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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>Even if the Arch user base is too small to adequately test
>new packages, why would someone decide to move packages that
>lack thorough testing to the mainstream repository?
Who knows? I remember when they released a KDE 3.2.2 update which was very broken (the kde su dialog didn't work, for example) and reading a comment from the maintainer saying he "hadn't bothered to test the packages really as it was only a point upgrade". He'd basically compiled it, packaged it and pushed it to the mirrors.
I mean, that's fair enough - it's only an amateur distro, and the users are still getting fantastic software for the price. But not really comparable to slack (or debian, ubuntu, suse...)