[ale] question about Arch Linux

Preston Boyington preston.lists at gmail.com
Mon Jan 14 10:35:13 EST 2008


James Sumners wrote:
> 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/

thanks, i will definitely look into it.

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