Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Wed 3rd Nov 2004 07:07 UTC
To paraphrase one of the best "Star Trek: The Next Generation" episodes, "Best of Both Worlds", both Arch Linux and Slackware represent the best of all the OS worlds: the power of traditional Unix, the elegance of BSD and the ease of mind of Mac OS X. This is an article outlining the differences between --what I believe-- are the two best Linux distros around today. Mind you though, "best" doesn't always mean "easy".
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I haven't really tried Slack, but I won't replace my Arch with anything. The ability to make an ftp installation in order to have an updated system right from the start is awesome, though not unique to Arch. Easy package management and package creation, i686 optimization(how many people today use older than Pentium Pro computer?), better than decent documentation, community support on the forums. Like Slack, Arch is lead by one man, but he is not the only one to make the decision and this is a big difference. Like many people say, Arch is as a good as Gentoo and without the need to go through the compilation process for every installed package.
What Arch lacks for now is a little more stability in the official package repositories and a centralized community repo. The latter, according to latest Arch newsletter is already in progress.
Thank you, Judd and company!