On Thursday 27 October 2005 08:22 pm Jason Spatafore kindly wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:18, Chip33AZ@netscape.net wrote:
> > Lately, I've been really impressed with ArchLinux. The
> > installation took 15 minutes on a slow PII300 and it runs
> > extremely fast. All of the software I use is in their pacman
> > directory (MythTV, Mplayer with the plug-ins, etc). I would
> > highly recommend this.
>
> I'm curious...what is the base for this distro? I went to their
> site and realized that all their packages were tgz files. So, I'm
> guessing there's no package management? Also, it appears to be
> geared towards the Pentium class of cpus. Is this an accurate
> observation?
From what I've gathered, it's based on Slackware with the
Slackware/BSD-style init system. Then it uses a package management
tool called Pacman that I hear is quite capable. It seems to have
taken the best features from several distros.
Siri Amrit
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