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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. 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.