ArchLinux--Smooth and Cuddly | Linux Today

ArchLinux–Smooth and Cuddly

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
May 8, 2007

[ Thanks to Borys
Musielak
for this link. ]

“ArchLinux or Arch for short is one of the uprising new
distributions. Well, at least compared to old folks like Debian or
Slackware it;s still fresh and shining 🙂 . Arch is gaining new
users and good reviews every day. Let’s find out why this is
happening.

“Arch is a rolling-release distro which means that the
repositories are updated regularly and not in a few month cycle
like Fedora or Ubuntu. New releases just update the install CDs
with recent packages, but the distribution is evolving constantly
regardless the releases…”

Complete
Story

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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