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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It would be nice to know how good ABS is when compared to FreeBSD's ports or Gentoo's portage. How many applications are there available in Arch's repositories?
And how is Pacman different from Debian's APT? Which has more applications in repositories? I've personally had positive experiences with APT - the way that FreeBSD, for instance, handles binary packages is nowhere near as sophisticated as Debian's APT. Perhaps the writer of this article didn't read APT's documentation properly and experienced problems for this reason?