ArchLinux + XFCE

[Shahar Weiss]

That's the beauty, it's simple, like Slackware. You don't have to study 
anything about the file locations, it's trivial. Hell, on second thought 
it's even cleaner than Slackware (sounds impossible, I know). You pretty 
much get the hang of it after an hour.
I was a Slackware user before I moved to Arch, and I really loved 
Slackware's philosophy and the distribution itself. Arch seems to follow 
the same steps in mind. I'd really recommend trying it.


Shahar.




myth47 at comcast.net wrote:

>You make me want to try ArchLinux now even though I just got used to Debian through Knoppix.  One issue for me with Debian is the slow pace of their releases as well as the fact that with so many apt repositories, just switching to one that has what you want can cause major things to break.  Having said that, though, I'm used to the distro and I know where things are in it.  Maybe I'll boot an Arch partition just for kicks.
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>>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.
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>>I think this is the end of my distro shuffle.
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>>Shahar.
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>>Sergey Manucharyan wrote:
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>>>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.
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>>>Sergey
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>>>>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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