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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Slackware users with an itch to scratch will probably like Arch. Particularly those that use swaret and linuxpackages.net to keep up to date with the latest packages, i.e. those slackware users that install only binaries. These users will like Arch a lot. (only my opinion folks, not a blanket statement of fact)
Foreign language support, particularly cjk, is not a strength of Arch. But, if you are a Slackware user and your primary language is English, then Arch is definately worth a few hours of time to test and get more familiar with. I believe that many of you will switch and be happy that you did.