On 03/30/15, Maurice Kinal said the following...
 
 MK>  AI> I'm running arch linux
 MK> 
 MK> I have been tempted to take it out for a spin in the past but so far
 MK> haven't. Too much oddball hardware here for a regular distribution, the
 MK> latest being the Intel Atom C2758 based box.  Not much help so I am
 MK> feeling my way through the dark on it as we speak.  Managed to get hot
 MK> swapping sata drives and the astdrmfb frame buffer device working so
 MK> far.  I might have another go at qemu/kvm but perhaps xorg first. 
 MK> Haven't decided yet.

Arch has the latest and greatest everything very soon after it's released.
The kernel here is 3.19.2, haven't looked at kernel.org but I'm sure it is
recent. Might work with your hardware.

 MK>  AI> I can't get high ascii to display
 MK> 
 MK> That is because there is no such thing.  It is a myth created by silly
 MK> IBM/MS dweebs more than a couple decades ago.  In NA it is cp437 that
 MK> most people got suckered into using for 8-bit characters in DOS.  That
 MK> is probably what you want although I am guessing arch linux is
 MK> defaulting to utf-8 which is VASTLY superior to all codepages/charsets
 MK> and the such.

Yeah, I have been wondering if I can convert my bbs files to utf-8 without
loosing the look of things.

Arch doesn't have a default for UTF-8 or not. You setup your /etc/locale.conf
yourself during setup. I'm not sure what you would end up with if you left it
blank.

Arch has no /bin /sbin or /usr/sbin, they are symlinks to /usr/bin. Don't
really know what to make of that.

 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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