Official Arch vs Gentoo??

murffatksig · 2007-10-26 04:16:55

Please do not discuss the two distros in this thread. I mearly want to make a suggestion. Every so often, I see the Arch vs Gentoo argument pop up and it runs for ever. Should we have an unofficial Arch Vs Gentoo thread. We already have an official/unoffical Arch is the best thread.

Just a thought. Again, please dont discuss the two here, I just want to get peoples thoughts on giving the topic it's own thread.

kensai · 2007-10-26 04:25:24

You might be referring to this thread, if that is the case that thread was about a game in some online FPS in which there would be the team of Arch Linux against the team of Gentoo Linux. I think for the health of the forums and for the sanity of us all to remain without major alterations I would suggest that this Official topic never happens. It would just encourage flaming.

Last edited by kensai (2007-10-26 04:25:34)

Phenax · 2007-10-26 17:24:21

I really don't think there should be.

They're two different entities, no comparisons. To each their own, you know. People choose a distribution because it fits their personal needs.

Cerebral · 2007-10-26 17:34:16

I don't think it requires a forum thread - that's almost asking for trouble. These kind of discussions often quickly become flame wars. It's unsavoury.

skottish · 2007-10-26 18:02:21

I think distro X vs. distro Y threads should be automatically moved to Off Topic so that they can't be picked up by search engines. They're usually just noise.

voonte · 2007-10-26 18:26:20

I think taking a discussion in the format of X vs Y is the wrong approach, no matter what X and Y represents.

I would welcome a thread to discuss Arch and another distro, if and only if there was a clear purpose to the discussion. A discussion just for the sake of it won't benefit anybody but flamers. An example could be What could Arch learn from Gentoo?, and the purpose of the thread could be to come up with areas where Gentoo does well, and Arch could benefit from.

xaw · 2007-10-26 21:19:09

@voonte: I totally agree with your suggestion about what arch could learn from gentoo.

But in general, we shouldn't focus on a specific distribution or project for anything. As a free software community, we should watch and learn from others, this is true, but we also need to focus on making our own niche one that is functioning properly and in a unified/coherent manner.

Dusty · 2007-10-26 22:40:20

For comparison, its in the wiki, which is a good venue for this as flamewars are pretty uncommon there:

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_vs_Others

Feel free to improve it -- when I started the page, I was hoping people would go into more detail.

For what arch can learn from gentoo... I think you'd be better off posting very specific issues to the bugtracker.

Dusty

Cogar · 2007-10-27 19:22:41

I agree we should restrict this to the Wiki. People here and at the Gentoo forum have already hashed out a comparison between the two that is accurate and acceptable to both groups. Beyond that, I suspect that few people here care about Gentoo, otherwise they would be using it instead of Arch.

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