Newsforge endorses Arch! :)

beniro · 2005-02-18 20:52:10

Check out the review here:

http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/02/14/1722211.shtml?tid=2

sarah31 · 2005-02-18 21:03:39

Funy how people talk like its a young distro. It is one year, if that, younger than Gentoo. Okayu it is not as old as Debian or Slackware but it is not "new" to the market. Someone should tell this dood that swaret is a pup compared to pacman. When I came to Arch (0.3) swaret was just starting to crawl.

Anyway I guess any press is good press.

beniro · 2005-02-18 21:12:19

It is a bit weird...it's also because Arch has been conservative (read: honest) in its version numbering...plus, we just aren't that well known.

Here's the osnews post of the article.

http://www.osnews.com/comment.php?news_id=9758

i3839 · 2005-02-18 21:13:39

And he got $200 for writing that thing? Lucky bastard.

beniro · 2005-02-18 21:16:47

i3839 wrote:

And he got $200 for writing that thing? Lucky bastard.

LOL! That's exactly what I said!

Mith · 2005-02-18 21:31:54

how do you know he got 200bucks for it??

sarah31 · 2005-02-18 21:33:37

the unemployed NHL players should write reviews. They could make some good money and they have the time .... then again they would have to learn how to write and not just scratch an X on a piece of paper.

cactus · 2005-02-18 21:51:23

X

beniro · 2005-02-18 22:01:00

Mith wrote:

how do you know he got 200bucks for it??

I guess I'm just assuming, but look down at the bottom of the page..."Write a review of less than 1000 words..."

See?

sweiss · 2005-02-18 22:40:54

I'm always puzzled when people claim Arch is a cross between Slackware and Gentoo, I really do. The resemblence to Slackware is pretty obvious, but what is it with Gentoo?

Frankly I've used many distributions and I hardly ever felt any performance differences in any of them, apart from Mandrake being slower than the rest. So I doubt what had Gentoo's speed to do with anything. But maybe that's just me.

Unless Gentoo has greatly changed during the last year, I find it to be the anti-thesis of Arch, for the most part.

phrakture · 2005-02-18 23:09:43

sweiss wrote:

I'm always puzzled when people claim Arch is a cross between Slackware and Gentoo, I really do. The resemblence to Slackware is pretty obvious, but what is it with Gentoo?
Frankly I've used many distributions and I hardly ever felt any performance differences in any of them, apart from Mandrake being slower than the rest. So I doubt what had Gentoo's speed to do with anything. But maybe that's just me.
Unless Gentoo has greatly changed during the last year, I find it to be the anti-thesis of Arch, for the most part.

meh, most people find gentoo to be "slimmed down" similar to a standard arch install... it also has real good package management... if it wasn't source based

sweiss · 2005-02-18 23:38:00

phrakture wrote:

sweiss wrote:
I'm always puzzled when people claim Arch is a cross between Slackware and Gentoo, I really do. The resemblence to Slackware is pretty obvious, but what is it with Gentoo?
Frankly I've used many distributions and I hardly ever felt any performance differences in any of them, apart from Mandrake being slower than the rest. So I doubt what had Gentoo's speed to do with anything. But maybe that's just me.
Unless Gentoo has greatly changed during the last year, I find it to be the anti-thesis of Arch, for the most part.
meh, most people find gentoo to be "slimmed down" similar to a standard arch install... it also has real good package management... if it wasn't source based

From my brief experience with Gentoo, being able to slim down Gentoo seems to be its only advantage. It is simply complicated, too complicated and without the need for it. It starts with the complete command-line installation, which can easily be put into a simple bash script, and continues with, well, needless "utilities", such as the infamous etc-update.

Somehow this post presents me in a bit of hostile manner, this is not the case though

dp · 2005-02-19 00:57:44

http://software.newsforge.com/software/ … ml?tid=130

:oops: 8) :shock:

cactus · 2005-02-19 01:20:11

dp wrote:

http://software.newsforge.com/software/ … ml?tid=130

Mark Carter is an elementary school teacher who lives in St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada.

:shock:

xerxes2 · 2005-02-19 06:33:23

even the comments on osnews were pretty pro arch, usually people just post when they think something sucks so arch must be doing something right,

skoal · 2005-02-19 08:25:53

The poignant article excerpt for me was:

"If you want a fast, lightweight distro that puts you in the driver's seat[...]"

At least for me it was. I pretty much had a gentoo distro on my other box, running LFS. I've been using it for the past week, since my Arch box caught "fire" recently. Hell, I thought I stripped out most of the docs when I made LFS. Just last nite, I wiped the LFS away and put Arch on my 2 gig'er. I saved ~300MB with the same apps, spare 1 or 2 <5MB ones.

I'm "driving" again bAAAAbyyy. I always dread taking my hands off the "wheel", needing the "services" of an LFS "beer" rolling around on the floarboards...

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