Arch Linux

omgwtfbyobbq

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Registered: 2006-07-04

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Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

Having *current binaries available is great. Plus the testing cycle seems to be faster, and in general, the distro seems to be held together a bit better, if that makes any sense. AUR is frieken awesome, as are the forums.
Anyway, this post isn't about how much I like Arch, it is about whether there's anything better/different out there. I've bounced around all the usual distros (RH, Gentoo, Ubuntu, etc...) and was wondering if the BSD's had anything novel to offer? Does package management get better than pacman? I'd rather not spend too much time on another "Gentoo" when there's another "Arch" out there.

*No offense to slack

test1000

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Registered: 2005-04-03

Posts: 834

Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

i haven't tried freebsd but if i was going to test another os it would be that or if i didn't need alot of packages: frugalware. Although for all i know, they might have a bunch of packages now i doubt they have more than arch that have aur.

checkout freebsd.org ports though and search for anything; they have aloooot of packages. probably more than any linux distro

maybe their package system sucks though and it is harder to make a package for yourself than it is in arch; i don't know.

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clarence

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Registered: 2005-10-12

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

Or get really weird and go for a non-linux os like syllableOS or haikuOS or skyOS.

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FUBAR

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Registered: 2004-12-08

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

I'm going to give OpenSolaris (NexentaOS) a try soon.

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jaboua

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Registered: 2005-11-05

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

After using freebsd for over a half year, Arch was the only thing pulling me back to linux, and that's alot because Arch has some of the things I like in BSD. *BSD package management might need some love though. Beware if you test it, you might feel like a n00b again (at least I felt that way). I expected it to be another linux distro, but there were lots of differences too from linux.

deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

Posts: 693

Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

Arch and Kernel 2.6.x is the reason I use Linux today. I used FreeBSD until I found Arch (I found Arch right around when 0.5 came out).

Gustavo

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From: Brazil

Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 92

Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

PC-BSD is nice:

http://www.pcbsd.org/

You can use ports and their binary package system. However, they don't work very well together.

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

Arch now has a LiveCD/DVD call Larch build in user contributions.

Check it out!

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benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

i automatically disregard any post with 'zomg' in the title.  The username omgwtfbyobbq doesn't help, either.

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user

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Registered: 2006-03-29

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

plan9 dude plan9
http://cm.bell-labs.com/plan9/

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deficite

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From: Augusta, GA

Registered: 2005-06-02

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

i automatically disregard any post with 'zomg' in the title.  The username omgwtfbyobbq doesn't help, either.

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So did you get your minions to regard the post and make that reply? :-P

omgwtfbyobbq

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Registered: 2006-07-04

Posts: 226

Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

The username omgwtfbyobbq doesn't help, either.

I can't have everyone depending on me for their broiled meats! But, I digress, or have regressed, or have ingressed upon distress? Anyway, thanks to all for the recommendations, this should be interesting. 

benplaut

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Registered: 2006-06-13

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

The username omgwtfbyobbq doesn't help, either.

I can't have everyone depending on me for their broiled meats! But, I digress, or have regressed, or have ingressed upon distress? Anyway, thanks to all for the recommendations, this should be interesting. 

lol 

@deficate: that was my 'bot'  8)

profoX

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2006-04-13

Posts: 110

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Re: Zomg arch is great, goodbye everyone else.

I'm going to give OpenSolaris (NexentaOS) a try soon.

Join the club, but people at the IRC channel say it's pretty dumb and still unstable sometimes
(irc.freenode.net #gnusol)

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