[ale] Arch Linux, they've screwed it up

[James Sumners]

I've looked into Slackware. I think that is going to require more
maintenance than I have time for.

I installed Sabayon into a VM. So far, it's looking like a good fit.
Starts off with a couple more services enabled than I would like (just
a test of how "base" the install is for me), but they're pretty easy
to disable. The binary package manager seems to be okay. It doesn't
look like it has an equivalent of `apt-cache show <package>` other
than `equo search <package>`, and that doesn't give many details.

On Fri, Mar 15, 2013 at 5:40 PM, James Sumners <james.sumners at gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd have to do a fresh install of each to answer definitively, but off the
> top of my head: Debian starts with inetd, nfs stuff, rpc daemons, and a few
> others. Arch used to start with maybe three services in total. But I bet
> moving to systemd has changed that.
>
> I'm going to look at Slackware. It's been a long time since I've run that.
> It's getting several suggestions as a replacement.

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