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[News] Reasons to Love Gentoo GNU/Linux, Review of Arch Linux

  • Subject: [News] Reasons to Love Gentoo GNU/Linux, Review of Arch Linux
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 14 Mar 2010 15:53:42 +0000
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Reasons to love (and hate) gentoo.

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| Some reasons I love the Gentoo Linux 
| Distribution:
| * Fast. Wow is it fast.
| * Packages are up to date.
| * FreeBSD-ish ports system. Compile 
| everything from scratch.
| * Awesome for home uses and personal stuff.
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http://www.convolutedtheory.com/general/reasons-love-hate-gentoo/

Rolling with Arch Linux

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| It's always a good time to review Arch Linux 
| since it features a rolling release model. 
| This means frequent upgrades, with no 
| release dates. In other words, Arch is 
| always in its latest version, constantly 
| being updated in small intervals of time. 
| That makes it perfect for reviewing, since 
| it's fresh whenever it's being taken for a 
| spin.
| 
| Arch is inspired by CRUX, a simple and 
| lightweight distribution which is inspired 
| by BSD. Arch Linux first appeared in 2002. 
| Although it shares some ideas with CRUX, 
| Arch was developed from scratch, with no 
| legacy from any other distribution. Arch 
| Linux today has a devoted community, which 
| stays close to its founding principles. 
| According to DistroWatch's distribution 
| ranking, Arch is doing better than ever, 
| making it to the top ten in 2009, where it 
| remains so far this year.
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https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/378030/fd98cd0e1500e577/


Recent:

Arch Linux smokes all others. My Arch Review.

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| Iâll continue to use Arch Linux as my main
| O.S. at work and weâll see how it adds up in
| the Long run.
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http://www.jimmyburnett.com/2010/02/arch-linux-smokes-all-others-my-arch-review.html


Arch is hard to replace

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| I didnât try out OpenSuse KDE, because I was
| curious about the GNOME version, thereâs no
| Ubuntu because I already had Linux Mint, and I
| didnât include Fedora although I wanted to,
| because Iâm a bit worried about my download
| limit.
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http://celettu.wordpress.com/2010/02/15/arch-is-hard-to-replace/


Review: Arch Linux

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| Iâve been wanting to try Arch Linux for quite
| some time now.  They seem to have a similar
| aesthetic to Gentoo in that the main mission
| of Arch is to build your operating system from
| the ground up.  You only add the things you
| need.  So you donât have any cruft on your
| system based on what some other people think
| you should have.  So letâs pop this CD in and
| see what happens!  (Iâm also following the
| directions on
| http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Official_Arch_Linux_Install_Guide)  The disc is the 2009.08
| snapshot.  I booted into the LiveCD.
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http://server.ericsbinaryworld.com/blog/2010/01/27/review-arch-linux/


Making the Switch to Arch Linux

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| Overall, I am really happy with Arch, although
| to be fair, I havenât been using it for more
| than a day yet. However, the documentation is
| great and the installation was relatively quick
| and painless, so I am pretty pleased at this
| point. I look forward to getting more
| comfortable with it and switching my other
| machines as well.
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http://whatisgon.wordpress.com/2010/01/23/making-the-switch-to-arch-linux/


Getting Started with Arch Linux

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| Itâs hard to come up with an opinion about
| Arch, since Arch is what you make of it. I
| like that it gives so much control to the
| user when it comes to system
| configuration, but at times it feels like
| a little too much control. There are a few
| things that make you think âcome on, does
| this HAVE to be manual?â but the
| developers are clearly just trying to
| follow the Arch philosophy of giving the
| user all the control. In particular, it
| would be nice to have tools like hwd and
| aurbuild as part of the system, or at
| least available for installation through
| pacman. That may happen at some point as
| packages in AUR have a chance to be worked
| into the community repo eventually.
| Overall I think I like Arch and pacman,
| and I can see how it would make a great
| choice for systems that should be kept
| fast and clean.
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http://maketecheasier.com/getting-started-with-arch-linux/2009/12/31
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