Is this mailing list defunct?

Thu Oct 6 12:05:29 UTC 2011

The Arch website does a better job answering this than I could.

Is it stable?
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/FAQ#Q.29_Is_Arch_Linux_a_stable_distro.3F_Will_I_get_frequent_breakage.3F

My thoughts are that the user would be similarly responsible for the 
ongoing bloat level without any need for re-installing.

As an aside, with Ubuntu I've always done a fresh install every six 
months, and to be honest, I am tiring of that just to get updated packages.

On 10/05/2011 01:22 PM, satchitb at gmail.com wrote:
> Arch jokes aside, I always wonder why people find rolling release 
> popular. Surely it is less stable, with frequent updates? What about 
> the bloat issue? I don't know about you, but I find that Ubuntu gets a 
> little heavy and sluggish after a couple of cycles, so I install a new 
> version fresh rather than upgrade (the fact that upgrading releases 
> has been less than perfect is another matter altogether).