Probably more ahead of the game on new shiny things than Gentoo, too. Arch is the only OS that I have seen where the difference between testing and stable is about two hours.
No, really. The official process requires two signoffs on each architecture (x86 and amd64), and then they ship it.
And typically the AUR has whatever else you may happen to need, up to date as well. That was really what pushed me from gentoo to arch, maintaining portage overlays is a pain, and the official gentoo package repo never updates what packages _I_ think are important.
Back when I was compiling Linux on a 120MHz PA-7200 I would literally wait for days to compile KDE and a few other related packages, but with a modern CPU I now wait only a few minutes. I'm not sure that Gentoo has any real advantages over Arch but it's pleasant to use and it makes me feel good to tune my compiler flags and rebuild everything.
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Arch Linux. The control of Gentoo without sitting around for five days while everything is rebuilt.
Probably more ahead of the game on new shiny things than Gentoo, too. Arch is the only OS that I have seen where the difference between testing and stable is about two hours.
No, really. The official process requires two signoffs on each architecture (x86 and amd64), and then they ship it.
And typically the AUR has whatever else you may happen to need, up to date as well. That was really what pushed me from gentoo to arch, maintaining portage overlays is a pain, and the official gentoo package repo never updates what packages _I_ think are important.
Back when I was compiling Linux on a 120MHz PA-7200 I would literally wait for days to compile KDE and a few other related packages, but with a modern CPU I now wait only a few minutes. I'm not sure that Gentoo has any real advantages over Arch but it's pleasant to use and it makes me feel good to tune my compiler flags and rebuild everything.