[arch-general] Arch Linux Release Question

[Lukáš Jirkovský]

On 4 April 2010 00:01,  <fons at kokkinizita.net> wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 03, 2010 at 05:59:18PM -0400, Keith Hinton wrote:
>
>> First of all, if anyone is curious as to why I have posted to the
>> Arch-General mailing list, I'm mainly doing this, in case any of the
>> Arch Release team is actually hanging out on this list.
>> I was curious, seeing as the last Arch Linux release was in August of
>> last year, if there will be one for the lovely new year of 2010?
>
> There are no 'releases', Arch is continuously updated.
> When you install you get the latest versions of everything,
> not some release that was frozen some time ago.
> After installation update you system e.g. once every few
> weeks. This just takes a single command, and you never
> have to do full re-install.
>
> Ciao,
>
> --
> FA
>
> O tu, che porte, correndo si ?
> E guerra e morte !
>

You still need some install CD/Flash/whatewer to do the initial
install and the current one is rather old. I had a lot of headache
caused by the old installer, because I need kernel >=2.6.31 (IIRC
installer contains 2.6.29 or 2.6.30) to install Arch on my notebook.