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Arch is insanely stable given it uses rolling updates. I'm not quite sure how they pull it off. I've had far worse problems with Fedora and Ubuntu, which someti

by nvarsj 8y ago

Arch is insanely stable given it uses rolling updates. I'm not quite sure how they pull it off. I've had far worse problems with Fedora and Ubuntu, which sometimes are not even fixable because you can't easily update to the latest upstream releases (most noticeably with the kernel). On Arch, I run `pacman -Syu` every month and my system stays up to date with basically no downtime.

SkyMarshal 8y ago
Does Arch have anything similar to Ubuntu/Debian's Alternatives System [1][2]? This is very useful for managing different versions of the same package/s and I tend to rely on it for a number of things. [1]:https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives https://wiki.debian.org/DebianAlternatives [2]:http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/update-alternatives.8.html http://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/precise/man8/update-alte...
- nvarsj 8y ago
  You can freeze package versions, and there are also archives of older packages. But generally most of the repos only have the latest released packages.