From: Chuck Hallenbeck <chuckh@ftml.net>
To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup@braille.uwo.ca>
Subject: Re: arch linux and orca
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:09:29 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100908210929.GA27623@rx.localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100908205536.GA16310@lnx3.holmesgrown.com>
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@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
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