On Monday, April 13, 2015 11:30:29 AM japuzzo wrote:
> package selection, Arch is a mature full > featured distro. Side note: > 1) mate is basically Gnome 2.x thus very useable, adding real web browsers > also makes it feel/act like a real PC ( will have to add LibraOffice next ) > 2) Arch is NOT Ubuntu! It's more like Slackware in that there is no "hand > holding" you need to know how to setup and edit config files etc. > Just by coincidence, last week's "Linux Weekly News" had an informative review of Arch Linux "The Grumpy Editor's Arch Linux Experience" (LWN editor Jonathan Corbet is the "Grumpy Editor"). http://lwn.net/Articles/637341/ There's quite a bit more to setting up Arch Linux than just editing config files. -- Phenom II X2 550 | Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 | 2 x 4G DDR3 1333 | WD Black 1 TB | GeForce 210 _______________________________________________ Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org https://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College * May 6 - Docker: An Open Platform For Distributed Applications For Developers And Sysadmins
