[ale] opening distro war arch vs ubuntu

[James Sumners]

You said "dev team." I would not be using Arch on a set of systems
that need to be concurrent. Arch updates often, and sometimes with
breakage (read the news on the website!).

I am a massive fan of Arch -- when used on the right system. Desktop
OS? Yes. DVR OS? Definitely. Server? Hell no. For that, I go Debian
(when I'm not forced to use the god awful hair pulling RHEL).

Ubuntu? Hate it. I have Xubuntu installed on one system -- my
Grandfather's old machine, now my Grandmother's. I had to update that
damn thing from Jaunty to Oneiric this week. It was a long,
convoluted, process. How they screwed up "apt-get dist-upgrade" with
some wackadoo "do-release-upgrade" is beyond me (before you say
"they're the same", the do-release-upgrade script expects X to be
running).

On Fri, Dec 30, 2011 at 14:27, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari at gmail.com> wrote:
> Friends:
>
> I am about to switch from Ubuntu to Arch.  The rolling update model of arch
> suits our dev team better is what I think is good.
>
> Is anyone using Arch ?
>
> Anyone has had bad experience with Arch ?
>
> How bleeding edge is Arch ?
>
> How soon are fixes available in Arch usually ?
>
> Is AUR any better/worse than PPA ?
>
> Appreciate your input.
>
> Regards
> -Narahari
>
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