Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread David Menendez
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Thomas DuBuisson thomas.dubuis...@gmail.com wrote: Using bang patterns didn't help almost anything here. Using rem instead of mod made the time go from 45s to 40s. Now, using -fvia-C really helped (when I used rem but not using mod). It went down to 10s.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
I just start ghci from shell and do nothing else. In fact, i really donot know `Monad ((-) a) ` . Would you mind expplain it ? Yusaku Hashimoto wrote: Did you import the module includes the instance of Monad ((-) e) somewhere in your code loaded in ghci? I tried this on a fresh ghci

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
Why do you bother with the interior definition of f in there? Because i want to try a C code style not layout style without `do` syntax sugar . Yusaku Hashimoto wrote: fac n = let {  f = foldr (*) 1 [1..n] } in f Why do you bother with the interior definition of f in there? fac =

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread wren ng thornton
David Menendez wrote: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:56 AM, Thomas DuBuisson thomas.dubuis...@gmail.com wrote: Using bang patterns didn't help almost anything here. Using rem instead of mod made the time go from 45s to 40s. Now, using -fvia-C really helped (when I used rem but not using mod). It

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
zaxis z_a...@163.com writes: Why do you bother with the interior definition of f in there? Because i want to try a C code style not layout style without `do` syntax sugar . Haskell /= C, so stop trying to code as if it is. If you like C so much, then use C. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Grzegorz C
Hi, Rafael Almeida wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: Using bang patterns didn't help almost anything here. Using rem instead of mod made the time go from 45s to 40s. Now, using -fvia-C really helped (when I used rem but not using mod). It went

[Haskell-cafe] Internet game servers in Haskell?

2010-03-27 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Has anyone ever written a server in Haskell for managing live game-playing (any game) across the internet? -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Mitchell
Hi John, Any chance of seeing the benchmark? You're not the only one with an optimising compiler tucked away somewhere :-) I have one benchmark where I outperform GHC by 21 times, although saying it's artificial is a bit of an understatement... Thanks, Neil On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:27 PM,

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Randomized N-Queens

2010-03-27 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Ronald Guida wrote: Hi, I'm trying to solve the N-queens problem, but with a catch: I want to generate solutions in a random order. I know how to solve the N-queens problem; my solver (below) generates all possible solutions. What I am trying to do is generate solutions in a random

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
Of course, you are wrong ! C is VERY important for almost every programmer in the world! Why cannot C programmer use haskell ? And Why does haskell support C code style ? Ivan Miljenovic wrote: zaxis z_a...@163.com writes: Why do you bother with the interior definition of f in there?

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread Dietrich Epp
I think Miljenovic was asking about this (I removed explicit braces): fac n = let f = foldr (*) 1 [1..n] in f Which is strictly equivalent to: fac n = foldr (*) 1 [1..n] Translated into C, this is kind of like doing this: int add(int x, int y) { int sum = x + y;

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Jan-Willem Maessen
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:43 AM, Rafael Almeida almeida...@gmail.comwrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan b...@serpentine.com wrote: On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:46 AM, Rafael Cunha de Almeida

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Pom
On 10-03-26 11:50 PM, wren ng thornton wrote: Well GHC has an -O3[1], but it's not a good idea to use it. Some of the optimizations that -O3 does can result in slower code for particular programs. Whereas -O2 is safe and never results in pessimizations. Slightly off topic, but ACOVEA may

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Xiao-Yong Jin
On Fri, 26 Mar 2010 21:56:16 -0700, Thomas DuBuisson wrote: Using bang patterns didn't help almost anything here. Using rem instead of mod made the time go from 45s to 40s. Now, using -fvia-C really helped (when I used rem but not using mod). It went down to 10s. Bang patterns should have

[Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi all, from the names of people on the list it seems that all users here are males. Just out of curiosity are there any female users here, or are we guys only at the moment? Günther ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

[Haskell-cafe] Testing for valid data

2010-03-27 Thread michael rice
When I'm learning a new language I like to translate old programs into the new language as a test of my understanding. However, many of the old programs are from old programming texts, many written in the time of punch-cards for batch processing, and many containing significant amounts of code

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Ozgur Akgun
Why? Are you going to make dirty jokes or something :) Nevertheless, I guess you're right. There are very few females in most of the CS topics, and haskell is no different. I know at least 1 (one!) female who implemented software using haskell for her phd thesis, though. Cheers! 2010/3/27

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Daniel Fischer
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de Gesendet: 27.03.2010 16:14:57 An: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Betreff: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers? Hi all, from the names of people on the list it seems that all users here are males. Just out of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Andrew Coppin
Ozgur Akgun wrote: Nevertheless, I guess you're right. There are very few females in most of the CS topics, and haskell is no different. This is my experience too. Although note that apparently the world's very first computer programmer was apparently a woman...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Mihai Maruseac
I worked with a female student on a Haskell project last summer :) She's not into being member of a mailing list or a user group but she exists. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:51 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Ozgur Akgun wrote: Nevertheless, I guess you're right. There are

[Haskell-cafe] chp-plus doesn't install

2010-03-27 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I'm getting these errors (ghc 6.10.4 on Linux x86_64): Building chp-plus-1.1.0... [1 of 9] Compiling Control.Concurrent.CHP.Test ( Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.hs, dist/build/Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.o ) [2 of 9] Compiling Control.Concurrent.CHP.Console ( Control/Concurrent/CHP/Console.hs,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread James Russell
Maybe not on the list, but there certainly are in academia. I can think of several off the top of my head. 2010/3/27 Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de: Hi all, from the names of people on the list it seems that all users here are males. Just out of curiosity are there any female users here,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] chp-plus doesn't install

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Brown
Colin Paul Adams wrote: I'm getting these errors (ghc 6.10.4 on Linux x86_64): Building chp-plus-1.1.0... [1 of 9] Compiling Control.Concurrent.CHP.Test ( Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.hs, dist/build/Control/Concurrent/CHP/Test.o ) [2 of 9] Compiling Control.Concurrent.CHP.Console (

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Tillmann Rendel
Jan-Willem Maessen wrote: It's worth pointing out that there's a bit of bang-pattern mysticism going on in this conversation (which has not been uncommon of late!). A non-buggy strictness analyzer should expose the strictness of these functions without difficulty. Could the result of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Daniel Fischer daniel.is.fisc...@web.dewrote: -Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Günther Schmidt gue.schm...@web.de Gesendet: 27.03.2010 16:14:57 An: haskell-cafe@haskell.org Betreff: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers? Hi all, from the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Alberto G. Corona
To say this in scientific headline jargon, It´s a matter of division of work, time, and dimorphic fixation of abilities in the brain by natural selection trough dimorphic development of the brain of men and women by different genetic sequences. I don´t know any kind of tool more flexible and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread David Menendez
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Tillmann Rendel ren...@mathematik.uni-marburg.de wrote: Jan-Willem Maessen wrote: It's worth pointing out that there's a bit of bang-pattern mysticism going on in this conversation (which has not been uncommon of late!).  A non-buggy strictness analyzer should

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Gracjan Polak
Alberto G. Corona agocorona at gmail.com writes: Hope that this cold answer don't end this funny thread ;( Those concerned with Haskellers to Haskellinas ration can always employ this technique: http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/bio99/bio99128.htm Any volunteers? :) -- Gracjan

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread John Van Enk
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_HopperA heck of a lady. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Ozgur Akgun wrote: Nevertheless, I guess you're right. There are very few females in most of the CS

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/03/27 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: To say this in scientific headline jargon, it's a matter of division of work, time, and dimorphic fixation of abilities in the brain by natural selection trough dimorphic development of the brain of men and women by different genetic sequences.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread Yusaku Hashimoto
Hmm, When a ghci was started, there should be the only loaded module (Prelude.) And in both 6.10 and 6.12, such instance is not defined or exported in its Prelude. So please try `ghci -ignore-dot-ghci`. It invokes ghci without reading ~/.ghci and ./.ghci. And `((-) a)` is known as the Reader

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Peter Verswyvelen
So the first computer nerd was a women??!!! ;-) ;-) ;-) On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:06 PM, John Van Enk vane...@gmail.com wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper A heck of a lady. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:51 PM, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Ozgur Akgun

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Luke Palmer
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Peter Verswyvelen bugf...@gmail.com wrote: So the first computer nerd was a women??!!! ;-) ;-) ;-) Yeah, and she was so attractive that the entire male gender spent the next 50 years trying to impress her. Luke On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 9:06 PM, John Van Enk

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Alberto G. Corona
2010/3/27 Jason Dusek jason.du...@gmail.com 2010/03/27 Alberto G. Corona agocor...@gmail.com: To say this in scientific headline jargon, it's a matter of division of work, time, and dimorphic fixation of abilities in the brain by natural selection trough dimorphic development of the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread John Meacham
My friend named her cat Haskell after the language :) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈ - http://notanumber.net/ ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Testing for valid data

2010-03-27 Thread Ketil Malde
michael rice nowg...@yahoo.com writes: When I'm learning a new language I like to translate old programs into the new language as a test of my understanding. However, many of the old programs are from old programming texts, many written in the time of punch-cards for batch processing, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Vitali Xevet
I bet there are some people here who think women are very idiot to be knowledgeable about haskell. Cheers ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Günther Schmidt
Hi guys (and I mean it), so, in short, no female haskellers ... Bare one which sent me an email directly, but it looks like she's not ready to come out of the closet yet. Günther ___ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Neil Davies
If you are looking for a real first - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_Lovelace - she is even credited with writing the first algorithm for machine execution. On 27 Mar 2010, at 20:06, John Van Enk wrote: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper A heck of a lady. On Sat, Mar 27, 2010

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Testing for valid data

2010-03-27 Thread michael rice
Hi Ketil, Good point, but I think it side-steps the question. Haskell coughs on a data value. Do we grep our data, finding and fixing the offender, or build extensive data tests into our application code? Michael --- On Sat, 3/27/10, Ketil Malde ke...@malde.org wrote: From: Ketil Malde

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread wren ng thornton
Alberto G. Corona wrote: because math abilities are not a -primary- reason for survival. Tools engineering and mastering is. I don't see the difference. Being able to use a lever, wheel, pulley, fire,... is obviously helpful for survival. But intellectual tools like mathematics, logic, and

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread wren ng thornton
wren ng thornton wrote: Alberto G. Corona wrote: because math abilities are not a -primary- reason for survival. Tools engineering and mastering is. I don't see the difference. (That is, the difference between CS and mathematics. Conversely, I don't see the similarity between physical

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Leon Smith
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 1:56 PM, Jason Dagit da...@codersbase.com wrote:  For some reason it started out as a male dominated field.  Let's assume for cultural reasons.  Once it became a male dominated field, us males  unknowingly made the work and learning environments somewhat hostile or

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:25 AM, Neil Mitchell ndmitch...@gmail.com wrote: Hi John, Any chance of seeing the benchmark? You're not the only one with an optimising compiler tucked away somewhere :-) Neil, for some reason John's reply didn't thread with the rest of the thread. Probably

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Sean Leather
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 23:09, Leon Smith wrote: I've heard rumors that in the early days of programming, that women were in the majority, or at least they represented a much greater proportion of programmers than they do now. They're not just rumors:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Rafael Cunha de Almeida
John Meacham wrote: Here are jhc's timings for the same programs on my machine. gcc and ghc both used -O3 and jhc had its full standard optimizations turned on. jhc: ./hs.out 5.12s user 0.07s system 96% cpu 5.380 total gcc: ./a.out 5.58s user 0.00s system 97% cpu 5.710 total ghc:

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Lennart Augustsson
It's important to switch from mod to rem. This can be done by a simple abstract interpretation. I'm nore sure if it's jhc or gcc that does this for jhc. -- Lennart On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 10:30 PM, Rafael Cunha de Almeida almeida...@gmail.com wrote: John Meacham wrote: Here are jhc's

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Jason Dusek
2010/03/27 Leon Smith leon.p.sm...@gmail.com: I've heard rumors that in the early days of programming, that women were in the majority, or at least they represented a much greater proportion of programmers than they do now. I seem to recall that this started to change sometime in the 60s. Of

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Rafael Cunha de Almeida
Lennart Augustsson wrote: It's important to switch from mod to rem. This can be done by a simple abstract interpretation. I'm nore sure if it's jhc or gcc that does this for jhc. It's not just adding rem. Ghc still runs much slower using rem. It's only when switching to -fvia-C and using

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread Maciej Piechotka
On Sat, 2010-03-27 at 04:28 -0700, zaxis wrote: Of course, you are wrong ! C is VERY important for almost every programmer in the world! Hmm. We don't deny that C is important. However importance of hammer does not make screwdriver unimportant. While you can say that you can use screwdriver

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Christopher Lane Hinson
Many of you may be interested in reading the Geek Feminism blog and wiki: http://geekfeminism.wikia.com/wiki/Geek_Feminism_Wiki http://geekfeminism.org/ It's not necessary to agree with everything, or to debate it, just try to put yourself in someone else's shoes. Friendly, --Lane

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread John Meacham
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 07:30:30PM -0300, Rafael Cunha de Almeida wrote: John Meacham wrote: Here are jhc's timings for the same programs on my machine. gcc and ghc both used -O3 and jhc had its full standard optimizations turned on. jhc: ./hs.out 5.12s user 0.07s system 96% cpu 5.380

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC

2010-03-27 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 28/03/2010, at 01:36, Jan-Willem Maessen wrote: It's worth pointing out that there's a bit of bang-pattern mysticism going on in this conversation (which has not been uncommon of late!). A non-buggy strictness analyzer should expose the strictness of these functions without difficulty.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 27/03/2010, at 05:27, John Meacham wrote: Here are jhc's timings for the same programs on my machine. gcc and ghc both used -O3 and jhc had its full standard optimizations turned on. jhc: ./hs.out 5.12s user 0.07s system 96% cpu 5.380 total gcc: ./a.out 5.58s user 0.00s system 97%

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Are there any female Haskellers?

2010-03-27 Thread Jeremy Shaw
One study suggests that the perceived work environment is too geeky: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34437233/ns/technology_and_science-science/ I also suspect that much Haskell promotion is targeted towards male oriented sites, which does not help things: http://www.quantcast.com/slashdot.org

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 28/03/2010, at 11:07, John Meacham wrote: I have not thoroughly checked it, but I think there are a couple things going on here: It could also be worthwhile to float out (i*i + j*j) in rangeK instead of computing it in every loop iteration. Neither ghc nor gcc can do this; if jhc can then

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
I just mean syntax. For example. the following code snippet is C-style. In vim, i can use `shift+%` to jump between `{' and `}', and so on. hitSSQ hitNum = do { nums - fmap str_ints_pick $ readFile ssqNum.txt; forM_ nums (\n - do { let { hitB = if (n!!6 == hitNum!!6) then 1

Re: [Haskell-cafe] GHC vs GCC vs JHC

2010-03-27 Thread Roman Leshchinskiy
On 28/03/2010, at 09:47, Lennart Augustsson wrote: It's important to switch from mod to rem. This can be done by a simple abstract interpretation. Also, changing the definition of rem from a `rem` b | b == 0 = divZeroError | a == minBound b == (-1) =

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
thanks for your answer! However, i still feel the following code snippets have different code style. 1. C-style winSSQ count noRed noBlue = do { let {yesRed=[1..33] \\ noRed; yesBlue=[1..16] \\ noBlue}; ps - picoSec; setStdGen (mkStdGen $ fromInteger ps); result - pick_ssq_nums

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Why is it so different between 6.12.1 and 6.10.4_1 ?

2010-03-27 Thread zaxis
Both 6.10 and 6.12 use same .ghci ! %cat ~/.ghci :cd /media/G/www/qachina/db/doc/money :l Money %cat Money.hs|grep import import System( getArgs ) import System.Random import System.IO import System.Time import Text.Printf (printf) import Text.Regex import Data.List import Data.Time.Calendar

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Internet game servers in Haskell?

2010-03-27 Thread Jason Dagit
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 3:14 AM, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.ukwrote: Has anyone ever written a server in Haskell for managing live game-playing (any game) across the internet? I haven't yet, but I saw someone had a simple MUD-like game engine a few years ago. I don't know if Frag

[Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Chris Dornan
Hi, I am choosing a Linux distribution for a production Haskell project and would would normally just go with Debian (pedigree, stability, and of course Haskell Platfom included) but CentOS is in the frame. Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular distribution? A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot of links to the Arch packages on Hackage. It might be

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Haskell-friendly Linux Distribution

2010-03-27 Thread Ivan Lazar Miljenovic
Jeff Wheeler j...@nokrev.com writes: On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 11:11 PM, Chris Dornan ch...@chrisdornan.com wrote: Are there any particularly strong reasons for preferring or avoiding any particular distribution? A bunch of stuff is packaged by dons for Arch; you can see a lot of links to the