Kyle <speakup at linux-speakup.org> wrote: >I run Arch here, and I love it. It starts out in the command line >environment, and you can add only what you want to it, including full >GNOME if you want. The Pacman packaging system is quite powerful, and >few packages actually need to be built from source manually. I am considering Arch as an option whenever my next machine is purchased, or maybe I'll just install it in a vm at some point. It's also one of the few distributions (with debian and derivatives being the other notable cases) that has an accessible installation process supporting both speech and braille if I remember correctly. The accessible installer unfortunately isn't the default yet, whereas in Debian it most certainly is - no separate "accessible" image required. A slightly annoying aspect of Arch, based on what I've read, is that it doesn't support separate packages for debug symbols. If you need a stack trace to report a bug, you'll have to rebuild the relevant package with a debug flag. In general, though, I think Arch is the most interesting distribution to have emerged in the last decade.
