Arch Linux keeps falling behind in package updates, basic packages like gdb and LLVM are newer in Fedora then in Arch, and Bash is newer in DEBIAN then in Arch. Why have package updates fallen so far behind?
Those are packages that lot of other packages rely on and so as a result just needs more testing. Sometimes Arch is faster, sometimes other distros are faster. This is relatively normal.
Worth noting that Arch just migrated to GitLab and changed its repo structure, while also deprecating Python 2.
I’d imagine that took some folks some time
All right, enough of this debian bashing, this isn’t 2007 anymore, they’re actually using up-to-date packages and kernels, you’ll need to find someone else to kick around now.
I … liked… arch for a while, but they broke a few times (library dependency failure, think it was expat) and I’m not in this just for smug.
Gentoo did the same, but probably going back to them as a hybrid distro, debian as the base, gentoo as the lxc working distro with some DE apps.
Have a ton of cores, gentoo should be fun.
Arch will end up like Gentoo.
OpenSUSE Tumbleweed is really good at keeping up with the latest packages while remaining really stable. Despite recieving gigabytes of updates since February when I first installed it I had a far better experience compared to the “stable” Ubuntu I was using before.
