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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ABS is very similar to ports. Its job is to build a package from source, and it does it. Simple I suppose, but useful.
How does PACMAN compare to APT? Well, I wouldn't say its better. Its equal. But you get this and ABS, which is why I like it.
One nice advantage is that the packages in the repositories are more up to date then even Debian Unstable. Its not that Arch uses BETA and CVS versions, but Debian sometimes falls behind (xfree86 4.2.x).
Thank you for the postive comments. I realize I bashed some distros a little in the beginning, but I didn't want people to post "Why not use Gentoo?", and similar.