Let me reply to all you guys. I start from the last post since this forum start with that one on replies:
@gerinho: thx to hear that you are one of our first users. Maybe you remember that 0.1.1 had an UI-Installer. Our new one wasn't ready for this release due issues with our partioning page. I created a backup installer for CLI. Since everybody agreed to use that one for 0.8.0 we made it available also from our DEs. This is only the beginning our the new Manjaro. More things to come. Thx for keeping us on your HDD
@Anja Noir: Cinnamon/Gnome is Guillaumes creation. He made a great edition. We focused only on XFCE until I rewrote manjaroiso to simple add other DEs to our images. Now it is flexible to add any DE on top of a basic root-install and driver-stack. Glad to hear you like it.
@h@lf@rk: Great that it worked out for you. We designed mhwd to do exactly that. Also to point out: We support Nvidia-Optimus out of the box. Our lead-developer has such a Netbook with Nvidia/Intel hybrid card. He worked his bud off to have Manjaro running on his machine. Also he has some issues with his Razer Mouse. Guess what: we will support mouse, keyboard, printers and other hardware with manjaro. On top of that we will create a database for you guys to put your personal CONFIG-files on. So all can help us to make mhwd better and easier for all to config your hardware by just pluggin it in!
@pjnsmb: Yes we know all about this scary big /usr/lib update Archlinux did. Guess what. We had the same issue: Well only me on my PCs since I wrote an update-pack to solve this issue. After we had figured all out we added all packages at once to our repository. This way there was nothing left out and a simple pacman -Syy was the only thing you had to do. Some might know Mint-Debian edition which is also a rolling release model. They provide update-packs. We will have a testing-repository also. There you might get earlier updates than in our stable branch. We try to push new packages to our stable-branch only if it is with no issue involved so all our users have a running system all the time. With 0.9.0 release we will switch from our default reiser filesystem to btrfs having a snapshot function which means followed: For every big update pack Manjaro will create a snapshot and add that to your grub list. After you performed your Update you can reboot and try it. If some happend you still can boot into your old system and retry to update your system until you manage it. You've always an option to report any issue so we can fix it. Less pain more fun with your PC
@FarStar: Well, I was the Lead-Developer once of Chakra. Now I'm here - do I have more to say?
@cristatus: I just can say: it is even more snappier than on your virtual machine. Come on! What are you waiting for?
@Fixxxer: Yes, I was also always scared in the dark - until I grown up
Have a nice one and thx again for liking our creation.
Kind regards
Philip Müller
