On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 10:26 +0100, Olivier Keun | CAPSTONE wrote: > I also have no problem with other distros using Arch as a basis, but the > problem is that it causes a pretty big influx of newbies who have no idea > how to configure and maintain Arch since they installed a one-click > installer. > > The devs have mentioned before that we want to attract serious, competent > linux users, and this goal is in danger of being compromised when Arch is > more or less directly associated with distros like ArchBang. > > This also addresses Jelle's remark; do we want to keep having to redirect > users back to the ArchBang forums? Since they get told there to come to > ours. ;-) > Hmm a bit strange, in my opinion a new distro (fork or such) should deal with their own support. > Maybe it would be better if a more fundamental line is drawn between the > two, such as the website design like Ionuț mentions. And a clear statement > on the ArchBang website that it is _not_ an official Arch project. > > > 2011/2/7 Ionuț Bîru <ibiru@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > > On 02/07/2011 10:51 AM, Olivier Keun wrote: > > > >> > >> What are your thoughts about this? I'm hoping to get an official reaction > >> from our dev-team, so we can avoid some of the confusion that is present > >> now. > >> > >> > > there is nothing wrong with this distro and others distros that have arch > > as a base. > > > > Is good that the users are interested in this spins and that are > > discussions about them on our forum. > > > > As a package maintainer, i'm more interested to work each other fixing > > potentials bugs. This already happened with chakra team and on several > > occasions i got emails from them. I won't reject any of this contributions > > and i would help any time. > > > > What i don't like is their website theme. Is identically with ours and from > > here is the confusion. > > > > > > [1] http://archbang.org/ > >> [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=889066#p889066 > >> [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette#How_to_Post > >> > > > > > > -- > > Ionuț > > -- Jelle van der Waa
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