OK, you convinced me to try it. It's probably closest to "Gentoo without compiling" distro, if that exists.
And it's simply great; Coloured text in console (as cool as Knoppix and Gentoo), rc.conf in Gentoo style, simple and short, relatively painless install. And I haven't found pacman to be slow at all (perhaps I don't have many that packages yet). I had to update kernel to get Centrino wireless working, but it's OK.
I will report more when I install GUI desktop and some more apps. It doesn't have as much packages as Gentoo, but it has almost all I need, which is really cool.
