On 17/11/2010 5:23 PM, Steve Holmes wrote: > Another selling point for Arch is the rolling update nature of the > beast. There will never be a "major update occurring every six months > or whatever; it just gets updated whenever you run the update utility > and if / when it finds packages to be updated. What surprises me > about it is it resembles Debian Unstable but yet mostly production > versions of applications are used and it very rarely breaks. I've run > into a couple instances but things were resolved within a day each > time. And even if something breaks if you know how to build stuff you can grab the upstream fixes and hack it in place yourself because pacman is very hacker-friendly. Almost as good as Slackware that way.
