The thing I like best about archlinux is that it is a smoothly evolving distribution which abolishes the idea of different versions, or releases. Every other distro I can think of follow the idea that a given version remains more or less fixed until a new version is prepared and released, after which it remains stationary while another version starts to be prepared. In biology they call that "punctuated equilibrium" but in Linux, it divides the user community into the timid and the bold, and creates havoc for the abrupt transition from Version N to Version N+1. Archlinux is based on a "rolling release" notion, in which the distro is constantly adjusted to reflect the best available technology, so that if you use archlinux, you are by definition using current technology, assuming you keep in touch with the archives, a very simply thing to do. Chuck On Wed, Sep 08, 2010 at 01:55:36PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote: > With its package inventory, I don't know really how minimalistic it > actually is but the lack of hand-holding might make it seem > tminimalistic. When Chuck Hallenbeck turned me on to Arch last > summer, he compared it somewhat to being like Slackware as I had come > from a long Slackware background. The package management and > dependency tracking in ArchLinux is far better than Slackware > however. And more packages are available. > > I also have never seen an easier system for creating new packages of > your own either. > > On Tue, Sep 07, 2010 at 11:08:51AM -0500, Christopher Brannon wrote: > > "Glenn Ervin" <GlennErvin at cableone.net> writes: > > > > > what is Arch Linux, that is, what is different about it? > > > Thanks > > > > It's a minimalist, do-it-yourself Linux distribution. > > It doesn't hold your hand. > > > > -- Chris > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup -- The Moon is New My personal website: hallenbeck.ftml.net Software: edway.ftml.net, and Blog: edway.wordpress.com My Jabber ID: chuckh1 at jabber.org (beware the silent h!) -------- Linux: The operating system with a CLUE, a Command Line User Environment
