Hi guys, I agree with you about arch... I use it on my desktop machine, and I'm very seriously considering putting it on my main laptop too (as opposed to kubuntu at the moment). The pacman system puts apt completely in the shade in my opinion, the only issue being the lack of more esoteric packages. (You can often find them in abs though.
Meh, I've just talked my self into it :) Ben -----Original Message----- From: Hadley Rich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, 24 October 2006 9:46 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: Re: KDE Alternative Desktop use. On Tuesday 24 October 2006 04:56, Robert J. C. Himmelmann wrote: > Rex Teague wrote: > > [...] > > I've since moved onto Mepis but the > > kids have stayed with Kubuntu, however I'm looking seriously at Arch > > via Underground, the packages are more bleeding edge and once > > installed there is no new version reinstall required. > > > > http://archlinux.org/ > > http://archlinux.org/about/ > > http://underground.geekcode.info/portal/posts/view/about > > Looks nice. I might it out once I have some free time and Ubuntu 6.10 is > stable. Then I will drop my backup Ubuntu 6.06. Unfortunately > Underground doesn't seem to be available for amd64. I haven't tried > Mepis for the same reason. Arch is quite nice. There is an also an AMD64 Arch port - http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_FAQ The main reason I'm not using Arch at the moment is that being a bleeding edge distro made me want to update and tweak it and fix configuration issues all the time etc. I like doing that, the only problem is that it distracts me from doing work which actually makes money. There isn't much information there that specifies the difference between Underground Linux and Arch Linux? What is the purpose of the project? hads -- http://nicegear.co.nz New Zealand's VoIP supplier
