Rafael Sorto wrote: > Maybe i dont see it that way as i did my upgrade to x7 and the latest > udev package , and everything else ,without any problems at all , > maybe its how people make the upgrade and not the upgrade itself. > > :D > > I have been an Arch user since October 2003 when I > moved from Slackware. The recent changes to Arch were > executed with such ineptitude that I almost downgraded > to Slackware. It is NOT a question of being on the > edge. Anybody can tolerate a glitch, they are just > there to keep us awake and to educate us. However > initrd, xorg and udev are each critical packages and > the level of activity on the mailing list re each of > these after they reached current is a message that > nobody should ignore or brush aside with bleeding edge > arguments. > Like the OP, I've been using Arch for a few months after coming from many years of Slackware, and some dabbling in other distros. I experienced the same problems he mentions. The problems were documented in the mailing list and the wiki, so the solutions were always easily found, but that's not the point. Slackware stability has spoiled us. These problems just don't happen there. If a package is working before a minor upgrade, it will work after as well. With Arch, for the OP, myself, and obviously others, critical packages needed tweeks after a minor upgrade just to work. To me, this means that it was released too soon. Perhaps that extra cash donated for a new server could be invested in a computer for compiling/testing which is held back at the "stable" level. Once you have more stability, you can use your own release for your server. Save yourself the M$ tax.
Arch has pacman and abs which are truly amazing. It doesn't have the stability that Slackware is known for. Still, Arch has spoiled me in package management. For my own desktop, I don't care too much about stability. For my servers, I do. Maybe Rubix.... Mike _______________________________________________ arch mailing list [email protected] http://www.archlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/arch
