PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 165, Issue 3

[Stephen Partington]

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 at 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 at 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 at live.com>
> wrote:
> >> What is the purpose of all these different distros?
> >>
> >>
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> >>  > 1. Re: Phoenix Linux (Matthew Crews)
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> >>  > Date: Sun, 3 Mar 2019 15:15:37 +0100 (CET)
> >>  > From: Matthew Crews <mailinglists at mattcrews.com>
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> >>  > Subject: Re: Phoenix Linux
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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
> >>  >>
> >>  >>
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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).
> >>  >
> >>  > Hobby distros, especially hobby respins, are a tough sell for me
> because
> >>  > of the lack of support. I'd normally prefer to stick to upstream (in
> >>  > this case, Lubuntu).
> >>  >
> >>  > 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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