[Novalug] any archlinux users?
Brandon Saxe
brandon20va@yahoo.com
Sat Oct 25 12:24:06 EDT 2008
> For me? I'm happy that I don't have to
> periodically stop everything in
> the world for a full-on distro or OS upgrade - and
> haven't in years.
That is EXACTLY what I'm looking for. I'm so far behind with my few systems on updates for exactly that reason. I hate having to plan and plan just to do an upgrade. When I read about the rolling release cycle, it sounded great. Now I have some feedback from this list and I think I'm going to try it out.
Thanks!
--- On Sat, 10/25/08, Paul Bohme <novalug@bohme.org> wrote:
> From: Paul Bohme <novalug@bohme.org>
> Subject: Re: [Novalug] any archlinux users?
> To: brandon20va@yahoo.com
> Cc: "novalug mailing list" <novalug@calypso.tux.org>
> Date: Saturday, October 25, 2008, 7:33 AM
> Brandon Saxe wrote:
> > I've read about archlinux lately and it seems
> really interesting with
> > it's rolling release methodology.
> >
> > Does anybody on the list use arch and have any
> comments?
> >
>
> Very positive overall. I run Arch on home/work destops,
> MythTV box,
> laptops, SliceHost instance and an EeePC (with all GUIs
> being XFCE), and
> have for a couple of years at least. The community is
> excellent; the
> Arch Way is one of unintrusive simplicity. A baseline Arch
> install is a
> very minimal running system, giving you ultimate
> flexibility in choices
> of GUIs and such.
>
> Package updates tend to happen almost shockingly fast in
> Arch - IIRC the
> 2.6.27 kernel took just under 2 weeks to go from release
> on kernel.org
> to its appearance in Arch's core. The package manager
> (pacman -
> humorously enough) tends toward the slightly austere but is
> everything
> I've ever needed it to be.
>
> The only caveat is that the rolling release cycle can be a
> double-edged
> sword - you must be ready to either keep reasonably current
> or only do
> your package updates in large batches periodically.
> It's not uncommon
> for a package installation to pull in a base library that
> suddenly
> breaks random other things until you update all dependent
> packages.
> Thus I tend to be careful about timing updates to work
> machine and
> SliceHost instance - places where spending a bit of time
> tweaking
> configs and such need to be planned.
>
> Basically, if you're comfortable with some lightweight
> config file
> tweaking and are OK with spending at least a little time
> getting your
> noggin around how various pieces fit together, I'd
> heartily recommend Arch.
>
> For me? I'm happy that I don't have to
> periodically stop everything in
> the world for a full-on distro or OS upgrade - and
> haven't in years.
>
> -P
>
> --
> When you posture DRM as a 'direct consumer benefit'
> you may as well
> just be saying 'It's double plus good' as you
> strap the rat cage to
> my face. - "parf" on Windows Vista's
> "content protection"
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