On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 3:20 PM, Praveen A <[email protected]> wrote: > 2010/9/27 Siju George <[email protected]>: >> Yes it is on that i learned the intricacies of linux first :-) >> I am lazy these days so I use archlinux when i want a linux desktop >> mainly because of the rolling release model :-) > > Yes, good for learning. But when you don't want to turn too many knobs > to get things working, it is better to go for a distro with a good > policy and package management system. I'm on debian and I use sid, so > I have rolling releases :) I have not used Archlinux, but how > different it is from debian testing or unstable? >
It is more stable than sid :-) also you don't get a lot of stuff on dependencies as in debian. Debian is slowly growing to be a hefty distro in terms of package dependencies :-) But initial setup as a desktop will need editing a few conig files. The archwiki is great and its package repository is rich and if you want a portage/ports like stuff you can use http://aur.archlinux.org/ It is light, easy to manage and has most recent versions of packages with better stability than 'sid' :-) I read about it in Linux4u some time back. Tried it and got hooked to it. I use http://awesome.naquadah.org/ for desktop and it is very fast :-) Once I configured it as a desktop I have not turned many knobs but just do a $sudo pacman -Syu y - similar to update in apt u - similar to full-upgrade daily to get the latest version. Reboot if there is a kernel upgrade and such. it is really cool :-) --Siju _______________________________________________ Indian Libre User Group Cochin Mailing List http://www.ilug-cochin.org/mailing-list/ http://mail.ilug-cochin.org/mailman/listinfo/mailinglist_ilug-cochin.org #[email protected]
