I thought arch was just binary. Never knew they started having both.
If arch is offering a binary system, isn’t that a closed system and doesn’t that violate open source license. That is my question.

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 13:58, Stephen Partington wrote:
Arch if i am correct is both. and like Gentoo you can build as you install with the option of compile from source. 

On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 1:40 PM Harold Hartley <wheelie207@ownmail.net> wrote:
> __
> The first part you said I couldn’t have said any better.
> Now isn’t arch a binary system which has their system files and packages in binary form.
> That doesn’t leave much for fixing a problem on the system if it’s binary files.

> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, at 13:27, Stephen Partington wrote:
>> Mostly it is just a personal preference. Sometimes it is related to the window manager. Sometimes it is the package manager. There are a number of reasons. 
>> 
>> I personally am torn between arch and Ubuntu (especially with their lite install option) I like both for different reasons. I have been considering moving to arch on my laptop. 
>> 
>> On Mon, Mar 4, 2019, 12:04 PM Aaron Jones <retro64xyz@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > To entertain all the people who can't do Arch.
>> > 
>> > Le Troll Face.jpeg here
>> > 
>> > On Mon, Mar 4, 2019 at 11:29 AM Stephen Elliott <tnflyfisher@live.com> wrote:
>> >> What is the purpose of all these different distros? 
>> >> 
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>> >> > On 3/1/19 6:18 PM, der.hans wrote:
>> >> >> moin moin,
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> I have seen references to this, but for the first time went and looked.
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> Phoenix Linux - based on lubuntu 16.04.3 LTS
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoenixlinux.weebly.com%2F&amp;data=02%7C01%7C%7C763b23d1df1b4e6336a108d6a00a7265%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872364060787903&amp;sdata=gbDmb4Xv3bBpMO%2By4qtTA2sPhge2s82e39Mx3Daj%2F0M%3D&amp;reserved=0
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>> >> >> Has anyone tried it?
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> ciao,
>> >> >> 
>> >> >> der.hans
>> >> > 
>> >> > I haven't tried it, but it looks like a hobby respin of Lubuntu, but
>> >> > with none of the support (and lagging behind upstream by a significant
>> >> > margin).
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>> >> > Hobby distros, especially hobby respins, are a tough sell for me because
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>> >> > The same person responsible for Phoenix also makes Feren OS, which is
>> >> > based off of Linux Mint (and in the process of rebasing to Ubuntu LTS).
>> >> > Feren is relatively well received and does have a support structure, and
>> >> > looks fairly nice.
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