Linked by Ben Mazer on Wed 15th Oct 2003 20:58 UTC
A few months ago I was a Slackware Junkie. I loved it, and laughed at those who used 'more automatic' distributions (ok, I didn't actually laugh). Then Arch Linux 0.5 came out and I was very intrigued by it. I was getting tired of having to compile updated packages myself. 
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I've had Arch on my hard drive(s) for more than 6-months and it is the first distro to _stay_that_way_(!). It is, simply, a best-of-class distro for anyone who has contemplated the benefits of a LFS(Linux from Scratch) distro while wishing to leverage the efforts of others via a brilliantly simple/powerful package/build management system. Gentoo and Arch seem more a complement to each other than the reverse. Innovation with choice is the fruit to those who partake of either. Give me binaries for the basics and I'll build/re-build the rest, if need be. Control and access thru the entire install and setup of the system is re-freshing and important to me -- without the need to re-invent the wheel. All I can say about the 'community/developers' is that they're probably 50% or more the reason I stuck with the distro rather than gravitate on to the older or more mature Gentoo/LFS proper. Arch is a forward-thinking evolutionary spear-head for GNU/Linux and I'm love'n be'n a part of this process.
BTW: I'm a Linux nOOb. Only been using Linux for 1-year after 8-years of being a Windows zealot. I came to Arch via Red Hat; Mandrake; Vector; Slackware essentially.
Cheers.