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The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Posted Nov 8, 2007 9:37 UTC (Thu) by dale77 (subscriber, #1490)
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Perhaps ArchLinux could be considered amongst "development" distributions. 
It seems to track the latest releases of packages, and maintains a testing 
branch (available to users) where updates are quarantined for a time.

My Arch highlights:

- Binary packages
- Pacman PKGBUILD build system - a package management system simple enough 
for the average joe to create their own packages.
- Always very fresh versions of software

www.archlinux.org

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The Grumpy Editor's guide to (some) development distributions

Posted Nov 16, 2007 3:22 UTC (Fri) by dkite (guest, #4577) [Link]

And the reality of things breaking from time to time. The worst so far 
for me (having used Arch for only a year or so) was the Xorg 1.4 update 
which totally borked my ati setup. I'm now running the closed ati drivers 
until I have time to try the open ones again.

That being said, I've had more lockups requiring hard reset in the last 
week of running the Ati closed drivers than I did all the time running 
Arch, Gentoo (years) and cvs/svn builds of KDE3. Closed sucks.

Derek