Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

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Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Iain » Sun Dec 23, 2007 6:21 pm

Did you like it this time around?

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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Patrick » Mon Dec 24, 2007 1:49 pm

Iain wrote:Did you like it this time around?
I liked it the last time around. My issue was updates causing breakages. That was a couple years back. It seems to be better now. I'll keep it around for a bit longer. :)
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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Iain » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:01 pm

You kept pretty quiet during the Arch interview, so I thought you might have hated it and was keeping tactfully quiet. :wink:

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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Patrick » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:18 pm

Iain wrote:You kept pretty quiet during the Arch interview, so I thought you might have hated it and was keeping tactfully quiet. :wink:
Maybe you have me confused for Allan or Linc? I asked a bunch of questions.
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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Iain » Mon Dec 24, 2007 3:36 pm

Sorry - you asked most of the questions. You were just quiet about your own recent experiences with Arch.

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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by phisphere » Mon Jan 07, 2008 3:28 am

Nothing. It continues to be fast and stable (at least for me, never had any breaks after upgrade) Linux distribution.
Personally I don't think there's much changed over the years. Just evolutional improvements here and there. And rolling releases are IMHO a nice way to produce a up-to-date distribution. Yeah, I like Arch.

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Re: Pat: What happened with Arch Linux?

Post by Patrick » Mon Jan 07, 2008 8:05 am

I like Arch Linux and their approach. I like pacman, it's up there with apt-get. While Arch may not be for everyone any serious Linux user should at least check it out. I still predominantly run/use Ubuntu/Debian but I'll definitely keep Arch around in some capacity.
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