"Manjaro is a user-friendly Linux distribution based on the independently developed Arch operating system. Within the Linux community, Arch itself is renowned for being an exceptionally fast, powerful, and lightweight distribution that provides access to the very latest cutting edge – and bleeding edge – software. However, Arch is also aimed at more experienced or technically-minded users. As such, it is generally considered to be beyond the reach of those who lack the technical expertise (or persistence) required to use it. For newcomers, a user-friendly installer is provided, and the system itself is designed to work fully ‘straight out of the box’ with features including: * Pre-installed desktop environments * Pre-installed graphical applications to easily install software and update your system, and * Pre-installed codecs to play multimedia files" -- source: http://manjaro.org/2014/06/09/manjaro-0-8-10-is-online/ Anybody feel like giving it a spin and report at the next meeting? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Hi all, Yes, I did give it a spin last year. Mixed thoughts. If you very used to apt-get and dpkg, it feels a bit frustrating to learn the pacman way of doing things. At the time, there was a major migration going on the repositories and so things didn't work that well "out of the box". My conclusion was that I'd still stick with kubuntu for now. However, last time I checked, my brother-in-law was a firm convert. -- source: http://manjaro.org/2014/06/09/manjaro-0-8-10-is-online/ Anybody feel like giving it a spin and report at the next meeting? Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174 _______________________________________________ wlug mailing list | wlug(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Unsubscribe: http://list.waikato.ac.nz/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Yes, I did give it a spin last year. Mixed thoughts. If you very used to apt-get and dpkg, it feels a bit frustrating to learn the pacman way of doing things.
At the time, there was a major migration going on the repositories and so things didn't work that well "out of the box". My conclusion was that I'd still stick with kubuntu for now.
However, last time I checked, my brother-in-law was a firm convert.
Would your brother-in-law mind coming to the next meeting and present it? :-) Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
Would your brother-in-law mind coming to the next meeting and present it? :-)
If we flew him up from Wellington he might be keen.
Bummer... Cheers, Peter -- Peter Reutemann, Dept. of Computer Science, University of Waikato, NZ http://www.cms.waikato.ac.nz/~fracpete/ Ph. +64 (7) 858-5174
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