From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp2.mhcable.com (smtp2.mhcable.com [24.105.198.45]) by speech.braille.uwo.ca (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9D4BEC1A262 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from vams.mhcable.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bypass.mhcable.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 0A61FE7226 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:07:32 -0400 (EDT) Received: from rx.ftml.net (24-105-237-29.cm.mhcable.com [24.105.237.29]) by outgoing1.mhcable.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id E6D9CE71F0 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:07:31 -0400 (EDT) Received: by rx.ftml.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 04E472E0F4; Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:09:30 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2010 17:09:29 -0400 From: Chuck Hallenbeck To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." Subject: Re: arch linux and orca Message-ID: <20100908210929.GA27623@rx.localhost> Mail-Followup-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." References: <20100906142235.GA1687@nextdog> <20100906162216.GA3236@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> <874oe1r0x8.fsf@gmail.com> <20100908205536.GA16310@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100908205536.GA16310@lnx3.holmesgrown.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.13 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:07:32 -0000 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" 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@braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup@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@jabber.org (beware the silent h!) -------- Linux: The operating system with a CLUE, a Command Line User Environment