Owen Smith wrote: 
> I'm concerned that Arch has been chosen for this project. A distribution
> that willingly describes itself as Bleeding Edge is not a good recipe
> for a stable music player. I get enough bleeding edge at work, at home I
> just want something that gives no trouble and playes music.

Arch is no more/less bleeding edge than the CS (based on Fedora) was. (I
don't recall anyone complaining that CS was so bleeding edge that it
kept falling over.) Bleeding edge needs to be put into context. It still
means stable, released packages, not Alpha/Beta software. And put into
context, from a Linux point of view, anything ARM flavoured could be
considered bleeding edge anyway compared to "classic" desktop
i686/x86_64.

There are several things to like, not least the rolling release model
and like Fedora, their ethos is to make as few downstream "changes" as
possible from the upstream software releases. Not that my opinion
matters, but I think Adrian has made a smart choice by basing on Arch
and the way he is going about distributing the software which is
specific to making an LMS compatible music player.


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