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Interview with Arch Linux Core Team

Posted by timothy on from the golden dept.

Provataki writes "OSNews posted a juicy interview with the Arch Linux core team discussing everything about their promising distro, including their original package manager 'pacman,' their competition, their plans and more."

2 of 10 comments (clear)

  1. naming by sfcat · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Why does every FOSS package name tells us nothing about what it does? Pacman, that's not going to confuse anyone. Not that it really matters, it just occured to me. I guess it is better than Kensho, a product that I worked on last year, the name doesn't actually translate directly into any English word but it kinda means serenity.

    --
    "Those that start by burning books, will end by burning men."
  2. Great distro... by deggy · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've been using arch for about 18 months now and it's a great distro - I like to keep bleeding edge and it allows me to use all the latest libs with ease.
    I aggree that it's not for beginners, and still takes considerable user effort at times but it's got a sensible conf file layout and syntax and provides complete control over the OS, it much harder to FUBAR that a Mandrake or a Redhat.

    D.