... (profiling? config.sys?!?)

And in general: quit the "I"s and "my"s, smileys and exclamation marks.

--byte 04:51, 16 November 2007 (EST)

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I've made this to read less like a blaring advertisment for yaourt. Louipc 19:38, 1 June 2008 (EDT)

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In section 18 (Useful Commands & Programs), there's a reference made to "locate -u". I can find no packaged variants in the repos that support this option (I admittedly didn't try them ALL). My Sybex Linux Cmnd Ref shows the option...my *tenth printing* is CopyRight 2000 (and I thought it was older than that). --Grndrush 07:18, 23 July 2008 (EDT)