Crux Linux : the origins of Arch Linux?

So in this awesome linux timeline I found that Arch Linux was a fork from Crux Linux... now I dont have any idea how was Crux Linux, because I never tried it, I think the distro never was very popular, so I was wondering if someone would explain how was the origins of Arch Linux and its relation with Crux Linux
Last edited by delphinen (2007-01-30 03:22:08)

I've used Crux before I ever heard about Arch........It's not too bad, just that it's a one-man show with a gathering of faithful users.........Per Liden, the author and developer of Crux, was not interested in pleasing the general public, which is why it never became popular............He just developed it mainly for his personal tastes and anyone who wanted to use his selection was free to do so, and can make any other pkgs they want with the 'pkgmk' script..........Today, Per is retired from from Crux development and handed it over to a core team......
@Husio
Anyway, if you don't use abs/aur you won't like CRUX becouse there's only some base packages.
Not entirely true........The official pkgs are contained in three separate repositories - core, opt, and contrib - and "opt" and "contib" contain quite a few packages......
Then there's a lot of community-based user repos, usually named after the person who is sharing it to the others.........You can see who the maintainers are in the 'Maintainer' column of that repository link above.......Although now I see there are a few more categories maintained at the main ports database, while the rest are maintianed at each individual's site.........I suppose more changes will happen, now that Per has "retired"....... ;-)
If I was to compare it to Arch, today, I would give Arch a higher rating......Arch has come a long way in the last few years, and is, IMHO, ahead of Crux in maintainability..........I've always been a devoted Slackware user, for the most part, and have tried a few other distros (including Arch) in the past, but always went back to Slack.........However, currently I'm switching to Arch as my desktop distro of choice because it's at the point I consider it better, overall, than Slack (which, to me, is saying a lot about how far along Arch has come)...... :-D
---thegeekster

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