On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Timothy Rice <t.rice@ms.unimelb.edu.au>wrote:
As a rolling release, Arch is usually the leader of adopt new technology. But now, Arch is falling behind Debian now. So sad.
Arch Linux is also about simplicity. For me, this is more important than the rolling-releaseness and bleeding-edgeness. If Arch lags behind Debian, that is fine by me; some things that Debian does by default I don't like because of their complexity. Also keep in mind, once upon a time, Debian was the bleeding edge distro; if Debian wants to reclaim that title then more power to Debian.
I like both Debian and Arch, and I say, let's not get too stressed if Debian is occasionally more cutting edge. It's all still Linux, and Arch can only thrive on a little competition of this nature.
Arch is still a simple system that you can still build from the ground up (and in fact the installer has gone 'back to the roots' recently). I don't think this change makes arch any less KISS, IMO.