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I'm sorry if you feel like I point them towards my "pet OS". I should have stated more clearly there are other alternatives, and this only is my opinion.
by Sirupsen 16y ago
I'm sorry if you feel like I point them towards my "pet OS". I should have stated more clearly there are other alternatives, and this only is my opinion.
- blacksmythe 16y agoWhat advantages does Arch Linux have over Ubuntu?
- dho 16y agohttp://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_Distributions#Ubuntu http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch_Compared_to_Other_D...
- Sirupsen 16y agoRead at Dho's link. My primary reason for the switch was that I wanted to learn more about Linux.
- Macha 16y agoThe main one: Packages don't end up 6 (or more) months out of date between updates. The maybe a advantage (if you agree with the OP)/maybe a disadvantage(if you like me, don't): Much more manual configuration.
- foldr 16y agoBeen a while since I used Ubuntu, but you can typically install newer packages from pre-release versions. You're not locked in to the 6 month upgrade cycle. I think it's a pretty good model. For 90% of the installed software there's really no reason to update packages more than every 6 months.
- hvs 16y agoWhat does Arch Linux have to do with developing Ruby?
- blasdel 16y agoDon't have to wait 6 months and upgrade everything to get slightly newer versions of packages. The packages are pretty direct from upstream instead of being patched and split apart by the distro.