Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by Sirupsen on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @09:53AM
(#1301531)
I'm sorry if you feel like I point them towards my "pet OS". I should have stated more clearly there are other alternatives, and this only is my opinion.
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Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by hvs on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @02:12PM
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What does Arch Linux have to do with developing Ruby?
Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by blasdel on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @02:29PM
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Don't have to wait 6 months and upgrade everything to get slightly newer versions of packages. The packages are pretty direct from upstream instead of being patched and split apart by the distro.
Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by blacksmythe on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @11:32AM
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What advantages does Arch Linux have over Ubuntu?
Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by Macha on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @03:27PM
(#1302448)
The main one: Packages don't end up 6 (or more) months out of date between updates.
The maybe a advantage (if you agree with the OP)/maybe a disadvantage(if you like me, don't): Much more manual configuration.
Re:What I wish a Ruby programmer had told me one year ago..
by foldr on Wednesday April 28, 2010 @10:44PM
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Been a while since I used Ubuntu, but you can typically install newer packages from pre-release versions. You're not locked in to the 6 month upgrade cycle.
I think it's a pretty good model. For 90% of the installed software there's really no reason to update packages more than every 6 months.