"Based in part on the minimalist CRUX distribution, Arch Linux was launched by Judd Vinet in March 2002"
Nitpick correction: Judd Vinet created Arch from scratch in 2002 based on the minimalistic ideas of CRUX, but Arch Linux was built from scratch, and pacman was written by Judd in C.
The article is also somewhat misleading -- toting this release as having a ton of new features over the previous release. Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution and any sane Archer will immediately completely update their system after a fresh install, so none of these features are really new to any existing Arch Linux user.
The syslinux installation functionality from the installer, as well as BTRFS support from the installer, is new and good to see.
Arch moved to Linux days after 3.0.0 was released. It's nice to use a distribution where you can have the latest versions of everything for testing and development. I've been using it for six or seven years and still prefer it on my desktop and (not-so-mission-critical) servers.
Nitpick correction: Judd Vinet created Arch from scratch in 2002 based on the minimalistic ideas of CRUX, but Arch Linux was built from scratch, and pacman was written by Judd in C.
The article is also somewhat misleading -- toting this release as having a ton of new features over the previous release. Arch Linux is a rolling release distribution and any sane Archer will immediately completely update their system after a fresh install, so none of these features are really new to any existing Arch Linux user.
The syslinux installation functionality from the installer, as well as BTRFS support from the installer, is new and good to see.
Arch moved to Linux days after 3.0.0 was released. It's nice to use a distribution where you can have the latest versions of everything for testing and development. I've been using it for six or seven years and still prefer it on my desktop and (not-so-mission-critical) servers.