The Big Arch Linux Interview

If you ever wanted to get inside the mind of a Linux dev, here is your chance my friends. Judd Vinet of Arch Linux is interviewed by OSNews. All and all, the interview had some great questions that were covered.

1. What is the main reason that keeps you working on Arch with the same passion for years now?

Judd Vinet Judd Vinet: The thrill of creating something that other people use and like. I think that’s the main motivation for me now. Arch has already reached a point of “best-suited distribution for me” so it’s already fulfilled the goals set out when I started it. Now I find myself looking forward to adding features that other users will find helpful, and looking forward to working with other Archers. I’m truly proud of the calibre of our community and the way we’ve carved ourselves a little niche in the over-crowded distro contention.

Jan de Groot: Arch suits my needs, though it has its limitations sometimes. I switched to LFS and later gentoo for a while, but didn’t like them. After I switched back, I became an archlinux maintainer. Before becoming an official maintainer, I’ve done most of the work for new gnome releases to get into archlinux using unofficial beta repositories. I am still attracted to archlinux because it’s very up to date with new software releases. [Read the rest]