My Arch Linux / XFCE4 Setup

My setup as of January 6th, 2012.

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[fanaruvalentin]

system details ??? please

[chammer0r46]

@fanaruvalentin AMD Phenom II X6 1090T overclocked a bit to 3.8ghz, 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 PC-12800 (1600mhz), 2xOCZ Vertex3 SATA III 120GB SSD's running in RAID0, 2xWestern Digital Black 250GB running in RAID0 (old drives but still good - 200MB/s!), SB Audigy 2 ZS (old card - havent found need to replace just yet), ATI Radeon HD 6850 1GB (Sapphire brand). Dual boot Arch and Windows 7 Ultimate for now.

[Dareboy58]

@chammer0r46 This is realy much faster when you put your hard drive in raid0? I have 2 western digital 1 TB 64mb cache black edition sata III

[chammer0r46]

@Dareboy58 Almost double! If I recall correctly each drive was doing about 115MB/s on it's own, and output via hdparm is currently showing:

/dev/mapper/pdc_bggaahdef: Timing cached reads: 8570 MB in 2.00 seconds = 4286.95 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 664 MB in 3.01 seconds = 220.72 MB/sec

continued...

[chammer0r46]

@Dareboy58 This is using the onboard AMD solution - I find arrays using MD (Linux software RAID) a bit faster generally. My file server built a few years ago runs 4x640GB WD Blue which are SATA I, and they get:

/dev/md0: Timing cached reads: 2550 MB in 2.00 seconds = 1275.70 MB/sec Timing buffered disk reads: 612 MB in 3.01 seconds = 203.55 MB/sec

...using RAID5.

[rayyanputra]

Can you make an installation video?

[chammer0r46]

@rayyanputra Without a microphone it'd be kinda difficult to pull off. There are probably much better videos (and people) available that goes through the install. This was really made just for a friend to show him my setup. I just left it public in the event it interested others. :)

[Corleone390]

Great video! Thanks for the time you took with your description. I have already setup several "Arch Boxes" on Gnome 2 and 3, KDE, LXDE and simple Openbox. Nowadays I tend to use XFCE and your setup really looks awesome, good fonts, icons, theme and overall appearence. Excellent!

[gamecheet555]

Could somebody tell me what this XFCE and GTK themes are?

[angelusice]

Name of the song please it's really good pretty pls:)

[MECHAunitAMH1]

I actually really like that wallpaper. Do you have a link to it?

[pabloctrlalt]

what's the function of compositor?