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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... could the lack of packagers be the fact that there are too many distros. My reasoning is that sooner or later the Developer pool will thin out and the more distros you have the lest likely you will be able to find people willing to maintain the same one program but on yet another Distro ...
... could the lack of packagers be the fact that there are too many distros. My reasoning is that sooner or later the Developer pool will thin out and the more distros you have the lest likely you will be able to find people willing to maintain the same one program but on yet another Distro ...
I am beginning to see this as a bit of a problem