[Wylug-discuss] Wylug-discuss Digest, Vol 78, Issue 7

[Jim Jackson]

Thanks for the review of pacman Simon. I've decided to do for Arch linux on 
my laptop (it's my "test" machine :-) and see how it goes.

cheers
Jim
On Thu, 20 Oct 2011, Simon Whiteley wrote:

> >
> >  Anybody using Arch Linux? I've heard good things, but I am a bit wedded to
> >  Debian's packaging system. What's pacman like? and does their package
> >  management really work.
> >
> 
> Yes, I use Arch Linux on all (5) my systems (servers, netbook, desktop) and
> six other laptops and desktops that family and friends run.  I too was only
> ever impressed by the Debian package management until I came across Pacman,
> the Arch package manager, which I believe is equal to, if not superior to,
> dpkg/apt/synaptic.
> 
> You do need to be careful if you play Pacman Roulette, the game where you
> simply run '(sudo) pacman -Syu' every 5 minutes or so, as you are literally
> running on the bleeding edge and occasionally, probably happened to me twice
> in three years, you can get cut up!  It is always possible to stitch up the
> wounds and recover the system (although you have current back-ups, don't
> you?) but I usually take the opportunity to start a fresh install with my
> new 'favourite' features from scratch.
> 
> Arch Linux is *the* 'distro hopping stopper' as I will testify after several
> years of looking at the green grass on the other side of the fence I don't
> even bother installing any other distro  because anything that is available
> on Fedora/Ubuntu/OpenSuse can be installled/applied to Arch.
> 
> 
> All the best,
> 
> Simon.
>