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Tried Arch Linux After 2 Years: Hummmmm

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 19, 2008

“I used Arch Linux from 2004 to 2006 with pleasure, with my
company we also founded the Arch Linux Italian Community (managed
by us ’till 2007, now it’s managed by the community itself) because
we really loved this distro. In 2006 I decided to switch to Ubuntu
because I switched to a laptop and I needed an easy wireless
configuration and an easier printer configuration ’cause I was
moving from office to office every day… but
that’s another story.

“Today I decided to give Arch a try to see what’s happened in
these 2 years (actually I’m not in love with Ubuntu anymore, I
can’t understand why but it’s far to be
‘stable’ on my machines…) and also because I
always liked the rolling release philosophy but AFAIK there’s no
big distro using that (Arch apart)…”


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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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