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Arch Linux is an independent Linux distribution focused on the KISS (Keep It Simple, Stupid)^[1] principle that focuses on being lightweight and flexible^[2]. It was originally founded by Judd Vinet due to his inspiration from CRUX Linux being "simplistic, elegant, and very quick and easy to use" ^[3].

Functionality

One of the distinguishing traits of Arch Linux from other distributions is the presence of its package manager called pacman. Pacman's main goal is to offer binary packages with an "intuitive build system" that is easy to maintain and manage.^[4] This build system is what makes the AUR, Arch's well known user repository, possible.

Philosophy

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Trivia

If you add "ILoveCandy" to /etc/pacman.conf instead of a regular progress bar you get a pacman eating dots.
The name "Arch" came from the word "arch-nemesis".^[5]

↑ https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_terminology#KISS
↑ https://archlinux.org/about/
↑ Interview with Judd Vinet[1]
↑ Arch Linux Wiki - About[2]
↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20120914175514/http://osdir.com/ml/linux.arch.general/2005-08/msg00253.html

[1] ttps://wiki.archlinux.org/title/arch_terminology#KISS

[2] ttps://archlinux.org/about/

[3] Interview with Judd Vinet[1]

[4] Arch Linux Wiki - About[2]

[5] ttps://web.archive.org/web/20120914175514/http://osdir.com/ml/linux.arch.general/2005-08/msg00253.html

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 * If you add "ILoveCandy" to <code>/etc/pacman.conf</code> instead of a regular progress bar you get a pacman eating dots.
 * The name "Arch" came from the word "arch-nemesis".<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20120914175514/http://osdir.com/ml/linux.arch.general/2005-08/msg00253.html</ref>
-* If you wish to speed up your package downloads via the AUR or regular pacman, just edit your <code>/etc/pacman.conf</code>, uncomment the line where it says <code>ParallelDownloads</code>, you can keep it as default 5 but if you do have a good internet then a sweet spot is somewhere from 30-35 (for all the curious people, it just recurs a certain amount of bytes from each download instance on however much you want to recur over, that way if one download hangs, something is still downloading) [common issue: if your downloads say operation too slow just use the <code>-S</code> flag with package name and add the parameter <code>--disable-download-timeout</code>, this probably means you are overloading parallel downloads]
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