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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It just makes us people who have DIFFERENT PRIORITIES.
i'd have to agree. OSnews consists of varying people from Windows newbies to expert programmers. you can't please everyone with every article. i personally have read OSnews since 2001 or 2002 and i've used unix shells since 1992. i certainly have different taste in distros from when i started.
for me, SuSE misconfigured X, installed a lot of unused and unneeded software, had RPM hell, and KDE / Gnome were bloated for my older machines. certainly some stuff has changed since I used SuSE, but nevertheless i consider other distros to be more fun and easier to tweak to my needs. certainly as a daily desktop, SuSE Personal or Pro is quite credible, but that's not the point.
everything from Solaris to OpenVMS has its place in the world, and there's no reason to ram RPM based distros down everyone's throats. it would incredibly naive to say that RPM is intrinsically superiour to apt-get and pacman, just as a simple example. i welcome the coverage of widely varying distros.