Arch Linux pacman – Just the Most Useful Commands

Wading through man pages can be a tedious process. Often it's not clear which options or commands you will be using 99% of the time and which ones are the more obscure options that are only occasionally useful. I was largely mystified by pacman's man page until I decided to do an exhaustive search through …

My (Revised) Step-by-Step Process for Starting Arch Linux Live

In this post I talked about my process for setting up my Arch Linux live system. I still use a live distro (mostly because I don't want to overwrite any files currently on the hard drive), but in the last few months I've made quite a few revisions to my startup process for Arch Linux …

Arch Linux Hacker Battlestation Setup

When I was using my laptop by itself, I loved to boot into Arch Linux and then use tmux to split the terminal into multiple windows and start a bunch of different programs to make it look all 1337ed out. But when I started using the dual-monitor setup, I started to have problems doing this. …

My Step-by-Step Process for Starting Arch Linux Live

In this blog post I will detail the steps I go through to bring an Arch Linux live distro from a minimal boot disk to a fully functional text-mode Linux system. All changes get deleted when I shut down, but this is the system I'm working with until I get around to actually installing Arch …