On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 13:17 -0400, David Rosenstrauch wrote: > David C. Rankin wrote: > > So... continuing the story, I had heard about Arch some time ago as > > being a > > Slackware derivative, and I had always planned on trying it. So from > > distrowatch, I went to their top-ten, found slackware, then looked for Arch, > > found it, downloaded the .iso, and wound up here;-) So "Hello Arch!" > > Cool. > > Just FYI, though: Arch isn't a slackware derivative. IIRC, it's > actually derived from (or perhaps inspired by Crux Linux).
The only thing inherited from Crux is the PKGBUILD package format. Arch has changed so much in the past that our distribution doesn't look like any other distribution anymore.
