[arch-general] ArchBang and other derivates resemblance to Arch

[Jelle van der Waa]

On Mon, 2011-02-07 at 10:26 +0100, Olivier Keun | CAPSTONE wrote: 
> I also have no problem with other distros using Arch as a basis, but the
> problem is that it causes a pretty big influx of newbies who have no idea
> how to configure and maintain Arch since they installed a one-click
> installer.
> 
> The devs have mentioned before that we want to attract serious, competent
> linux users, and this goal is in danger of being compromised when Arch is
> more or less directly associated with distros like ArchBang.
> 
> This also addresses Jelle's remark; do we want to keep having to redirect
> users back to the ArchBang forums? Since they get told there to come to
> ours. ;-)
> 
Hmm a bit strange, in my opinion a new distro (fork or such) should deal
with their own support.

> Maybe it would be better if a more fundamental line is drawn between the
> two, such as the website design like Ionuț mentions. And a clear statement
> on the ArchBang website that it is _not_ an official Arch project.
> 
> 
> 2011/2/7 Ionuț Bîru <ibiru at archlinux.org>
> 
> > On 02/07/2011 10:51 AM, Olivier Keun wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> What are your thoughts about this? I'm hoping to get an official reaction
> >> from our dev-team, so we can avoid some of the confusion that is present
> >> now.
> >>
> >>
> > there is nothing wrong with this distro and others distros that have arch
> > as a base.
> >
> > Is good that the users are interested in this spins and that are
> > discussions about them on our forum.
> >
> > As a package maintainer, i'm more interested to work each other fixing
> > potentials bugs. This already happened with chakra team and on several
> > occasions i got emails from them. I won't reject any of this contributions
> > and i would help any time.
> >
> > What i don't like is their website theme. Is identically with ours and from
> > here is the confusion.
> >
> >
> >  [1] http://archbang.org/
> >> [2] https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=889066#p889066
> >> [3] https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Forum_Etiquette#How_to_Post
> >>
> >
> >
> > --
> > Ionuț
> >


-- 
Jelle van der Waa
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