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Originally Posted by Pottsy306
I do like Gentoo, however i prefer debain based systems, i find the apt-get solution to be the best, and theres some great Debain resources out there.
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That is why Debian-based distros are my favourite too. I find Ubuntu beeing only that is up to date to my taste, others (including Debian) are quite behind Ubuntu in version numbers (for example, Debian has currently GNOME 2.10 in unstable branch for at most a month and a half, while Ubuntu had it for five months in stable) to be compatible with Debian.
But it is still a great thing that you can easily install things like VLC, mplayer, MP3 support...
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Arch is much like slack and gentoo where you have to setup pretty much everything from the fstab file to building the xconfig file. It has up-to-date packages and if you want really bleeding edge you can take out the "current" repository from the pacman package tool and add the testing branch. As I stated in another post, Gentoo and Arch appear to be the easiest to keep updated. It's as simple as one command and your system is brought up to the latest version of everything and all currently installed packages are updated.
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A quick check gave me the idea that some packages there are a bit out of date, however, updates are pending since they have already been marked out of date. I'll give it a shot when 0.8 comes out.
Did I understand correctly - can I update Arch in the same way as Gentoo, updating it to the lastest regardless of the version?