ArchLinux + XFCE

[Miro Hodak]

Well, let us not turn this thread into distro war. 

But I cannot resist to at least say this:

I am using Gentoo and I have also tried Arch. Both distros are nice, the 
main difference is that Gentoo is source distribution, so you have to 
compile packages to use them. It takes about 30 minutes to compile XFce, 
which is not bad. Also, Gentoo has bigger package repository (mainly 
because it has more users and developers).
That said, both distros are great, their main advantage is that they do 
continuous update, i.e. packages are updated soon after new version is 
released and is tested. No need to wait for an upgrade of whole distro and 
upgrade all your packages at once to get the latest and greatest.



On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Tom Wesley wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 21:53, Shahar Weiss wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> Although I wouldn't normally, I'm going to promote the distro I'm using
> here.
> Gentoo has very, maybe even extremely up to date software, and huge
> forum that has much information about Brazilian wax techniques and a
> little about Linux itself. ;)
> 
> And it's very simple, nice for simple people like myself.  Theory of "if
> you don't change the contents of that file then they won't change on
> their own" sits well with me...
> 
> I'll stop now though, just try it if you have the diskspace.
>