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shining

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Registered: 2006-05-10

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

If arch ever dies (i hope that never happens) Debian.

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Ryujin

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From: Centerville, Utah

Registered: 2005-05-12

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

If Arch dies I will have to go old testemant and mourn for a good 40-80 days in sackcloth, and then change professions so I don't have to look at computers anymore.

But seriously, I try out other distros all the time, I don't know where I would go, nothing even comes close to what Arch does

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Luna

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From: A world of my own

Registered: 2007-07-20

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I'm kinda tempted to try Lunar...

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wooptoo

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Registered: 2007-04-23

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

FreeBSD or Debian. I'm kinda fed up with Arch. It breaks after almost every pacman -Syu (today it was fontconfig, two weeks ago it was udev, etc.) I like a lot of things about Arch, but sometimes it's too darn bleeding edge...

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clam

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Registered: 2005-12-28

Posts: 33

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

FreeBSD or Debian. I'm kinda fed up with Arch. It breaks after almost every pacman -Syu (today it was fontconfig, two weeks ago it was udev, etc.) I like a lot of things about Arch, but sometimes it's too darn bleeding edge...

haha. ya. me too. I never pacman -Syu, it's just asking for a troubleshooting session for my system.  I just upgrade as I need packages/kernels.  debian for me too.

loupy

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Registered: 2006-10-31

Posts: 77

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I've never had an issue with pacman -Syu.   I hope Arch is here to stay, but if not I'll most likely go Debian.

Flying Saxman

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From: Northern Hesse

Registered: 2007-02-26

Posts: 252

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

If there should ever be a reason for me to leave (doesn't look like that actually), I would try OpenBSD. But only in this case. Anyway, I think, I'll stay with arch for a long, for a very very long time!

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sobi

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Registered: 2006-11-14

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

If Arch dies (I hope this would never happen) I think I will install PLD Linux or some of BSD again. BSD systems are very interesting... But none of them are as good as Arch.

n8schicht

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From: Südbaden

Registered: 2006-12-27

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I also never had issues after pacman -Syu. Even today after kernel 2.6.22 got installed, I just had to reinstall VirtualBox (because of vboxdrv), but that's no pacman -Syu related issue.
I hope Arch lives for a looong time, as it is (for me) the best choice in all Linux flavors out there. But if it dies in 100 years or so    then I think I would go back to Debian.

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wuischke

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From: Suisse Romande

Registered: 2007-01-06

Posts: 630

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Probably one of the following, depending on the usage: Syllable, Crux, Vector, Zenwalk, OpenBSD, Belenix

yettenet

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Registered: 2007-05-17

Posts: 129

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I fell in love with pacman, I really like it, so I tried the other distro with pacman: Frugalware. I'm using it now as a main distro, since I don't have ANY problems at all, whereas I had some with Arch that I couldn't solve. An other advantage is that it's well-documented and I don't have to google every time I need something. However, I still miss Arch's "freshness" sometimes, but hell, it was too bleeding-edge for me.

zodmaner

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Registered: 2007-07-11

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Never think of this question before (I just recently changed from Ubuntu Feisty Fawn to Arch).

I hope that Arch will be my final distro, but if I had to choose than I'd choose a distro that is similar to Arch: maybe Zenwalk (for its simplicity) or Frugalware (because it use pacman).

Ibex

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Registered: 2006-03-02

Posts: 135

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

My girlfriend was using Archlinux for quite a while when she switched to MacOSX. But sometimes she realy wants Archlinux back. Hehe, I am not going to use another OS in the future. Archlinux FTW .

pelle.k

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From: Åre, Sweden (EU)

Registered: 2006-04-30

Posts: 667

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

My girlfriend was using Archlinux for quite a while when she switched to MacOSX

That is seriously cool. I wish more women was using arch linux. You dont have to get all down and nerdy to use arch. Just open minded.

I fell in love with pacman, I really like it, so I tried the other distro with pacman: Frugalware.

Frugalware is cool. I like it because they have a stable branch, update every 6 months. Some of the developers can be a bit harsh, and the forums are a bit sparse. I wish they could switch bbs/forum, because it's bleh! I don't like the loss of focus, like they activate _some_ daemons by default (when you install a package) but not all. That's just confusing...
They havent configured hal to mount vfat with gnome-volume-manager because it _could_ be dangerous, but still, i would like the option anyway.
Nevertheless, frugalware is among my top 5 distros.

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Gweg

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Registered: 2006-02-27

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

FreeBSD or Debian. I'm kinda fed up with Arch. It breaks after almost every pacman -Syu (today it was fontconfig, two weeks ago it was udev, etc.) I like a lot of things about Arch, but sometimes it's too darn bleeding edge...

haha. ya. me too. I never pacman -Syu, it's just asking for a troubleshooting session for my system.  I just upgrade as I need packages/kernels.  debian for me too.

don't forget the Ignorepkg option in pacman.conf...

To answer the thread, I will never quit arch.
And I will never stop to try others new ones.. I recently try ubuntu (++), Fedora(+++), sidux(+), grml(++), elive(+),openSUSE(++)  (my opinions).
I want to try a BSD system to see how fast it could be.
I like Arch cos:
- speed of installation
- news packages are available really
- completely multi languages
- customizable

Frugal is good also but the full  integrity packages check is really dawn long!!

With Arch, yo do what your really want with your system.. you really control it.

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Jessehk

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From: Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2007-01-16

Posts: 152

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I absolutely love Arch, but I do get curious. I might try OpenSuse just to see what it's all about.

iBertus

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From: Greenville, NC

Registered: 2004-11-04

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

I also thought of OpenSuse when life started making it difficult to keep my Arch systems fully bleeding-edge and I wanted something that "just works" without going to Ubuntu. I'm still using Arch and probably will be for awhile.

buttons

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From: NJ, USA

Registered: 2007-08-04

Posts: 620

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Hmm.  I guess Arch x86_64

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Misfit138

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From: USA

Registered: 2006-11-27

Posts: 4,189

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Well, to be honest, as long as Arch exists and maintains its current design, I don't plan on adopting another distribution as my main os. I may mess around with live cd's, but I doubt even that...I'm just not that interested I guess. Reading reviews and viewing screen shots satisfy my curiosity.

Agreed. I dabble with Slackware for fun, but Arch "just works" with everything I possibly throw at it, and no other distro does that for me..None.

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Tido

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Registered: 2007-06-21

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Thought I'd add I probably pacman -Syu every other day and never  have had a problem with it.

Mardukas

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From: Lithuania

Registered: 2007-08-05

Posts: 121

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Well it would me nice for me to try Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD and Minix. But if Arch would die today, my next choise would be Debian unstable (or maybe sidux).

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jean-paul

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From: Germany

Registered: 2007-03-26

Posts: 61

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Oh, Arch will never die !!

I will try out Lunar, CRUX, Gentoo and maybe Sourcerer but I think I don't switch.

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chippy

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From: London, ON - Canada

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 15

Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

No question, 'cause I'm using it now before I bounce back to Arch: Windows XP Pro.  I know its taboo to mention Mr. Gates' OS, but it just works (with games, wireless networks, etc.), and there's a lot to be said for that.  I just wish it was as easy to program on it as a *nix system.  I'd like to try NetBSD, should I ever get into OS coding - I like their focus on clean, quality programming, and I much prefer the freedom (wow, what a loaded word) of the 3 or 4 clause BSD licences to the GPL.

That being said, Arch is just better at everything (but for the surmountable objections I raised above), which is why it is inconceivable that one would bounce back to anything other than Arch.  Also, its Canadian :-)

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pjeremy

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Registered: 2007-04-03

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

LFS, although technically not a distro.

azerty

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Registered: 2007-08-23

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Re: Which will be your next distro after Arch Linux?

Currently I have tried and used many operating systems such as:
FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Plan 9 from Bell Labs, GNU/Linux (incl. SuSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Arch), GNU/Hurd, Minix, WinXP, WinME, Win9x

The systems which impressed me much  are OpenBSD, Plan 9 from Bell Labs and GNU/Linux.

Plan 9 is a really interesting OS, it has a very smart approach to solve problems and make your life easier.
People interested in alternative operating systems should really give it a try, even if Plan 9 is useless for average desktop use.

The BSDs are pretty much rock-stable, especially OpenBSD with it's focus on security and a 'correct', well-documented system. They provide a really powerful system, but in some cases GNU/Linux is just more user-friendly. Yes, I think it is user-unfriendly when OpenBSD isn't able to provide me an acceptable framebuffer to work in the shell. But generally spoken I think BSD operating system are more powerful than GNU/Linux, because all the specific userland-tools are directly tied to each other and the kernel, so everything fits and just works.

BSD really is an operating system, GNU/Linux is just a bunch of tools thrown together and called a distribution.
But actually I am pretty much happy with GNU/Linux, it's stable enough for my needs, provides good performance and just works, so why change?

The only OS which could eventually make me leave GNU/Linux is Haiku, the comeback of a free BeOS.
But whether Archlinux would die one day, hopefully not, I'd consider migrating to Debian..

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