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Why Arch Linux?
Episode 22

Why Arch Linux?

In this episode we discuss how Arch Linux can help you as a developer.

The TMPDIR podcast · Cliff Brake and Khem Raj

June 19, 202331m 47s

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Outline:

  • how we got started with Arch Linux
  • features useful for developers
    • latest packages of everything
    • pacman is the fast, low-friction package manager
    • documentation is the best
    • containers can be used to issolate tools for older projects
  • discussion on stability
  • Yay AUR helper – we highly recommend this for managing AUR packages.

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