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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Eugenia,
I read the article and did notice that you mention the need for hand-configuration. But it isn't just hand-configuration, it is the comparable unavailibity of packages, the throgoughness of the testing that security updates for Mandrake and Suse receive and the breadth of the respective online communities make these much more desirable distributions.
Reasonable people can disagree, so don't take my comments personally. They are not what I think of you, but what I think of the impact that the article you wrote may have on new Linux users.
In summary, I just profoundly and wholeheartedly disagree with the idea that Mandrake or Suse ship with broken packages. In my experience of using both professionally day in and day out, what you report does not square. Have there ever been bugs? Sure, that's why you test before deployment and if you are a home user, that's why you read reviews.
Eugenia, with great power comes great responsibility. This site is read by many people now and you owe it to yourself and to your audience to be as objective as possible. And when your readers take you to task, it is a compliment and shows that they take you seriously enough to bother offering a rebuttal.