[ale] question about Arch Linux (was: strange keyboard problem)

[James Sumners]

This review [1] does a good job of explaining Arch Linux. It isn't a
hold-your-hand distro, but it doesn't require a dist-gcc farm either.
There aren't any real "releases" just current snapshots of the stable
branch. Whereas Debian locks down testing every so often and then
makes a release, thus moving testing to stable, Arch keeps a package
in testing long enough to see it is stable and then moves it into
stable.

[1] -- http://www.dvd-guides.com/content/view/212/104/

On Jan 11, 2008 4:32 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I cannot put into words how much I dislike Gentoo. That alone should
> tell you my opinion of that statement. But, there is one area that
> could be misconstrued as Gentoo-like. Oddball, extremely bleeding
> edge, packages are usually found in a repository called AUR (Arch User
> Repository). This repository is very similar in nature to BSD's ports
> system; which in turn is what Gentoo is based on. That is, every
> "package" in the AUR is really a file that tells the pacman package
> manager where to download the source from, what it depends on, and how
> to build it. I rarely need a package from the AUR.
>
> Load up Arch in a virtual machine (vmware, qemu, whatever) and play
> around with it.
>
> On Jan 11, 2008 2:23 PM, Preston Boyington <preston.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > James Sumners wrote:
> > <snipped>
> > ...I've really come to like the way Arch
> > > Linux's system works. Particularly for desktop systems. I'm not sure
> > > if I would use it over Debian on a server, but I intend to load Arch
> > > Linux on my MythTV box when I build it.
> > >
> >
> > my (limited) understanding of Arch is that it is akin to Gentoo.  it
> > that the case?
>
>
>
> --
> James Sumners
> http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/
>
> "All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
> pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
> is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
> drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."
>
> Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
> CH:D 59
>



-- 
James Sumners
http://james.roomfullofmirrors.com/

"All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts
pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it
is magnetic to the corruptible. Such people have a tendency to become
drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted."

Missionaria Protectiva, Text QIV (decto)
CH:D 59