ArchLinux (was gentoo)

[Siri Amrit Kaur]

On Thursday 27 October 2005 08:22 pm Jason Spatafore kindly wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 October 2005 16:18, Chip33AZ at 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