[CLUE-Tech] Arch Linux: Thumbs Up!

[Mike Benavides]

Matt:
Have you tried Debian Mepis?  They use the cutting edge packages and 
kernels.  They are using their brand of Sarge and Installation is quiet 
good.  Dependencies seem to be handled quit well with and much better 
system(apt-get) than rpms used by Fedora or any other Red Hat 
look-a-like.  The group at Mepis is West Virginia are doing a good job.

Mike

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>>The package list on the homepage is a rather strange combination of stuff
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>>* bleeding edge gcc
>>* middle of the road glibc
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>Well, Debian-Woody is still on glibc-2.2, which was starting to make it
>damn near impossible to upgrade anything--one of the reasons I decided
>to try something new. Anyway, I don't know that I necessarily want the
>very latest libc--most of the API is quite stable, and new version are
>likely to have new bugs.
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>>* quite current kernel (2.6.8-r3)
>>* ancient xfce3
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>Well, they also have xfce4 ... in the Extra repository.
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