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 don't think so. i've tried it year ago and slack didn't even get up. as for arch, i think it's superior. may be you have to write in some files, but it has:
a) dependencies using package system. i remember, i wanted install one package from linuxpackages.net. i couldn't find libiconv, because someone compiled this package on slack with dropline-gnome.
b) the best, the easist service managment of all distros i installed, and i installed many.
c) it boots faster then slack, so i'm surprised that you talk that you would install slack on k6 300. arch would be faster on that machine.
chechinstall is good, but it isn't much harder to write package creating script for arch.
i think, if arch was for i386, it would be more popular.