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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. Good distro by dimss · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I've tried Arch last year. Mostly good distro but their i18n support was very poor. First, I have to rebuild ncurses with utf-8 support (Looks like this one is fixed by judd). Second, glibc comes with reduced locale set. I had to build ru_RU.KOI8-R myself. Debian, for example, provides nice frontend for doing this. Slackware comes with huge number of locales by default.

  2. Re:naming by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Interesting

    You obviously haven't been using Unix systems long enough to understand this. Look up the history behind commands such as cat, rm, ls, etc. pacman fits in perfectly, and thinking "PACkage MANager" isn't that hard.