Arch at last…
Over the past 2-3 weeks, I had been listening to all my friend from #think-digit channel (IRC) on freenode.net. All of them had were discussing Arch linux at that time. I thought it to be a hype at that time. I was (and still am) perfectly happy with my openSUSE install. Even then, I decided to try it out and installed it over vitrualBox under openSUSE. I installed the base system and played around a bit, but due to lack of time, I did not go much further and left it like that.
Yesterday though, I could not sleep and did not have any projects at hand, so I thought about giving arch another try. This time, by installing on a hard disk. I did that and then slept. Today, I configured the rest of the part by reading it from the Arch Linux begginers guide. The guide is through and very helpful. No need to look elsewhere. I did not install GRUB on MBR. I like the SUSE GRUB. What I did was, I installed it on the partition itself, did not flag it as boot and created an entry in SUSE’s GRUB to point to the menu.lst file on the Arch partition. 
-> End result :- It works! 
Then I went on and installed the xorg packages and Gnome. Right now, I am installing extra packages for gnome and will move to firefox and pidgin, etc, later on. Right now, I like this. It gives you ‘COMPLETE’ control of the system. I like that. So, from now on, 5th distribution has been added to my list for now. (The other 4 being openSUSE, Zenwalk, Knoppix and SliTaZ). I will keep experimenting with this for a while. More posts to follow with a review maybe…
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