[ale] Opinions of Arch Linux?

James Sumners james.sumners at gmail.com
Thu Aug 3 14:59:39 EDT 2006


The testing branch actually breaks more than the unstable branch. If
there is a major package that is broken in testing, it could take a
long time to get resolved. I don't like that. With unstable, the
package could be fixed the next day.

I like to have the latest and greatest versions of software on my
desktop machine. So I certainly wouldn't use Debian/stable on my
machine. But I also wouldn't run testing because of the lag time
between packages going into unstable and then to testing. In short, if
I run Debian on my desktop it will be Sid.

On 8/3/06, Rev. Johnny Healey <rev.null at gmail.com> wrote:
> If you prefer the debian way, but feel like you don't have time for sid, why
> don't you just run etch?  Is there a lot of software that you need that's
> only in sid?
>
>  -Rev. Johnny Healey
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