Updating your OS

How often do you /prog/rammers update your operating system? If you use Windows or Mac OS X, fuck off you aren't a programmer.

>>7
I like it just fine. For me, packages are the most important part of a Linux distro: the ones you get by default, how you manage them and how good the repos are. I think Arch does these all great.

You just get a small set of core packages by default (no X etc). pacman does a good job at managing binary packages; my only problem with it was that it's slightly cryptic. ABS makes it piss easy to build binary packages from source.

There are a lot of ABS build scripts both in the official repos and the arch user repository. Binaries for x86 and x86-64 are maintained pretty well: software is usually updated within a few weeks from the official release. Flagging things out of date really seems to work; last week I flagged ed out of date because 1.0 was released about 5 days ago, and 1 day later it was updated.

>>8,25
Compare the ed situation above with the situation in Debian: the stable package has been out of date 1.5 year, the testing and unstable packages for 1 year. ( http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=ed&exact=1 )