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Arch Linux: the Distro of the Year?

Posted by Hemos on from the use-the-best-tool-for-the-situation dept.

Provataki writes "OSNews posted an enthusiastic review of Arch Linux, a distro that is fast gaining popularity lately. The article compares Arch to the existing big-name Linux distros and takes a shot on describing where Arch offers a better solution. It also lists some of Arch's own problems and suggests solutions."

2 of 58 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Please explain me something ... by Stevyn · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People like distros that do stuff automatically for you. For example, I plug in an iPod or usb flash drive and an icon instantly appears on the desktop. No need to mess with the fstab, it just works automatically. Those features are in the popular distros and are very beneficial to people who just want their shit to work.

    And you mentioned slackware because you like it. I could have easily posted why not use gentoo because compiling all your own software might get that 0.5% performance increase so everyone should do it. Who cares?

    There are so many linux distros out there that people should never act as if one is always and will always be better. There are distros for the bored people out there (gentoo) that people can spend hours tweaking. Then there are distros that people can throw on in 20 minutes and get a complete system up and running. People should play around with several distros and choose the one that suits their needs best.

  2. Easier than Debian? by DavidNWelton · · Score: 4, Informative

    I'm a Debian developer, and I'll agree that it's not simple in all the ways it could be, but I don't get this:

    "apt-get & dpkg and all these related tools are not as brain-dead simple to use as pacman is"

    How is "apt-get install whatever" any more difficult than "pacman -S firefox"?

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    http://www.welton.it/davidw/