Anyone tried Lunar-linux yet?

http://lunar-linux.org/
Seems like an interesting distro, I'm still hesitant to try it though. I am satisfied with arch, but I always wondered about those compile everyting distros. I've tried and use gentoo, and I just didn't like it. But for some reason lunar linux is catching my eye. If anyone has tried ti, I'd love to hear a quick review . From what I understand, in a lot of ways it's like arch linux, nothing but a base system. The major difference is that everything is self-compiled.
Last edited by twiistedkaos (2007-08-31 10:16:42)

to take this a bit further and , only partly, justify my first reply
a compiling distro imho needs to have 2 things
a failry large userbase
and EXCELLENT documentation
i dont think a linux distro has yet achieved both, not even gentoo in its glory days
what comes closer would be freebsd but that aint linux
taking the above into consideration i would prefer compiling myself all packages in arch which is simple and its easy to customise and build the packages just the way u want em to. plus its a system u are familiar with
Last edited by dolby (2007-08-31 18:44:40)

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I've tried it a couple of times, but I've never gotten it to work, always with installing something some dependency couldn't be met because it couldn't be found on the server. Too bad too because I really thought it could be interesting...
Oh well, now I've found arch
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>
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>
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