ArchLinux + XFCE

[Shahar Weiss]

Definately an incredible distribution, have been using it for about a 
month now. Running XFCE on it and enjoying every moment :) I find it to 
be a lot better than debian, even though my debian experience is pretty 
limited. I like pacman (Arch's package manager) a lot more than apt, 
it's also built better I think because with debian you have apt-get and 
dpkg, which I heard can cause some trouble if you try to use both. I 
think I can describe it as an i686 Slackware-like (simplicity-wise) 
distribution with a good package manager and a build system. Making your 
own packages is a breeze, for example. Good dependency support, great 
community. Also from my limited debian experienced debian used to break 
a lot. Arch hardly breaks package wise and even if it does break, 
there's either a workaround posted on the website or it's very simple to 
resolve it.

I think this is the end of my distro shuffle.


Shahar.



Sergey Manucharyan wrote:

> I've discovered this distribution half an year ago. It has small (170Mb)
> base system iso having simple installation procedure, as well as there
> are another team
> (http://amlug.net/new-projects/live-cd/al-amlug-live-cd.html) making
> 400Mb live CD with KDE desktop and an installer.
> I like ArchLinux's simplicity and the possibility package-by-package
> installation without any default set of packages or default (or
> official) desktop environment. Very flexible and configurable. I feel
> some a semblance of philosophies of XFCE and Arch. Arch's team is very
> active, and the packages are updating very frequently. I run it with
> 2.6.4 kernel and didn't find any serious drawbacks yet. They have (and
> updating right away) all the XFCE base packages, plugins and goodies.
>
> Sergey
>
>> Interesting. The package system is appears to be somewhat 
>> debian-like. Are there any drawbacks? Problems? I'm happy with 
>> libranet but am always interested in trying new releases...
>> Thanks
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