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]]> By: Jay http://sigttou.com/fedora-slimfast/comment-page-1#comment-5 Jay Mon, 13 Jul 2009 07:58:25 +0000 http://sigttou.com/?p=51#comment-5 Have you tried Arch Linux before? I use it as my primary OS and I love it. It sounds right up your alley, too. It's very minimal by default. And I really mean minimal. The ISO is about 200mb, and only the bare essentials are installed. It has a great package manager called pacman. If there isn't a package for the software you want, you can easily make your own package from source, and use the package manager to install it. And, there is the Arch User Repository where you can post your package build and download other builds from other users. You can vote on packages and the best ones are eventually moved to an official repository. Arch follows a rolling release model, so a simple "sudo pacman -Syu" refreshes the package lists and upgrades all available packages. It also has a great forum, wiki, and IRC channel. Since the learning curve for Arch is relatively steep, it's a pretty sophisticated community. It's worth a shot, at least. :) Have you tried Arch Linux before? I use it as my primary OS and I love it. It sounds right up your alley, too.

It’s very minimal by default. And I really mean minimal. The ISO is about 200mb, and only the bare essentials are installed.

It has a great package manager called pacman. If there isn’t a package for the software you want, you can easily make your own package from source, and use the package manager to install it. And, there is the Arch User Repository where you can post your package build and download other builds from other users. You can vote on packages and the best ones are eventually moved to an official repository.

Arch follows a rolling release model, so a simple “sudo pacman -Syu” refreshes the package lists and upgrades all available packages.

It also has a great forum, wiki, and IRC channel. Since the learning curve for Arch is relatively steep, it’s a pretty sophisticated community.

It’s worth a shot, at least. :)

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