Re: [orca-list] New Member

[Steve Holmes <steve holmes88 gmail com>]

On 03/13/2010 10:26 PM, trev saunders gmail com wrote:
> So I'm curious what people like about arch especially over gentoo?
>
> I never tried Gentoo but if I wanted to ever build a linux system completely, I think I wold rather try 
> something like Linux from Scratch or something.  But I grew up on Slackware, so to speak and Arch Linux has 
> some similarities to Slackware but yet the package dependency tracking and control is much better.  Plus 
> there are a lot more binary packages available then with Slackware and most of all, Gnome is available for 
> Arch - not Slackware.  You mentioned in your message that Arch, being dependent on binary packages would make 
> it seem to be more limitted as to what one can do with the system.  The other package distros would seem more 
> restrictive to me like Debian, Ubuntu or Fedorah, etc.  Actually, Arch's package build system is so cool and 
> fairly easy to use and build new scripts that it would be very easy to create custom packages for the Arch 
> environment or even customize Arch packages.
>    

Orca works very well on Arch Linux by the way, to keep things on topic 
here.:)