PLUG-discuss Digest, Vol 165, Issue 3

Tue Mar 5 00:54:36 MST 2019

On Mon Mar 04 19, Harold Hartley wrote:
>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.
>

I think the major difference about arch is that they do a rolling
release. That would be the selling point of it for me, if I were to
switch. They aren't any different than other distros when it comes to
source access as far as I know. I believe you can get source for
packages through pacman. I don't really keep up on other distros these
days, does anyone else have you build from source besides Gentoo?

Over the years I've played around with or used Slackware, Debian,
Ubuntu, and Gentoo, but for the past 20 it has mainly been Fedora and
Red Hat before that.

>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 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?
>> >> >>
>> >> >>
>> >> >> > On Mar 3, 2019, at 12:00 PM, <plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org> <plug-discuss-request at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:
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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>
>> >> >> > To: plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
>> >> >> > 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
>> >> >> >>
>> >> >> >> https://eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fphoenixlinux.weebly.com%2F&data=02%7C01%7C%7C763b23d1df1b4e6336a108d6a00a7265%7C84df9e7fe9f640afb435aaaaaaaaaaaa%7C1%7C0%7C636872364060787903&sdata=gbDmb4Xv3bBpMO%2By4qtTA2sPhge2s82e39Mx3Daj%2F0M%3D&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).
>> >> >> >
>> >> >> > 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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>> > Harold Hartley
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>> > wheelie207 at ownmail.net
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