Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 30th Oct 2005 18:21 UTC
"The philosophy of Arch is simply simplicity. The user is in total control of the system. There are no flashy GUI installers - only a simple ncurses based installer that is easy to use and does its job well. No services ae started by default and their rc.conf is a thing of beauty - very simple to understand and maintain."
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Member since:I don't know, slackware is pretty fast. That, and it 1) doesn't have a repository-based package manager and 2) it comes with fairly nice defaults, e.g. udev, hotplug, and xorg.
It might not have a lot of packages available for it, but I make up for it by using a custom nautilus script that will compile an untarred source directory into a slackware package, and then I just double click on it to install.
-bytecoder
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Arch64 is still hard to install but for the moment ( http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Arch64_Install_page ) no 64bit distro beat(in speed and capacities) my arch 32bit ... didn't try the 64bit version of arch yet :-D
Anyway it's not too much complicated to install ( great wiki !! ) works and updates like a charm impressive !