Re: Arch Linux
  By: Gerrit Kuehn to Chicken Head on Sat Jan 11 2020 10:35 am

 > Hello Chicken!
 >
 > 10 Jan 20 17:19, Chicken Head wrote to All:
 >
 >  CH> Convince me otherwise.  Like Gentoo, I've gotten part way through
 >  CH> this and realized "why the fuck am I doing this?"
 >
 > It all depends on what you're actually looking for. Right now I can only
 > guess. Ever tried Sabayon?
 >
 >
 > Regards,
 > Gerrit
 >
 > ... 10:35AM  up 4 days, 19:37, 5 users, load averages: 0.28, 0.32, 0.32

Good Question!   I guess what I am looking for is what I got from
FreeBSD...just a nice minimalist setup that I can build on, as opposed to say,
Ubuntu where you get too much and end up removing what you don't want.

This would be for a server-based system with minimal GUI (but still has X and
maybe WindowMaker for when I need it).

Now I like the idea of Arch's version of FreeBSD "ports."  ALthough Debian
promised something like that with apt-src and it is nowhere near ports.  I
haven't gotten to the point where I'Ve experienced Arch's version of "ports"
since the install left me with no networking and I need to start over...which
I'M not likely to do at this point.

I suppose I can build "upwards" from Ubuntu or debian "server" but I just
wanted to try something new I've heard lots of good things about.
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