csant/log

rPath Linux is designed to be a stable, high-quality, relatively "vanilla" distribution that closely tracks upstream stable packages and is easy to make a derivative distribution from

• Binary and source packages are available;
  
• Vanilla packages, thus unpatched (did I mention that I hate distros patching their packages?);
  
• rPath is one of the fastest at updating packages in its repository;
  
• Conary (the package management system, or rather the "distributed software management system") promises to be extremely flexible.
  

• Ubuntu or Kubuntu (or any other *buntu) as well as any other Debian (based) distro are far too heavily patched, and so is Gentoo - I really am not interested in patched distros.
  
• Slackware might be somewhat better in that respect, but there I miss the bleeding edge.
  
• Arch is a distro I have been having in mind as an option, and for a long time I was undecided between Arch and rPath, until I finally decided for the latter, for now - but Arch is still a distro that looks interesting and its development is worth being followed.
  
• If I'd be to move away from Linux, I'd rather switch to Plan 9 than to other UNIX systems.