Arch Linux 0.6 (Widget) was released yesterday. You can find out more at their website here. Elsewhere, Rubyx is a new linux distribution based on some interesting concepts like user-mode packages installation and a modern init system, and a rationalized services control. It is based on a new pkg managment system that features parallel build/make.
Are there any? I didn’t see any on the website.
I really love Arch Linux. It’s fast, simple and the community is fantastic. Only one system configuration file to get all your hardware, networking stuff, daemons, timezone, etc up and running.
Besides that, Arch has the possibility to download and install binary packages with deps resolving and to upgrade your system with one single command. It also uses the Arch Build System, which is comparable with FreeBSD’s ports. And the binary packages are i686 optimised, so performance is very good. This is the perfect distro for the experienced Linux user. It’s even better than Slackware, Gentoo and Debian imho. Actually, it is a perfect combination between them.
btw Sorry for my bad English
There is no point trying to convince people Arch Linux is better than Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, etc.
Each user prefers his/her own distro for his/her own reasons.
That being said, I agree with you. After using Slackware for years, I really like Arch Linux so far.
Yes, i too would recommend giving Arch a try if you are currently using debian, slack or gentoo. That’s mainly the type of crowd it appeals to. It’s not for the newbie or passive desktop user. Other than that, pacman rules.
To each their own though.
It’s never been my intention to convince people to start using Arch. I only gave my opinion. There are enough reasons not to use Arch.
thats what i’ve thought linux had been missing for a while! if i’m an end user i don’t want to have to wait for some admin to install something for me… and if i could downlaod the source and compile it why couldn’t i just get it through that pakcage manager?!? good work… unless i’m confused about what user-mode package installation is…
I moved to Arch from Gentoo about a year ago.
All I have to say, is it’s simple, clean, and easy to work with. pacman, the package management software is excellent; I have never experienced a broken tree, and updating package lists, and installing new packages is painless.
Even though much of the software I use isn’t in Arch (yet), I found it easy to put together packages of my own with only a few lines in a script. There is a public FTP server for sharing these packages.
All in all, Arch makes me happy. 🙂
You can, download , compile and run packages without being root. you simple install them to your home directory,
Only your user account will have access unless you specify otherwise. Now you can’t install an RPM that way, but most packages that you compile yourself can be adjusted for that.
It is possible to do,(I know guys who use firefox that way) But the program can’t be used by everybody easily.
I’m a very new fan of Arch Linux. I use Gentoo on my main desktop, and I love it, but I didn’t really fancy compiling the “world” on a much more humble laptop, so I tried Arch. It’s great – clean, simple and very easy to manage. I might even deploy it on our only Linux server at work, to replace an old Red Hat installation.
Top marks for producing a distribution that’s different from the crowd, but very approachable and instantly appealing. Though it’s a “bare metal” install process, you get a warm buzz of satisfaction from getting it going. Easier than Gentoo, but still a fuzzy feeling of accomplishment. The fact that they’ve specifically catered for binary *and* source packages is neat.
“There are enough reasons not to use Arch.”
Like what?
A chinese desktop user who doesn’t know how to improve Chinese Charactor display quality, for instance. Only problem with Arch I had is its support for chinese display, I got some websites’ chinese totally messed-up.
> A chinese desktop user who doesn’t know how to improve Chinese Charactor display quality, for instance. Only problem with Arch I had is its support for chinese display, I got some websites’ chinese totally messed-up.
So what distro are you using then?
“There are enough reasons not to use Arch.”
A small distro like Arch hasn’t (yet) all the natively packaged software and polish that some bigger and more mature distros can offer. That being said, I think that Arch is already quite ready for full time use (although it’s currently only version 0.6) and it has the potential to become as popular as Gentoo.
Did everybody miss the the link? RubyX is one of the more advanced distros out yet making Gentoo and Arch look like dinosaur dung. It’s just wonderful to see people take different directions in Linux evolution. For it’s revolutionary aspects alone RubyX should have qualified for it’s own blurb on the main page. Why is it being short changed here?
Thanks (Sphinx) for says nice things. Like any new distro, Rubyx needs some users before people will start talking about it and making comparisons with other distros. But since it was only announced yesterday, we’ll have to wait a day or two for people to install it and give some feedback.
It looks good though. 20Gb of downloads in 24hours means lots of people will be trying it, and I look forward to some feedback! But I’m not looking forward to the paying for the bandwidth
Stay tuned!
Are there any? I didn’t see any on the website.
Not to diss the original poster, but this is quite typical of OSNews, judging an OS by its screenshots 🙂
this is quite typical of OSNews, judging an OS by its screenshots 🙂
but think about it. would you want to use an os that makes your eyes hurt?
btw, this rubyx thing sounds pretty cool. i’m definately going to try it out.
“It looks good though. 20Gb of downloads in 24hours means lots of people will be trying it, and I look forward to some feedback! But I’m not looking forward to the paying for the bandwidth
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One word: BitTorrent
I wish more people used it