Comment Re:Arch Linux: what's the differentiating factor? (Score 1) 103
For starters? The init system.
Otherwise? The packages in general. It takes something so long to make it through the repo approval system that it's obsolete by the time it hits mainline. For some that is probably a bonus, but for me that's just a pain in the arse, cuz then I have to go and find either a repo that bolts on or a deb and the appropriate dependencies. For those that argue that AptoSid, or unstable/testing etc are the answer... well my forays into AptoSid and unstable/testing were less stable than Gentoo/Sabayon... So, I tried each of the porridges and found Arch seems to be in the sweet spot.
(Until RedHat/Fedora abandons RPM, I will not touch them... though I am forced to use RHCE at work, and yum at least seems reasonable these days even if the RHCE repo is archaic.)
Also, the