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 have 5 distros loaded on hda. The fastest to boot is Plamo. The slowest is Redhat. Debian and Slack are about the same. All are loading the same daemons during the init process except Plamo, which is loading canna. Gentoo is 2nd fastest. Arch was about the same speed as Gentoo, 2nd fastest.
Loading kde, gentoo is the hands down winner. Starting mozilla goes to debian with gentoo the slowest. xfce4 starts fast on all. No noticeable difference among the distros starting gnome.
Not very scientific. Just my observations from daily use.
If you want Japanese support on Arch you will have to compile the packages yourself and edit all the profiles by hand. Same with slack but I am trying to cheat a bit. Plamo is a Japanese distro based on Slack 8.1. I have deleted the Arch partition and installed Plamo. I am slowly moving some of the Plamo packages over to my slack partition. I think I got the printing solved but have a ways to go with the inputting. Slack keeps breaking so I do a re-install and start over.