Binary incompatibility of Linux distributions

[marc]

Steven Susbauer said:

> I don't really understand how moving to Arch is going to help your
> stability issues (nor how Arch is not cutting edge... it is a rolling
> release, Ubuntu by design is *less* cutting edge).
> 
> I've had a long time experience with self-maintained (more or less)
> distros and eventually realized that having almost everything working
> out of the box allowed for better productivity than having to make
> everything work out of the box myself.

There are some distros available that provide management wrappers to Arch.

For kde, I've been testing Chakra. It took me no longer to install than 
Ubuntu and provides very good package management.

As I mentioned earlier, more stuff worked out of the box using Chakra 
than my recent Jaunty reinstall, whereas *everything* worked out of the 
box with Badger - all on the same machine.

Thus, I consider Arch (Chakra) to be more stable than Jaunty. Same as I 
considered Badger more stable than Debian (testing) when I moved to 
Ubuntu.

-- 
Best,
Marc

"Change requires small steps."