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 just downloaded Arch-0.5 and installed it just because i can...
Good distro, clean and no bloat...
i did compile the kernel from source omiting a couple of items that i do not use and adding one item i do use, sure makes it run lighter & fast, i like Arch better than Slackware especially since Slackware-9.1 is up to using two CDroms...
i will keep it in a extra disk partition and use it once in a while just to keep up with the geeky tech side of Linux, meanwhile i mostly use a easy disro named JAMD-Linux http://www.jamd-linux.com which is a Redhat-9 clone that was optimized for i686 and had the bloat trimmed off to make it all fit on a single CDrom & uses KDE for a default desktop (which i dont use) but it is 100% compatible with redhat packages so windowmaker & xfce4 installed nicely...