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Arch Linux
Personal blog · archlinux.me/dustyprogrammingsystems
Arch Linux is a personal blog at archlinux.me about programming and systems. Since 2009, 14 different Hacker News readers have linked it 17 times, most often “Why I'm Quitting Gmail”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Cited for Arch Linux history and background, including the package signing story, the Arch Bounty system, and a post about quitting Gmail. One commenter says it is a source of useful technical information.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Most-linked posts?
- Why I'm Quitting Gmail2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-08-24
What Hacker News says?
while you're at it vote this one up as well: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=781751 it's about this story: http://archlinux.me/dusty/2009/08/23/why-im-quitting-gmail/
Comment linking /dusty/2009/08/23/why-im-quitting-gmail/
on “Make Frontpage of Slashdot, Reddit, Hacker News == Google Disables AdSense”Submitted Arch Linux Handbook for Kindle rejected by Amazon as a story · 226 points
HN discussionas for technical blogs, the only ones I get consistently useful information from are: http://blog.sanctum.geek.nz/ , from which I've learnt a great deal about vim and also about some obscure but historically significant unix tools which otherwise I'd never have known of. http://archlinux.me/ Every now and then a good in depth article pops up pn this one. Dev blogs are great for learning about the nitty gritty detail…
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on “Ask HN: What unknown technical blogs or sites do you read?”Submitted Why I'm Quitting Gmail as a story · 158 points
HN discussionThere was an "Arch Bounty" system for funding things like this. It died with only one donation. It wasn't well promoted, but it did exist and was mentioned on the Arch Linux website in various places. Info is available from an Arch Linux developer at http://archlinux.me/dusty/2010/01/22/death-of-arch-bounty/ Notice the dates. The "Arch Bounty" system was born and died while people complained. People who were complai…
Comment linking /dusty/2010/01/22/death-of-arch-bounty/
on “The real story behind Arch Linux package signing”Submitted Why we need Python in the Browser as a story · 133 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python on Android? First impressions of Kivy as a story · 90 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pushing Python Past the Present as a story · 76 points
HN discussionSubmitted Guido Van Rossum Should Retire (and focus on python) as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Suicide Is Not A Choice as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gitifyhg (git-hg bridge) is now awesome as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Killing the Google Habit as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The History Of Distributed Version Control as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Four ways to do local lightweight (git-style) branches in Mercurial as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python : creating an application in kivy as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Gitifyhg: accessing Mercurial repos from Git as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Pyjaco in a real app: Todos with local storage as a story · 1 points
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