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| Sat September 19th, 2009 at 3:25 PM PDT |
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I started using Arch Linux on my main workstation this month, and so far have been really impressed. Why Arch? I wanted something with the customizability and control of Gentoo, but I've been frustrated with Gentoo's slowness due to compiling everything, and its dependency hell caused by poorly written ebuilds and the brokenness of the Portage system. Arch is a lot like Gentoo. Very bare-bones base system, no graphical installer, and the ability to compile everything from source. It departs from Gentoo, though, in that by default the package manager, pacman, downloads and installs binary packages. This is possible because the Arch repositories contain binary packages of everything! However, if you want to customize a given package by reconfiguring it, you can download the script used to make the binary package, modify it, and recompile your own package, and then use pacman to install it like normal.This is perfect, because in reality, recompiling every single package like in Gentoo is overkill. There are really only a handful of packages on any system that need to be customized that way, and the time wasted for the others is immense. So far my Linux distro progression has been:
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