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1. Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Linux

   New !linux distribution, #hadron: http://ur1.ca/7gbzc Why not just try !arch or #gentoo, I wonder?

   
   Thursday, 12-Jan-12 22:13:52 UTC from web at Madison, Wisconsin, United States
   • Ionuț Bîru Arch Linux

     No thanks. I love my !arch

     Thursday, 12-Jan-12 22:20:41 UTC
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   • Neil Hodges Gentoo Linux

     @hoelzro Sounds the same as !Gentoo.

     Thursday, 12-Jan-12 22:45:37 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Neil Hodges

     I know, right? Why bother making a new distro?

     Thursday, 12-Jan-12 22:47:50 UTC
   • Harley Laue Arch Linux

     @hoelzro Their aim sounds much closer to gentoo than arch. I think some people just prefer to do it themselves.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 14:27:01 UTC
   • Harley Laue Arch Linux

     @hoelzro BTW, I like to mention SourceMage as another interesting source based distro. The package manager is written in bash.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 14:29:23 UTC
   • Gatoso Kot Arch Linux , Linux

     I think the greatest and powerful feature of GNU Linux is the many flavours existing

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 14:56:14 UTC
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   • Harley Laue Arch Linux , Gatoso Kot

     @zuargo It's a great strength as well as a weakness

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 15:05:41 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Linux , Gatoso Kot

     Variety is great, but I don't see any distinctiveness being added here; it seems like just a Gentoo clone.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 15:38:21 UTC
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   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Harley Laue

     That's fine, but that raises the question: Why don't they just use/contribute to Gentoo?

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 15:39:22 UTC
   • Gatoso Kot Arch Linux , Harley Laue

     @losinggeneration I agree...

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:18:53 UTC
   • Gatoso Kot Arch Linux , Linux

     @hoelzro the package manager was developed by the own developers of the distro, that is new, also, it provides only free software

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:25:48 UTC
   • Harley Laue Arch Linux

     @hoelzro (only speculation) maybe they tried but gentoo's devs wanted to go a different direction.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:47:18 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Linux , Gatoso Kot

     The "only free software" part is unique; I like that. However, a new package manager isn't that unique; I feel too many reinvent the wheel

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:48:21 UTC
   • Harley Laue Arch Linux

     @hoelzro another scenario: they didn't like the gentoo portage architecture and thought they could do better with a basically rewrite

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:49:14 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Harley Laue

     That's kinda what I thought.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:52:40 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Harley Laue

     I suppose; I tend to dislike it when people reinvent the wheel, but sometimes that's how progress is made.

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:53:37 UTC
   • Rob Hoelz Arch Linux , Harley Laue

     The only problem I have with it now that I don't see anything unique...maybe time will tell!

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:54:48 UTC
   • Harley Laue Arch Linux

     @hoelzro It really is hard to tell at this stage since it seems to be in the early stages of development still. time will tell :)

     Friday, 13-Jan-12 16:58:25 UTC