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'm surprised that you talk that you would install slack on k6 300.
That's because you don't know what you are talking about. The K6 is an i586 CPU, and so Arch doesn't work on it at all.
>i tried to go from 9.1 to current (right before 10.0 was
>released) and it was a disaster. tons of missing libs.
That's why I said that with swaret should be much better.