Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sat 31st Mar 2007 21:55 UTC, submitted by Kuat
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2005-07-08
That's what most people do, it does have a CD with more stuff on it, I forget what that includes, you can check their website to find out. ;-) One doesn't rely on releases either, it is a "rolling release", the installer only gets updated due to infrastructure needs.
It sort of reminds me of a cross between Slackware (simple init and configuration), Debian (package management), and a drop of Gentoo (abs) if you want that. A unique feature is AUR, it offers a repository, along with the decent-sized official repositories, that is user-contributed with little approval process; which means it has lots of packages without the package-approval-bureaucracy. Of course, that means its wise to examine the package builds of AUR stuff before you install if it hasn't received approval yet.