[clue-tech] Distro musings

[Dennis J Perkins]

> ... but I guess you've made up your mind, so I won't say anything about 
> Arch Linux, with which I've had very good experiences over the past 2 
> years. I won't tell you that, although it's more bleeding edge than not, 
> I've had very few cases of broken packages; or observe that the Arch 
> approach of doing a few simple things very well probably helps minimize 
> problems, or that the fact that it is a binary distro probably exposes 
> many issues before packages are released. Nor will I tell you that the 
> Arch community is by and large very sophisticated, but also more 
> newbie-friendly than many I've seen.


I've heard of Arch Linux.  What is distinctive about it?  What package
manager does it use?