[ale] Opinions of Arch Linux?

[Marvin, International Martian of Mystery]

That's what's really cool about linux.  There's a distro for everybody.  :-)

Things that drive one person nuts might be something someone else can't
live without.  This is probably something which should be borne in mind
when evangelizing and "converting" wind-blows users.   Your favorite
distro, which you just hooked them up with, may not be what they want or
need- and this may be why a lot of people end up using wind-blows again
or converting to Mac.

I've just discovered a new distro- it's running on the machine I'm using
right now (well, one of them- thunderbird is actually resident on my
firewall box, not this one... ;-)).  It's called "dyne:bolic".   I don't
remember where I ran across it- it may have even been here.  But it's
tools and methodology give it great potential to be a "universal"
distro- that is to say a front-end which could let you install and try
as many different distros as you'd like by just dragging and dropping a
system image from a CD or some other source to a hard-drive. 

Can you imagine being able to run redhat, slackware, debian- you name
it- so easily?  Surely, this is an install process that even the lamest
windblowz user could deal with?  It needs to be packaged with a way to
auto-magically and easily install grub, but other than that, you don't
really need to change the system your potential convert has on their
disk.  Just enough disk space for whatever image has been chosen.

This could be something the list could make a project out of- if there's
any interest.  I'm certainly going to toy with the concept in my leisure
time... :-)





Dan Lambert wrote:
> James,
>
> Have you even looked at or tried the Ubuntu 6.06 LTS? I'm running it on 
> an IBM Thinkpad T41, and it's the most stable and usable Linux I've 
> found. I had tried some of the earlier versions of Ubuntu/Kubuntu, and I 
> was not overly impressed. This is a completely different system from the 
> usability and workability viewpoint.
>
> If you are just totally set on Debian only, then what about Mepis?
>
> Dan
>
> James Sumners wrote:
>
>   
>> They totally jacked up the default package management in 10.1. I am
>> quite sure that is why it took so long for the "Enterprise" version to
>> be released.
>>
>> As for Ubuntu. Ubuntu is _NOT_ Debian (I would emphasize that not even
>> more if this weren't plain text). I used it before I went to SuSe and
>> hated it. It is like running Debian stable with a mix of testing and
>> un
>>>> I plan on switching back to Debian/Sid once my new drive comes in.
>>>> However, if anyone can make a compelling argument for using Arch
>>>> Linux instead, I may give it a try. Keep in mind that I prefer
>>>> Debian and the "Debian Way". So, if you have experience with both,
>>>> please speak up. Or if you just really like Arch and can give a good
>>>> overview of the system, let's hear it.
>>>>      
>>>>